[Xymon] Automated remedial actions

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:05 AM, 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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Xymon clients mainly just report things to the Xymon server.  The Xymon
server then evaluates the report to discover any error conditions.  It
doesn't send anything back to the client if an error is found.  So, if you
want the client to take remedial action, you're probably going to have to
write an external test script for the client to run.

Ralph Mitchell
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