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What does Monit do when it says 'initializing'?

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Mar 15, 20267141 views
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I'm using Monit for system monitoring. If i enable monitoring on a service it shows 'initializing' in the Status row. This can take a while. I wonder what Monit is doing in that time, since the used start script should return in under 2 secs max.

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If you look in , you'll see one of the options is " " which controls how often Monit checks services. Mine is set at 120. So that is the quickest Monit will update what it reports. The script might return in 2 seconds, but if yours is set like mine …

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