On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 14:21:36 ushi wrote:
> Am 13.02.2014 13:04, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving notifications
> > from systemd for unit state changes? I currently use Monit for the
> > monitoring of many processes, and it'll e-mail me when things
> > happen (e.g. a process was restarted). Since switching to systemd,
> > it's felt a bit silly that for several processes, I'm having Monit
> > monitor them simply because systemd is unable to tell me it
> > restarted a unit. Monit isn't actually required to keep those
> > processes alive as it once was, because systemd can do that.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Hey Paul,
>
> Check out OnFailure=
>
> [Unit]
> Description="HTTP Service"
> OnFailure=mail-root@http.service
> ...
>
> The mail-root@.service is a generic oneshot service that mails you
> some stuff.
>
> [Unit]
> Description="Mailer"
>
> [Service]
> Type=oneshot
> ExecStart=/path/to/my/mail-script %i
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
> And your mail-script is somthing like...
>
> #!/usr/bin/env sh
>
> systemctl status "${1}.service" | \
> mail -s "Failed Service: ${1}" admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> See:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#OnFailure=
Thanks ushi, that's certainly something. It looks promising for custom unit files, but not
so great for catching unexpected unit failures. I'll definitely keep that one in mind,
though.
Paul
