[Xymon] Re-add a dropped test

[Xymon User in Richmond]

It's a shell script, right?  One of the first things I do with a failing
cron or other background script is to put at the top:

set -x
exec >/tmp/scriptname 2>&1

Then every run puts a trace in the /tmp file.  If you don't get output,
it's not firing, if you do, it should show you exactly what happened.

On Wed, October 5, 2011 14:23, Knox, Wesley wrote:
> This is a TCP listener I added to the bb-services file on the server. The
> test is to telnet to the port expect an ok and if anything else comes thru
> it goes yellow. I believe you are right about the underlying test not
> running as these showed purple before I removed them with the drop
> command. I will dig in and see if I can discover why these are not
> testing. A manual telnet and other test I set up in the same fashion still
> work so this is a bit boggling. Any suggestions as to how I can trouble
> shoot xymon testing, is much appreciated as is the help given so far
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elizabeth Schwartz [mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 7:05 PM
> To: Knox, Wesley
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Re-add a dropped test
>
> What test did you drop, and how is that test running  - built-in on
> client, built-in on server, or ext test or what?
>
> You can force a status with bb like so:
>
> /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "status  server.example.com
> mytest green"  but that's just going to give you your dot back, it's not
> going to solve your underlying problem.
> _______________________________________________
> Xymon mailing list
> Xymon at xymon.com
> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
>
>