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Update The System
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Once your system is updated, restart your system to make these changes take effect with the following command:
exit
login
Installing Monit
sudo apt install monit --no-install-recommends
Once Monit is installed, start Monit service and enable it to start on boot time by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start monit
sudo systemctl enable monit
You can check the status of Monit service any time by running the following command:
systemctl status monit
Backup config and enable integrated http daemon
sudo cp /etc/monit/monitrc /etc/monit/monitrc-orgnl
sudo vi /etc/monit/monitrc-orgnl
sudo systemctl restart monit
systemctl status monit
You can see the status of Monit with the following command:
sudo monit status
To check configuration files syntax, use:
sudo monit -t
Check monitored processes summary:
sudo monit summary
Configure Monit for Apache Service
By default Monit comes with the pre-defined template for some of process and services. You can find these templates in /etc/monit/conf-available/ directory. By default template for Apache is available in Monit. So you will only need to enable it. You can enable it by running the following command:
sudo ln -s /etc/monit/conf-available/apache2 /etc/monit/conf-enabled/
Next, restart monit servcie to apply these changes with the following command:
sudo systemctl restart monit
systemctl status monit
To start running all of the monitored programs.
sudo monit start all