[Xymon] Configuring Devmon for the first time

[Josh Luthman]

That probably makes more sense then to use Lynx, good idea.

What's with the "x" in the variable?

Would you mind telling me what values you used for date?

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:53 AM, David Baldwin <
david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> wrote:

> On 31/05/11 11:24 AM, kconnell at ryerson.ca wrote:
> > I've had issues with devmon not updating the bb-display and everything
> going purple.
> > I've had this issue since day one (which is over two years now).
> >
> > I created a "devmon watchdog" script that's runs every 5 min using lynx
> (txt base html browser) which checks if the status of devmon (shows as dm
> test) on bb-monitor. If its purple then I kill the devmon process and start
> it up again....band-aid solution, but it does the trick.
> >
> > I no script expert, but can share the bash script if you want/need.
> >
> Here's mine (replace xymonserver with your hostname):
>
> #!/bin/sh
> COL=`bb xymonserver "hobbitdboard xymonserver.dm fields=color"`
> if [ "x$COL" == "xpurple"  ] ; then
>  (date "+%x %X restarting purple devmon"
>  /etc/init.d/devmon restart) | tee /var/log/devmon-restart.log | mail
> -s "Restarting devmon" xymonadmin
> fi
>
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