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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Write a script. Anything that you can run via the command line, can be scripted. Basically you do this:</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">run command that tells you about the disks</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">parse that output looking for error messages or bad words like "missing"</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Send a message using bb (is that renamed xymon in 4.3.0 beta3?)</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">bb 0.0.0.0 "status+15m hostname MyDisks color output of command"</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">0.0.0.0 would be the ip address of your server if you only have 1</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">status+15m means every 15 minutes the server expects an update, otherwise it will go purple</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">hostname is whatever is in bb-hosts (hosts.cfg)</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">MyDisks is the name of your custom test that this script is running</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">any more output is optional, but very helpful in looking at the test's screen.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="478253320-12012011"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Then you can either run that script from a crontab or hobbitlaunch.cfg (xymonlaunch.cfg).</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Paul Root</font></div>
<div align="left">Lead Internet Systems Eng</div>
<div align="left">Network Services</div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [xymon] missing disk detection<br>
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Is there any way to set up xymon so that it will detect a missing disk? I had a SAN disk on a Windows box go missing for an hour or so last night and it wasn't detected.
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Larry Barber<br>
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