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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Do you have this in your tasks.cfg file?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courrier New"">directory /opt/xymon/server/etc/tasks.d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ward, Martin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 19, 2012 11:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Proving that tasks.d/ directory is working<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have a few tasks that I have designed to run on the Xymon server. I have created files in the tasks.d/ subdirectory based on the configs in the tasks.cfg file but they don’t seem to be running.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">One example entry from a file in tasks.d is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"># "replicate_ldap" runs the in-house LDAP replication checks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[ldap_replication]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> ENVFILE /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> CMD /opt/xymon/server/ext/ldap_check_replication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/ldap_replication.log<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> INTERVAL 5m<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It’s a simple configuration and the files exist but the log file has not been updated in weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I cannot find any log information about the tasks.cfg file or its inclusions, it doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere in the Xymon log files, can someone give me a clue as to how I can debug this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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