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--- monit:monitoring_and_maintain_trisul_process [2018/10/03 18:14] – dhinesh
+++ monit:monitoring_and_maintain_trisul_process [2020/09/18 14:53] (current) – [Monit Trisul Process] veera
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 ====== Monit Trisul Process  =====
-You can use Monit to monitor daemon processes or similar programs running on localhost.
+This document explains how you can use monit to keep your Trisul Probe processes running.
-==== Install Monit on Ubuntu 16.04 ====
+<note important>Your Trisul Probe processes should never stop. If you are seeing crashes or memory issues , please read "[[admin:debuggingcrash|Debugging Trisul Probe Crashes]]" and help us debug your setup. This guide is useful when Trisul is in production and you want to ensure uptime.
+</note>
+===== Install Monit on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 =====
 <code bash> apt-get install monit </code>
-=== Edit Configuration  ===
+===== Edit Configuration  =====
 . Open the monitrc configuration file
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 . Add following lines at the end of file
 <code>
-check process trisul_flushd_context0 with pidfile /usr/local/var/lib/trisul-hub/domain0/hub0/context0/run/flushd.pid
-  start program = "/usr/local/bin/trisulctl_hub start context context0"
-  stop program = "/usr/local/bin/trisulctl_hub stop context context0"
 check process trisul_probe_context0 with pidfile /usr/local/var/lib/trisul-probe/domain0/probe0/context0/run/trisul-probe.pid
   start program = "/usr/local/bin/trisulctl_probe start context context0@probe0"
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 </code>
+This snippet monitors the trisul probe process and restarts if stopped.
 . Restart the monit
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 <code bash> systemctl enable monit </code>
+====== Advanced configuration - email when monit restarts  ======
+You can have monit restart stopped processes and email you when that happens. Just copy the following snippet into /etc/monit/monitrc
 ===== Email configuration for monit =====