Difference between revisions of "Monit"

Revision as of 03:49, 19 August 2011

Used to monitor processes on UNIX systems.

http://mmonit.com/monit/

Install

CentOS

yum install monit
chkconfig --levels 235 monit on

Ubuntu

apt-get install monit

Edit Monit /etc/default/monit and set the "startup" variable to 1 in order to allow monit to start

Configure

Fail2Ban

cd /etc/monit.d
echo "" > fail2ban

nano fail2ban Add the following to the file and save it.

check process fail2ban with pidfile /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid
  group services
  start program = "/etc/init.d/fail2ban start"
  stop  program = "/etc/init.d/fail2ban stop"
  if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

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