[PLUG] How to make a linux system self recover

[VY]

Thanks.  Monit is exactly the kind of tool I need.  Never know it existed
until you point it.
Thanks!


On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, VY wrote:
>
> > I am asking everyone -- if I want a very reliable Linux setup such as
> what
> > I described above, what are some of the considerations I should be
> > thinking about?
> > Any tip much appreciated!  Thanks
>
>    man monit:
>
> NAME
>         Monit - utility for monitoring services on a Unix system
>
> SYNOPSIS
>         monit [options] {arguments}
>
> DESCRIPTION
>         Monit is a 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. E.g. Monit can start a process if it
>         does not run, restart a process if it does not respond and stop a
>         process if it uses too much resources. You can use Monit to monitor
>         files, directories and filesystems for changes, such as timestamps
>         changes, checksum changes or size changes.
>
>         Monit is controlled via an easy to configure control file based on
> a
>         free-format, token-oriented syntax. Monit logs to syslog or to its
>         own log file and notifies you about error conditions via
> customisable
>         alert messages. Monit can perform various TCP/IP network checks,
>         protocol checks and can utilise SSL for such checks. Monit
> provides a
>         HTTP(S) interface and you may use a browser to access the Monit
>         program.
>
> etc.
>
> Rich
>
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