Monit For Linux

Monit is a platform-independent, free and open source web-based software that has been designed from the ground up to allow users to easily and quickly manage and monitor processes, daemons, files, folders and devices under any GNU/Linux or UNIX-like system.

The application lets users to conduct automatic repair and maintenance of monitored services, by executing human-readable actions in error situations. With its modern web-based interface, Monit allows you to start, restart or stop processes, monitor files, directories and devices, monitor daemon processes, monitor network connections, as well as to test scripts and programs.

It is capable of starting various daemons, such as sendmail, as well as to restart or stop you server if it is under attack, while notifying you about it. Monit is capable of reporting how much CPU or RAM usage a certain task is consuming. But the best use for this program is to monitor daemon processes that run on the localhost, such as an Apache server, a SSH daemon or a MySQL daemon.

Despite the fact that it can be accessed via a web-browser, Monit requires the user to configure/optimize (optional) and compile the program prior to installation. After download the latest source tarball from Softpedia, unpack it, open a Terminal app, use the ‘cd’ command to navigate to the location of the extracted archive files (e.g. cd /home/softpedia/monit-5.10), then run the ‘./configure && make’ command to configure and compile it. Install it system wide with the ‘sudo make install’ command.

Being a web-based application, Monit can be accessed from any operating system that has a supported web browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer or Chromium. However, it can only be deployed on GNU/Linux and UNIX-like operating systems, such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris or Mac OS X. Both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures being supported at this time.