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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hi <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vernon</st1:place></st1:City>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I’ve looked at alerts.cfg and as far as I
can see that would only allow me to narrow it down to the service (i.e. I could
specify the msgs service on a specific host)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>However that doesn’t allow me to narrow it
down to a specific message. I had thought of perhaps triggering a script that
way and then doing a grep through the last 500 lines of the log to see if I
find the message I’m interested in (I don’t expect it to come out too often).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>As for whether a monitoring solution
should take remedial action, unfortunately we are currently using one that
shall remain nameless but let’s just say it’s one of the big 4 and we are
looking to replace all the functionality we are currently utilising from that
with Xymon. As that does remedial actions I have to try and find a way of doing
it in Xymon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'>Neil Simmonds</span></font><font color=blue
face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'> <br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'>Operations Analyst<br>
Operations Support Group</span></font><font color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span
style='font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'> <br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'>Express Gifts Ltd.</span></font><font
color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'> <br>
</span></font><font size=2 color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'><a
href="mailto:neil.simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk" target="_blank">neil.simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk</a></span></font><font
color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'> </span></font><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=1 color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'>Tel :- 01254 303092</span></font><font
color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'> <br>
</span></font><font size=1 color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'>Fax :- 01254 303100</span></font><font
color=blue face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI";color:blue'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
Vernon Everett [mailto:everett.vernon@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 17 November 2011 09:06<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Neil Simmonds<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Xymon Mailing List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Xymon] Automated
remedial actions</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Check the man page for Alerts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Xymon can, as part of normal alerts, kick off a script, which, in
theory, could do almost anything you want.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Should a monitoring tool take remedial action or not?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I leave that for you to decide. :-)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vernon</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 17 November 2011 16:05, Neil Simmonds <<a
href="mailto:Neil.Simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk">Neil.Simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi all,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'>Neil
Simmonds</span></font><font face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI"'>
<br>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI"'>Operations Analyst<br>
Operations Support Group</span></font><font face="Segoe UI"><span
style='font-family:"Segoe UI"'> <br>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI"'>Express Gifts Ltd.</span></font><font face="Segoe UI"><span
style='font-family:"Segoe UI"'> <br>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI"'><a href="mailto:neil.simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk"
target="_blank">neil.simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk</a></span></font><font
face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"'>Tel
:- 01254 303092</span></font><font face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-family:
"Segoe UI"'> <br>
</span></font><font size=1 face="Segoe UI"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Segoe UI"'>Fax :- 01254 303100</span></font><font face="Segoe UI"><span
style='font-family:"Segoe UI"'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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