Resending to the list, Gmail seems to be hiding the "reply to all". <br><br>Thanks,<br>Larry Barber<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Larry Barber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lebarber@gmail.com">lebarber@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The kind of things that you can automate should be handled routinely, not be triggered by an alert from your monitoring tool. If you have logs growing to fast that they are filling up you file system you should find out what is filling them up and why and then fix that. Automatic log rotation and compression should be done by a tool like logrotate, not Xymon or any other monitoring tool. You shouldn't be using a monitoring tool to trigger routine maintenance, it simply causes unnecessary alerts that cause problems in other areas. <br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Larry Barber<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:06 PM, KING, KEVIN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:KK1051@att.com" target="_blank">KK1051@att.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Some auto correcting is not bad. Back in the Big brother days I had a datacenter and team of folks. We managed to the “yellow” alerts. I had folks correct and
build scripts to address the things that brought on the yellow so we never saw the red. This made it so very little red was ever seen.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Now the things you can automate are the disk full kind of things. If that happens you can run a script to clean logs compress and that stuff. This was usually
handled by managing the yellow. There would be a script in place to keep the space to below the yellow trigger. So if you got a red it was usually a bug temp file or something that would get cleaned shortly. So say on the red alert you could have it run the
cleanup script rather than waiting for your cron to do the normal cleanup.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Now on other issues it really depends on what the alert is about. You cannot automate everything economically. At some point it is cheaper and faster to put a
human in the loop. I did have a script that would take the e-mail response from the alert and we could have it parse the message and do the work. This was back in the day with the RIM pagers. So you got an alert you replied to the alert with “run clean script
on host” The reply e-mail was parsed in by the same script we were using to acknowledge the alert. It would parse and run a clean script. This let my admins be able to work issues while away from a PC or network connection.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">I do hear and agree with your concerns. A blanket statement from managers that do not have a full understanding of all the elements is a ruff thing to swallow.
But there heart is in the right spot </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(31,73,125)">J</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">I guess in a rather long rambling way I am saying that you learn and tune your systems. Address re-occurring issues so they do not. Then watch for the next thing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">-Kevin<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Larry Barber<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 06, 2012 1:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] autofixing<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My management has gotten the idea that we should be automating the repair processes on our servers. They want things set up so that when a fault is detected a script is run that attempts to repair it. I've tried to convince them that this
is a profoundly wrong-headed idea, but I'm not having much luck. Do any of you know of any articles or resources that might help convince them?
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Larry Barber<u></u><u></u></p>
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