Monit daemon interval setting…global or service-level?

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I’m configuring monit on Ubuntu 11.04. In monitrc, the following setting controls the interval at which the monit daemon monitors services…

set daemon 120

Is this a global setting? If I want to check different services, such as permissions on a directory and an http service, how can I configure monit to check directory permissions every week while pinging the http service every 5 minutes?

I understand it’s possible to use the -d interval option when executing monit, but according to the documentation, this checks services only once, then exits, without repeating; not helpful for my needs since I need it to continuously execute.

Answer

You can set the per-test interval in cycles.

See this similar ServerFault.com question for some more information.

ie: if your interval is 300 seconds you could run an http check every cycle while running the weekly check every 2016 cycles.

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