Service Monitoring

Monit is a small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring systems. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

For ASTPP we can configure apache,freeswitch and mysql services to monitor.

Installation

For CentOS
yum install monit

For Debian
apt-get install monit

Configurations:

Enable Web Interface in Monit

Monit also provided an web interface to view services and processes status. To enable monit web interface,
edit configuration file ( For CentOS /etc/monit.conf & For Debian System /etc/monit/monitrc ) and modify following
lines as per your server information's

set httpd port 2812 and
use address localhost
allow localhost
allow admin:monit
allow @monit
allow @users readonly

Configure Monit To Monitor Services

1) Nginx:








2) MySQL
    check process mysqld with pidfile /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
    start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
    stop program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"
    group resources
    if cpu > 60% for 2 cycles then alert
    if cpu > 80% for 5 cycles then restart


3) Freeswitch
    check process freeswitch with pidfile /usr/local/freeswitch/run/freeswitch.pid
    start program = "/etc/init.d/freeswitch start"
    stop program = "/etc/init.d/freeswitch stop"
    if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
    if cpu > 60% for 2 cycles then alert
    if cpu > 80% for 5 cycles then alert
    if totalmem > 2000.0 MB for 5 cycles then restart
    if children > 2500 then restart

Configuration for email notification

# set mailserver mail.bar.baz, # primary mailserver
# backup.bar.baz port 10025, # backup mailserver on port 10025
# localhost # fallback relay

set mailserver localhost

# set alert sysadm@foo.bar # receive all alerts
# set alert manager@foo.bar only on { timeout } # receive just service-
# # timeout alert

set alert your@email.com

It will notify the status of services in email which are configured in configuration file.

Start service

Now start the monit service
# service monit start