monit - Manage the state of a program monitored via Monit

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
required
The name of the monit program/process to manage
state
required
    Choices:
  • present
  • started
  • stopped
  • restarted
  • monitored
  • unmonitored
  • reloaded
The state of service
timeout
(added in 2.1)
 Default:
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 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

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Darryl Stoflet (@dstoflet)

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