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monit - Manage the state of a program monitored via Monit

Synopsis

Manage the state of a program monitored via Monit

Options

parameter required default choices comments
name
yes
    The name of the monit program/process to manage
    state
    yes
    • present
    • started
    • stopped
    • restarted
    • monitored
    • unmonitored
    • reloaded
    The state of service
    timeout
    (added in 2.1)
    no 300
      If there are pending actions for the service monitored by monit, then Ansible will check for up to this many seconds to verify the the requested action has been performed. Ansible will sleep for five seconds between each check.

      Examples

      # Manage the state of program "httpd" to be in "started" state.
      - monit: name=httpd state=started
      

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