26huitailang / gomonit

Simple Golang API for Monit daemon

GoMonit Golang API for Monit

Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

Monit Source Code

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Simple golang agent API for Monit. Can be used to perform some simple action on Monit daemon :

• retrieve current status,
• start a service,
• stop a service
• activate / deactivate monitoring on a service

Usage

go get http://github.com/Axili39/gomonit

Prerequisites

Activate http in /etc/monit/monitrc config file :

• specify a bind address,
• specify admin/password credential

set httpd port 2812 and
     use address 127.0.0.1
     allow admin:monit

Note: see /etc/monit/monitrc config file instructions, for more informations

Examples

package main
import (
	"fmt"	
	"encoding/json"
	"github.com/Axili39/gomonit"
)

func main() {
	agent, err := gomonit.NewMonitAgent("http://127.0.0.1:2812", "admin:monit")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("%v\n",err)
		return
	}

	// Show current status
	out,_ := json.Marshal(&agent.Status)
	fmt.Printf("%s\n",string(out))

	// Do an action on service
	err = agent.StartService("foo")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("%v\n",err)
		return
	}

	// Request Status
	err = agent.RequestStatus()
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("%v\n",err)
		return
	}

	out,_ = json.Marshal(&agent.Status)
	fmt.Printf("%s\n",string(out))

}