[OpenSIPS-Users] Monit error under OpenSIPS 1.6.3 and Opensips-cp 4

Deon Vermeulen vermeulen.deon at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 07:42:44 CEST 2010


Thank you very much Dave.

I'll look into this and give feedback.

regards
Deon

On 08 Sep 2010, at 7:14 PM, Dave Singer wrote:

> You may not have monit running as a service. Check the current  
> status of monit:
>   monit status
> It will tell you if it is running.
> If it is not start it with:
>   /etc/init.d/monit start
> I primarily use centos and fedora but I think that will work with  
> debian systems too.
> I think that the default config does not have the daemon set to  
> listen for communication. It needs this for commands like "monit  
> status" and "monit monitor opensips" and "monit unmonitor opensips"
> something like this:
>   set httpd port 2812 and
>      use address localhost  # only accept connection from localhost
>      allow localhost
> Also you don't want to use the same call to the init.d script that  
> is used to start it up regularly otherwise you get a loop going or  
> at least double notify of (un)monitor actions.
> What I do for the opensips portion of the monit config is have it  
> call /etc/init.d/opensips monit_start.
> Then in /etc/init.d/opensips I have it catch that arg and not tell  
> monit to monitor but call the regular start function. When it gets  
> the regular start arg it calls the regular start function and then  
> tells monit to start monitoring it.
> Also when the init.d script gets a restart command I don't update  
> monit It checks the pid file itself and realizes that the pid has  
> changed and sends a message to that affect rather then two messages,  
> one that it us unmonitoring and one that it is monitoring.
> I've attached the /etc/init.d/opensips that I'm currently using.
>
> Don't forget to make sure that the monit daemon will start on next  
> reboot.
>
> The attached init.d/opensips script uses some of redhats conventions  
> for displaying success/failure and adjust the working directory  
> according to your install. But I think overall it should be fairly  
> portable to other distros.
>
> Note. Many of the options I pass to opensips are usually set in the  
> script. For the passed options to work they can not be set in  
> opensips.cfg.
> You may also notice that for a restart it validates the config  
> before allowing a restart. It does two levels of checks, the  
> opensips -C to verify the syntax of the config and actually starts a  
> minimal opensips because sometimes there are things that will make  
> it not work even when the syntax checks out.
> The test run listens on lo:2056 so beware incase of conflicts. YMMV
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dave
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Deon Vermeulen <vermeulen.deon at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I've successfully installed Opensips-cp 4 and got the Statistics  
> monitoring to work, but I'm unable to get Monit to work.
>
> I've been all over google and tested recommendations, but with no  
> luck.
>
> This is the procedure I followed to install Monit:
>
> Step 1: Install Monit:
> apt-get install monit
>
> Step 2: Once installed, you'll find the main configuration file.
> vi /etc/monit/monitrc
> set daemon  120
> set logfile syslog facility log_daemon
> set alert root at localhost
> set httpd port 2812 and
> use address yourdomain.com
> allow localhost       	# allow localhost to connect to the server and
> allow youripaddress    # allow 192.168.1.2 to connect to the  
> server,   ###(What IP should this be? The IP of the this Box or  
> where I am connecting from?)
>                       			# You can give only one per entry
> allow admin:monit        # user name and password for  
> authentication.  ###(I guess the Username and Password will be  
> admin:admin if my login to Opensips-cp ios admin:admin)
> check process opensips with pidfile /var/run/opensips.pid
>
> ###(For Some Reason this does not work. Had to comment all).
> #Below is actions taken by monit when service got stuck.
> start program = "/etc/init.d/opensips start"
> stop program  = "/etc/init.d/opensips stop"
> # Admin will notify by mail if below of the condition satisfied.
> if cpu is greater than 70% for 2 cycles then alert
> if cpu > 90% for 5 cycles then restart
>
> Step 3: After modifying the configuration file, you should check for  
> the syntax to
> make sure that everything is correct. To do this, run:
> # monit -t   (When I run this I get syntax OK)
>
> Step 4: Edit the /etc/default/monit file and change the parameters  
> as follows:
> # You must set this variable to for 1 monit to start
> startup=1
> # To change the intervals which monit should run uncomment
> # and change this variable.
> # CHECK_INTERVALS=180
>
>
> Configuring OpenSIPS Control Panel
>
> Step 1: Configure the database access parameters. Edit the  
> db.inc.php file, which is
> valid for all modules. You may change the database parameters for a  
> single module
> inside the module configuration section.
> For example:
> cd /var/www/opensips-cp/config
> vi db.inc.php
> //database host
> $config->db_host = "localhost";
> //database port - leave empty for default
> $config->db_port = "";
> //database connection user
> $config->db_user = "root";
> //database connection password
> $config->db_pass = "opensips";
> //database name
> $config->db_name = "opensips";
> if ($config->db_port != "")$config->db_host=$config->db_host":"
> $config->db_port;
>
> Step 2: Configure the FIFO access in the boxes.global.inc.php file:
> cd /var/www/opensips-cp/config/
> vi boxes.global.inc.php
> $box_id=0;
> // mi host:port pair || fifo_file
> $boxes[$box_id]['mi']['conn']="127.0.0.1:8000";  # (I added this  
> line, as per recommendation I found searching Google).
> $boxes[$box_id]['mi']['conn']="/tmp/opensips_fifo";
> // monit host:port
> $boxes[$box_id]['monit']['conn']="127.0.0.1:2812";
> $boxes[$box_id]['monit']['user']="admin";
> $boxes[$box_id]['monit']['pass']="monit";
> $boxes[$box_id]['monit']['has_ssl']=0;
> // description (appears in mi , monit )
> $boxes[$box_id]['desc']="primary SIP server";
> $boxes[$box_id]['assoc_id']=1;
> // enable local smonitor charts on this box : 0=disabled 1=enabled
> // (cron)
> $boxes[$box_id]['smonitor']['charts']=1;
>
>
> I added modparam("mi_fifo", "fifo_mode", 0666) to /etc/opensips/ 
> opensips.cfg
>
>
> Restart apache
>
>
>
> This i what I did to get Statistics Monitor working:
> Setup Smonitor Tables
> 1. Copy tables.mysql
>
> cp /var/www/opensips-cp/config/tools/system/smonitor/tables.mysql / 
> var/www/opensips-cp/web/tools/system/smonitor/tables.mysql
>
> mysql -p opensips < tables.mysql
>
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Regards
> Deon
>
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