Nagios check for monit

Here is a simple nagios check I just created to check the monitor status for monit. The background is as simple as this.. If you have a service that is flapping and monit is set to timeout after a number of failed attempts to start the service, it will un-monitor the service. Without m/monit running, you might never notice it is set as un-monitored. So I created a little python script to check for this