[Xymon] Automated remedial actions

[Vernon Everett]

Check the man page for Alerts.
Xymon can, as part of normal alerts, kick off a script, which, in theory,
could do almost anything you want.

Should a monitoring tool take remedial action or not?
I leave that for you to decide. :-)

Regards
     Vernon



On 17 November 2011 16:05, Neil Simmonds
<Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk>wrote:

>  Hi all,****
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> I’ve got a requirement to take a specific action on a unix server should
> we get a specific message in a log file. ****
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> 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. ****
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> 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.****
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> If there is some better way of doing it through Xymon I’d really like to
> know how.****
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> Thanks,****
>
> Neil Simmonds
> Operations Analyst
> Operations Support Group
> Express Gifts Ltd.
> neil.simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk ****
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