Personally I always install and configure monit on all boxes which are under my control.


Install monit under Debian or Ubuntu Linux

Use apt-get command to install monit

# apt-get install monitOR$ sudo apt-get install monit


Install monit under Red Hat enterprise Linux (source code installation)

Many distributions include monit. However monit is not included in official Red hat enterprise Linux. Just download monit source code from official web site using wget command:

# cd /opt

# wget http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/monit-4.8.2.tar.gz

Untar monit

# tar -zcvf monit-4.8.2.tar.gz

# cd monit-4.8.2


Configure and compile monit:

# ./configure

# make



Install monit

# make install


Copy monit configuration file:

# cp monitrc /etc/monitrc

By default monit is located at /usr/local/bin/monit


How do I Configure monit?

monitrc is name of monit configuration file and it is by default located at /etc/monitrc location. However each distribution places file in different location: .

=> Source code installation : /etc/monitrc

=> Debian / Unentu Linux installation : /etc/monit/monitrc

Open monit configuration file and setup values as follows:

# vi /etc/monitrc