Installing and configuring monit to monitor your server(s)
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Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
Pre Install Step:
yum install openssl*
Step 1: Installing monit from Source
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://mmonit.com/monit/dist/monit-5.0.3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf monit-5.0.3.tar.gz
cd monit-5.0.3
./configure –sysconfdir=/etc/monit/
make && make install
Step 1.1: Cleanup source files after working install
rm -Rf /usr/local/src/monit* && cd
Step 2: Create Monit config file
mkdir /etc/monit/
mkdir /etc/monit/cfg
cd /etc/monit/
nano -w /etc/monit/monitrc
Step 2.1: Paste in this text
set daemon 60
set logfile /var/log/monit.log
set mailserver localhost
set alert change@me.net# Set mail notification options:
mail-format {
from: monit@changeme.net
subject: $SERVICE $EVENT at $DATE
message: Monit $ACTION $SERVICE at $DATE on $HOST,Yours sincerely,
AI
}## Inbuilt httpd
set httpd port 3500 and
allow admin:monit## httpd access control
allow localhost
#allow 10.0.0.10
# Put your Service config in /etc/monit/cfg/, They will be included.
include /etc/monit/cfg var thickboxL10n = { next: "Next >", prev: "< Prev", image: "Image", of: "of", close: "Close" }; try{convertEntities(thickboxL10n);}catch(e){};