Check the man page for Alerts.<div>Xymon can, as part of normal alerts, kick off a script, which, in theory, could do almost anything you want.</div><div><br></div><div>Should a monitoring tool take remedial action or not?</div>
<div>I leave that for you to decide. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div> Vernon</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 November 2011 16:05, Neil Simmonds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Neil.Simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk">Neil.Simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I’ve got a requirement to take a specific action on a
unix server should we get a specific message in a log file. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I’m not sure this is even possible in Xymon and I
suspect I’ll have to try and work out some way of doing it with a script.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Perhaps an external script that will somehow check for the
message, run the relevant command to fix it and report a warning alert so that
we know it has happened.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">If there is some better way of doing it through Xymon I’d
really like to know how.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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