blackbox exporter file, not actually using yet

diff --git a/filesystem/etc/systemd/system/prometheus-blackbox-exporter.service.d/override.conf b/filesystem/etc/systemd/system/prometheus-blackbox-exporter.service.d/override.conf
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+### DEPLOYED BY ANSBILE. CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN.
+# apparently alertmanager failes to start when the internet is down:
+# Mar 10 13:20:09 kd prometheus-alertmanager[2719]: level=error ts=2022-03-10T18:20:09.907Z caller=main.go:243 msg="unable to initialize gossip mesh" err="create memberlist: Failed to get final advertise address: No private IP address found, and explicit IP not provided"
+
+[Unit]
+# needed to continually restart
+StartLimitIntervalSec=0
+
+[Service]
+Restart=always
+# time to sleep before restarting a service
+RestartSec=300
+
+# empty signifies to replace the existing value
+ExecStart=
+ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/blackbox_exporter $ARGS