Deploying Monit

Install

Either use your system’s packages, third-parity binaries or the source.

As for Windows, there is monit-windows-agent to try out.

Upstream binaries

grab the latest binaries

linux binaries

wget https://mmonit.com/monit/dist/binary/5.28.1/monit-5.28.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar xzf monit-5.28.1-linux-x64.tar.gz

netbsd binaries

wget https://mmonit.com/monit/dist/binary/5.26.0/monit-5.26.0-netbsd-x64.tar.gz
tar xzf monit-5.26.0-netbsd-x64.tar.gz

proceed

cp -i monit-5.28.1/bin/monit /usr/local/bin/
cp -i monit-5.28.1/conf/monitrc /etc

Distro binaries

slackware

sbopkg -i monit
cd /etc/

ubuntu/debian

apt install monit netcat nmap ksh
#  exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent sysvinit-core
cd /etc/monit/

redhat/EPEL

yum install monit
cd /etc/

netbsd

uname -r
echo $PKG_PATH
pkg_add -v monit
rmdir /usr/pkg/etc/monit/monit.d/
cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/monit /etc/rc.d/
echo monit=yes >> /etc/rc.conf
ln -s /usr/pkg/etc/monit/monitrc ~/

Resources

https://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/Installation

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-and-use-monit-on-ubuntudebian-linux-server/

Monit https://www.mmonit.com/monit/

Monit Source Code https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/