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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">please, can anybody explain if i either understand something wrong or if i have a failure in my Xymon setup?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">First, let me find a few words about my constellation and then, let me explain my problem…..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This is my constellation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">I have a server “SERVER-A.my.domain” that is running “SERVICE-A”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">I have another server “SERVICE-A-CONN-CHECK” which is verifying if the service “SERVICE-A” is reachable on “SERVER-A.my.domain”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">This server “SERVICE-A-CONN-CHECK” sends the result to the column “SERVICE-A” (-and not to the svcs column-) for the host “SERVER-A.my.domain” on my Xymon server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">The main reason why I’m doing this in this constellation is, that server “SERVICE-A-CONN-CHECK” is located in another datacenter on a different subnet and I want to make sure that service “SERVICE-A”
is available from that other datacenter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">All of this is working like a charm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">Further, i’ve configured the following in my alerts.cfg:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> HOST=SERVER-A.my.domain SERVICE=SERVICE-A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> SCRIPT /opt/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl emailaddress@my.domain COLOR=red FORMAT=PLAIN RECOVERED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">SCRIPT /opt/xymon/server/ext/SERVER-A/reboot-SERVER-A.sh COLOR=RED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">The idea behind this is to receive an email in html format once “SERVER-A.my.domain” has error condition red on service “SERVICE-A” and to receive a recovered email as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">And, in addition to that, the policy in our company is, that server “SERVER-A.my.domain” needs to be rebooted once service “SERVICE-A” has error condition red.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">This is done using the second SCRIPT statement from the above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Basically, all of the above is working.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now here’s my question:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">From the web ui of my Xymon server I have set all the columns of “SERVER-A.my.domain” to disabled for 1 hour due to service reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">I have verified that all of the columns changed their color to blue before doing the service on “SERVER-A.my.domain”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">Once the colors have changed we have stopped “SERVICE-A” on “SERVER-A.my.domain”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">And then, I did receive an email notification about that fact and the server “SERVER-A.my.domain” was rebooted by the script line from the statement in alerts.cfg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-US">During this, all of the columns for that server were still blue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My understanding was that way, that Xymon does NOT process a HOST-based statement (and the there configured rules) in alerts.cfg, if that HOST is disabled in Xymon?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Or does this only mean, that Xymon does not show this fact as red condition on the web ui?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I hope my situation is described clearly enough…. If not, let me know, I’ll try to explain better then….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hope anybody can lead me to the light….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Christian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE">Christian Becker</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:DE"><br>
IT-Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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