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running simplemonitor on Ubuntu Xenial

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Hi,

I am trying to run simplemonitor on Ubuntu xenial, I installed Python3.6 from deadsnakes/ppa. Simplemonitor is successfully installed. The ini files look like this now: monitors.ini

[host1.local]
type=ping
host=host1.local.domain
tolerance=2

monitor.ini

[monitor]
interval=60

[reporting]
loggers=logfile
alerters=email

[email]
type=email
host=localhost
from=root
to=me@local.domain

[logfile]
type=logfile
filename=monitor.log
only_failures=0

python3

# which python3
/usr/local/bin/python3
# ll /usr/local/bin/python3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 19 09:37 /usr/local/bin/python3 -> /usr/bin/python3.6*

I am now trying to write the systemd unit:

[Unit]
Description=monitoring service
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/simplemonitor
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/simplemonitor
Restart=on-failure
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
User=root
Group=root

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I tried the ExecStart with ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/simplemonitor/monitor.py and ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/simplemonitor/monitor.py, both don’t work and the service exits with failer.

When trying ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/simplemonitor, and ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/simplemonitor the service is running without problems, but it doesn’t log any thing. so I don’t know if it performs the ping check.

When I run simplemonitor form cli, it logs to monitor.log only when I hit Ctrl+c.

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks

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3c2b2ff5commented, Nov 19, 2020

Great! Exactly what I’ve been looking for. Great tool and great support. Thank you very much.

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jamesoffcommented, Nov 19, 2020

Example using the “subdir” version, using sm as the subdir:

root@ubuntu:/opt/simplemonitor# pip install -t sm simplemonitor
Collecting simplemonitor
  Using cached simplemonitor-1.10.0-py3-none-any.whl (119 kB)
[...]

root@ubuntu:/opt/simplemonitor# ll
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Nov 19 03:40 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Nov 19 03:40 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  202 Nov 19 03:40 monitor.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   51 Nov 19 03:40 monitors.ini
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Nov 19 03:40 sm/

root@ubuntu:/opt/simplemonitor# ./sm/bin/simplemonitor -t -d
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) === SimpleMonitor v1.10.0
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) Loading main config from monitor.ini
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) Loading monitor config from monitors.ini
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) === Loading monitors
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) Adding ping monitor host1.local: Checking localhost pings within 5 seconds
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) --- Loaded 1 monitors
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) === Loading loggers
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) Adding logfile logger logfile: Writing log file to monitor.log
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) --- Loaded 1 loggers
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) === Loading alerters
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) Adding email alerter email
2020-11-19 03:40:56     INFO (simplemonitor) --- Loaded 1 alerters
2020-11-19 03:40:56  WARNING (simplemonitor) Config test complete. Exiting.