monit Restarting Your Services, Its Web Interface Off The Network
monit from EPEL keeping the services you name running and watching your filesystems, with the package's web interface (127.0.0.1:2812, accepting admin:monit) replaced by a unix socket only root can open and credentials made for each host. The live test kills a watched service, sees monit start it again, and is refused with admin:monit. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-10-08 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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```yaml
# monit Restarting Your Services, Its Web Interface Off The Network: https://www.iac-bazaar.com/catalog/ansible-monit (download from your IaC Bazaar account)
```Preview:
Documentation
monit
monit from EPEL keeping the services you name running and watching your
filesystems, with its web interface moved off the network: a unix socket only
root can open, and credentials the role makes for each host instead of the
package's admin:monit. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No download, and no version to pin. EL 10 packages monit in EPEL, so the
role installs it by name and takes what the distribution ships: a security
update arrives through dnf, not through a new release of this role. What the
role owns is the configuration and the proof that the service works.
The distribution's unit, our configuration. The role installs monit
from EPEL, writes /etc/monitrc and /etc/monit.d/iacbazaar-checks (both root
0600, each checked by monit -t first) and enables the package's
monit.service. Each entry in monit_services becomes a process check matched
on its command line, started and stopped through systemd, and given up on after
monit_restart_limit restarts in monit_restart_window cycles.
The package's web interface takes admin:monit. The stock control file
listens on 127.0.0.1:2812 and accepts that pair (measured: 200; no credentials
or a wrong password, 401). monit runs as root and starts and stops services, so
on a shared host anyone who knows the documented pair can drive it. The role
replaces the listener with set httpd unixsocket /run/monit.sock ... permission 0600: nothing listens on TCP, a user who is not root cannot connect at all, and
the role's own pair (made once per host, kept in
/etc/monit-iacbazaar/credentials, 0600) is the only one accepted. The CLI keeps
working, because it reads that pair from /etc/monitrc.
Modes the role sets itself. monit -t refuses a control file more open than
0700 but does not look at the mode of a file it includes (a 0644 file holding
credentials passed). The role writes every file 0600.
Each check file checked alone. monit -t checks a control file, not an
include, so the role checks iacbazaar-checks by wrapping it in a control file
that includes nothing else. A broken include makes the CLI refuse to run while
the daemon carries on with what it loaded, which is why nothing reaches
/etc/monit.d unchecked.
What the live test restarts, and why it stops rather than kills. crond's
own unit restarts it after a crash (Restart=on-failure, 30 seconds), so a
killed crond comes back with or without monit - measured, and a first version
of this test passed with monit's start program deleted. A crond stopped through
systemd stays stopped (still inactive after 35 seconds) unless something starts
it, so that is what the live test does, and it then finds monit's own start
action in the journal.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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