monit sumary not working when domain specified in use address

Question

When I specify an actual domain in my monitrc file like so:

set httpd port 2812 and
    use address domain.com # only accept connection from localhost
    allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
    allow USER:PASS        # require user 'USER' with password 'PASS'
    allow @monit           # allow users of group 'monit' to connect (rw)
    allow @users readonly  # allow users of group 'users' to connect readonly

I'm not able to connect to monit locally through telnet or view any output using the 'monit summary' command.

When I change domain.com to localhost everything works fine. I'd like to have external access to monit especially since I'm using m/monit.

Did you try "use address IP" where IP is the IP address of the host? — cjc, May 04 '12 at 22:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '12 at 23:58

If I'm reading the monit documentation correctly:

If you use this method together with a host list, then only clients from the listed hosts will be allowed to connect to the Monit http server and each client will be asked to provide a username and a password.

the allow localhost line will prevent anyone from connecting that isn't connecting from localhost.

monit sumary not working when domain specified in use address

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