[Xymon] TS - Maintenance Mode for a group of hosts?

[Jeremy Laidman]

If you only want the "disable" or "enable" to apply to a group of hosts,
you can search for hosts matching any tag you wish using xymongrep.  So for
instance, if you have the following:

192.168.1.1 www.test.com # http telnet CORP
192.168.1.2 mail.test.com # smtp telnet FINANCE
192.168.1.3 ftp.test.com # ftp ssh CORP

Then you can disable the first and third (in "CORP" group) for 90 minutes
with:

xymongrep CORP | while read IP NAME REST; do xymon $XYMSRV "disable $NAME.*
90m disabled group 1 servers"; done

If you want to disable at a future time, use the "schedule" command to
submit the "disable" command at the right time.  Or put the above into a
script and schedule it using "at".

You can be very flexible with the entries in the host.cfg file, and they
are normally ignored by Xymon unless then happen to match a test tag being
used elsewhere.  So instead of "CORP" and "FINANCE" you could have
"GROUP=corp" and "GROUP=finance", and then match that string format
appropriately, such as: xymongrep GROUP=corp.  You're less likely to match
another tag this way.

Then you can match all hosts that are in any group with: xymongrep
'GROUP=*'.  You can even have hosts in multiple groups like:
GROUP=CORP,Linux,prod; then match all corporate hosts with something like:
xymongrep 'GROUP=' | egrep '=CORP|,CORP'

If you already have "NET:location" definitions in hosts.cfg, then you can
match these with: xymongrep 'NET:*'  Or you can match any untagged entries
with

See the man page on xymongrep for more info.

J



On 7 December 2012 01:50, <d.tom.schmitt at l-3com.com> wrote:

> I have a request to take an entire area of hosts and place setup a
> maintenance window starting at a certain time and for say 3 hours.****
>
> Is there a script that I can send it a list and have it place all of the
> devices in maintenance mode?****
>
> ** **
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> All corporate servers will require a window of 3 hours at 6pm tonight.****
>
> Also, is there any option on the HOST line that will not show up (like an
> actual comment not the COMMENT: entry) that can be used to select them from.
> ****
>
> e.g.  the word ‘CORP’ in the options like that will normally be ignored by
> Xymon?****
>
> ** **
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> I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2.****
>
> ** **
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> Also, is there a way to show the COMMENT or DESCRIPTION on the line like
> it does in the non-green view under this release?****
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> *Thanks,*
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>
> *Tom Schmitt*
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> Salt Lake City, UT  84116****
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