monit error in ubuntu

April 24, 2014 20.1k views
mzuker
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Hi there, i followed this steps: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-configure-monit and installed and configured monit, editing the file:/etc/monit/monitrc i added this lines to check for this services: —————— check process apache with pidfile /run/apache2.pid start program = "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" with timeout 60 seconds stop program = "/etc/init.d/apache2 stop" check process mysqld with pidfile /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start" stop program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop" check process proftpd with pidfile /var/run/proftpd.pid start program = "/etc/init.d/proftpd start" stop program = "/etc/init.d/proftpd stop" if failed port 21 protocol ftp then restart if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout —————— But monit is not running, when i run the command: monit start all i get: monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support? monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support? monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support? monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support?
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asb MOD April 24, 2014
You need to set up the webservice first. To have only available over localhost, append the following to "/etc/monit/monitrc" 


set httpd port 2812 and

    use address localhost

    allow localhost


    
  






  
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        mzuker
        
        
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Done, then i just run: monit reload and then monit start all and give me the same error:



monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support?

monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support?

monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support?

monit: Cannot connect to the monit daemon. Did you start it with http support?


    
  






  
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fixed, i just needed to uncommend the file :D

    
  






  
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        azadshaikh
        
        
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I was having the same problem. Even after uncommenting in config file. The problem was that I did not restarted the monit service. 



After uncomment the:

set httpd port 2812 and

    use address localhost

    allow localhost



From config file. Just restart the monit daemon



service monit restart



Hope this helps.



    
  






  
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