We only want to be alerted if the service fails to restart. Is this possible?
That is if, on the first check the service is down then restart it and don't bother to send us an alert; but if the service is still down after two cycles then we want to know.
Tried if not exist for 2 cycles then alert
but found that whilst we'd get an alert it would not try to restart.
So then tried the below but same result: sends an alert without attempting a restart.
check process mysql with pidfile /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
stop program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"
if not exist then restart
if not exist for 2 cycles then alert
Can we set it to only send the alert when pain persists?