Monit Install

README.md

1. yum install monit
2. Configure /etc/monit/monitrc - see example below
3. Add init.d for monit - https://gist.github.com/tomkersten/630554
4. Add monit config for services - see example below
5. then you call monit start foo to start foo service w/ monit wrapper

Reference: http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html Config Examples: http://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/ConfigurationExamples

foo.cfg

check process foo # the monit service name 
  with pidfile </path/to/pid>
  start = "/etc/init.d/foo start"
  stop = "/etc/init.d/foo stop"
  

monitrc

set init
set daemon 2 # This is the # of seconds to poll the services

# Sets the HTTP support to bind to localhost only, needed for the CLI to talk to the daemon
set httpd port 2812 
    address localhost
    allow localhost

include /etc/monit.d/*.cfg