Monit

Ansible role for configuring Monit. Sample usage see example.yml.

Install

Install this role with ansible-galaxy.

$ ansible-galaxy install pgolm.monit

Requirements

An Ansible ready host.

Role Variables

• monit_cycle: Time between checks in seconds. Defaults to 120.
• monit_log_destination: Where the log will be written. Can be a path to a file or "syslog", which will write to syslog daemon. Defaults to /var/log/monit.log.
• monit_state_file: State file path. Defaults to /var/lib/monit/state.
• monit_id_file: Id file path. Defaults to /var/lib/monit/id.
• monit_eventqueue_dir: Event queue directory path. It is only used when this variable is defined. Defaults to /var/lib/monit/events.
• monit_eventqueue_slots: Event queue slots. It is only used when monit_eventqueue_dir is defined. Defaults to 100.
• monit_services: List of hashes of services to be monitorized by monit.
  • name: Name of the process or host.
  • type: Type of monitorization, "process", "process_by_name", "host", "filesystem" and "system" are supported.
  • target: Target of monitorization. Should be a pidfile, processname, an address or undefined, depending on the type of service.
  • start: Command that starts the service. Optional.
  • stop: Command that stop the service. Optional.
  • user: Linux username of the user starting the program. Optional.
  • group: Linux group of the user starting the program. Optional.
  • rules: List of rules to be included in this service. Optional.
• monit_service_delete_unlisted: Remove existing service monitorization configurations not declared in the services. Defaults to true.
• monit_mail_enabled: Enable mail alerts. Defaults to false.
• monit_mailserver_host: Mailserver host address. Defaults to localhost.
• monit_mailserver_port: Mailserver host port. Defaults to 25.
• monit_mailserver_user: Username for authentication on mailserver. Optional
• monit_mailserver_password: Password for authentication on mailserver. Optional
• monit_mailserver_timeout: Timeout for mailserver connection. Defaults to 5.
• monit_mailserver_ssl_version: If defined, monit will use this algorithm for SSL connection to the mail server. Possible values are SSLAUTO, SSLV2, SSLV3, TLSV1, TLSV11, TLSV12.
• monit_alert_addresses: List of mail addresses where the alerts will be sent to.
• monit_alert_mail_format: A hash of options for mail-format.
  • from: Sender mail address.
  • reply-to: A reply-to mail address.
  • subject: Mail subject.
  • message: Mail message body.
• monit_webinterface_enabled: Enable monit web interface. Defaults to true.
• monit_webinterface_bind: IP address to bind web interface. Defaults to 0.0.0.0 (listen for external requests).
• monit_webinterface_port: Port for web interface. Defaults to 2812.
• monit_webinterface_rw_group: Define group of users allowed to read and write on web interface. It is only applied when defined and is empty by default.
• monit_webinterface_r_group: Define group of users allowed to read on web interface. It is only applied when defined and is empty by default.
• monit_webinterface_acl_rules: List of ACL rules for the web interface, such as "localhost" or "hauk:password". It is only applied when defined and is empty by default. You should probably define at least one for the httpd service to start.

Custom facts

This role writes a monit_services_configured on /etc/ansible/facts.d/monit.fact in order to keep track of the configured monitors between different plays. This helps us removing unused monitors.

LICENSE

MIT

CONTRIBUTE

Feel free to contribute by add issue and pull request.

CONTRIBUTORS

• Amnay
• Anthony Dmitriyev
• byteshiva
• Eduardo de Vera Toquero
• Jordi Clariana
• Manuel Tiago Pereira
• Markus Klepp
• Panagiotis Moustafellos
• Peter Golm
• Romain Gonord
• Roozbeh Farahbod
• Svend Vanderveken
• Tom Naessens
• vkill