[CollEc] Monit

[Thomas Krichel]

  Düben, Christian writes

> It looks like the entire system took a hit five days ago. Usually,
> that is not a problem. The Docker containers are set to restart
> automatically. While the ShinyProxy container did restart, the
> MariaDB container was damaged to an extent that Docker could not
> restart it.

  But this should not have happen. 

> As I only check CollEc infrequently these days, I would like set up
> a notification system that sends an e-mail alert following critical
> errors. In particular, I would like to use the system outlined in
> this post: https://dummylabs.com/post/2018-08-15-monit/. It uses
> Monit to send e-mail alerts. Monit needs to be connected to an
> e-mail account / mail server. Is there a mail server on Helos that I
> can connect it to?

  Sure it runs exim and it can send mail. I suspect that monit will be
  able to send mail from localhost.

  
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  Thomas Krichel                  http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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