Running Monit 5.4 on an Ubuntu server. When I use monit reload, it seems that it restarts monitored services (Tomcat 7 in this situation). Is it the expected behavior? Documentation says :
reload - Reinitialize a running Monit daemon, the daemon will reread its configuration, close and reopen log files.
I would expect it not to restart any service but only reload it's configuration, this way I could change email alerts and other stuffs.
This is the output of monit status
The Monit daemon 5.4 uptime: 15h 0m
Process 'tomcat7'
status Running
monitoring status Monitored
pid 38842
parent pid 1
uptime 14h 30m
children 0
memory kilobytes 3445964
memory kilobytes total 3445964
memory percent 10.4%
memory percent total 10.4%
cpu percent 14.8%
cpu percent total 14.8%
port response time 0.018s to localhost:80 [HTTP via TCP]
data collected Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:39:36
System 'mytiny.company.net'
status Running
monitoring status Monitored
load average [0.32] [0.49] [0.57]
cpu 15.5%us 0.2%sy 0.0%wa
memory usage 8217684 kB [25.0%]
swap usage 14980 kB [0.7%]
data collected Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:39:36
And this is the Tomcat monitoring configuration in monitrc
# Tomcat
check process tomcat7 with pidfile /var/run/tomcat7.pid
start program = "/etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart"
stop program = "/etc/init.d/tomcat7 stop"
if cpu > 60% for 2 cycles then alert
if cpu > 80% for 5 cycles then restart
if failed port 80 and protocol http
then restart
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
Rest of the file is default, except the check interval that is 60s. Tomcat do runs on 80 port.
