Setup Monit for SafeSquid Monitoring

Setup Monit for SafeSquid Monitoring

Installation and configuration of Monit Service

Monit will automatically get installed when you install SafeSquid Appliance Builder (SAB) to setup your secure web gateway.
You can check status of monit service using command:  
  1. /etc/init.d/monit status
If monit is not installed automatically while installing SAB or while installing SafeSquid manually, you have to install and configure it manually.
Follow below steps to install Monit:
Run below command to install the monit service
  1. apt-get install monit
Open /etc/monit folder and edit monitrc configuration file.
Set the parameters as shown below-
To check the services in 3 second interval
set daemon 3
enable the built-in web server for browsing the services you're monitoring:
set httpd port 2812 and
use address localhost
allow localhost
allow admin:monit
allow @monit
To include the configuration or its parts from other files or directories.
  1. include /etc/monit/conf.d/*
You need to restart the monit service by using below command
  1. /etc/init.d/monit restart
You can check whether SafeSquid is monitored by monit or not by using below command
  1. monit status
You will see all services monitored by the monit

Testing

To test the working of Monit service, stop the SafeSquid service by using command    /etc/init.d/safesquid stop
Now check the process Id of SafeSquid service with the command    pidof safesquid
You will observe that SafeSquid service had automatically been started by Monit without any user interaction.

Add Monit service to startup

You can also execute below command to add monit service to be started for every reboot of machine.
  1. update-rc.d monit enable




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