Installing monit

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Product Name : MONIT
Product Version : 5.0-beta3
Homepage : http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/
Description : 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.



Step 1: Installing monit from Source

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/beta/monit-5.0_beta3.tar.gz
tar -zxvf monit-5.0_beta3.tar.gz
cd monit-5.0_beta3
./configure --without-ssl --sysconfdir=/etc/monit/
make && make install



Step 2: Download config

mkdir /etc/monit/
mkdir /etc/monit/cfg
cd /etc/monit/
wget --output-document=monitrc http://www.securecentos.com/files/monit/monit.conf
chmod 700 /etc/monit/monitrc



Step 3: Creating Log file

touch /var/log/monit.log



Step 4: Making monit run as a service

cd /etc/init.d/
wget --output-document=monit http://www.securecentos.com/files/monit/monit.d
chmod +x /etc/init.d/monit
chkconfig --levels 235 monit


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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 September 2008 16:12 )