[Xymon] Running the Availability Report from a crontab entry

[Buchan Milne]

On Tuesday, 17 January 2012 23:38:26 cleaver at terabithia.org wrote:
> On Tue, January 17, 2012 12:13 pm, White, Bruce wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I know I have seen some discussion on how to do this, but my searching
> > the archive has come up with nothing.   Can anyone provide an example of
> > how I would run the Availability report from a crontab entry, so I could
> > produce a report automatically the first of every month for the last
> > month?
> 
> From xymonreport.sh:
> "10 2 1 * * /usr/bin/xymoncmd --env=/etc/xymon/xymonserver.cfg
> xymonreports.sh monthly"

Where is xymonreports.sh?

(yes, I happen to need to implement something like this this week ....)

> ..should be all you need (adjust your paths as needed). If you want to be
> slick, drop versions of this into cron.daily/weekly/monthly instead.
> 
> Reports will be dropped into your webroot under /periodic.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -jc
> 
> 
> This is what I do in my RPM (with paths):
> 

IMHO, this should be a separate package, and/or extension, and we should try 
and sort out/standardise extension deployment/packaging etc.

Regards,
Buchan