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Monit

Installation and configuration of Monit Service​

Monit will automatically get installed when you install SafeSquid Appliance Builder (SAB) to set up your secure web gateway.

You can check the status of the monit service using the command**:**

/etc/init.d/monit status

If Monit is not installed automatically while installing SAB or while installing SafeSquid manually, you must install and configure it manually.

Follow the below steps to install Monit:

Run the below command to install the monit service

apt-get install monit

Open /etc/monit folder and edit monitrc configuration file.

Set the parameters as shown below-

  • To check the services in a 3-second interval set daemon 3

  • Enable the built-in web server for browsing the services you're monitoring:

set httpd port 2812 and

use address localhost

allow localhost

allow admin:monit

allow @monit

  • To include the configuration or its parts from other files or directories.
include /etc/monit/conf.d/
  • Restart the monit service by using the command
/etc/init.d/monit restart
  • Check whether SafeSquid is monitored by Monit or not by using the command
monit status

You will see all services monitored by the monit

Testing​

To test the working of the Monit service, stop the SafeSquid service by using the command

/etc/init.d/safesquid stop

Now check the process ID of the SafeSquid service with the command

pidof safesquid

You will observe that the SafeSquid service had automatically been started by Monit without any user interaction.

Add Monit service to startup​

You can also execute the command below to start a monit service for every machine reboot.

update-rc.d monit enable
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