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Resolved Alternative for Watchdog on Ubuntu 22.04

H.W.B

Regular Pleskian
Server operating system version
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Plesk version and microupdate number
Version 18.0.52 Update #3
Hello

Ubuntu 22.04 does not support the Watchdog package from Plesk.
Is there an alternive available that monitors services and can restart them??

Thank you
Henk
 
Watchdog uses the Monit package, which can be installed separately:

Googling for "ubuntu 22.04 mmonit" reveals many guides to install and configure Monit.
 
This might be useful for you:

 
Hello Maarten,

Set the Panel.ini with all my services.
Only changed the restart=always to Restart=on-failure because if always, every service is restarting every 7 seconds.....
So now to see if this works.
Thank you
 
Hello Maarten,

I tested with fail2ban to stop the service, but he didn't restart it....
is this ok??
In the panel.ini i entered:
[fail2ban]
Service.RestartSec = 7
Service.Restart = on-failure


Henk
 
You should enter this in panel.ini instead of [fail2ban]:
Code:
[systemd]
Service.RestartSec = 7
Service.Restart = always

I just tested it, and it works as expected:
Code:
# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/register_service --enable fail2ban

# systemctl cat fail2ban | grep -i restart
Restart=on-failure
RestartPreventExitStatus=0 255

# ps -ef | grep fail2ban
root     1010167       1  0 Jun06 ?        00:39:07 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/fail2ban-server -xf start

# kill -9 1010167

# tail -f /var/log/messages
Jun 10 12:24:10 host systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Jun 10 12:24:10 host systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 10 12:24:10 host systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Jun 10 12:24:10 host systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 10 12:24:10 host systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service.
Jun 10 12:24:10 host systemd[1]: Starting Fail2Ban Service...
Jun 10 12:24:10 host systemd[1]: Started Fail2Ban Service.
 
Hello Maarten,

I chaged it to systemd and now it works!!
Thank you
I have entered all my services in the panel.ini.
Are there anymore that uses systemd instead of there own servicename???
If you want i can list them, but there are a lot..

Henk
 
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