[Xymon] Process report tweak? (a request from my boss's boss...)

[Ralph Mitchell]

Heh - I just noticed I wrote "alerting filesystems", but of course it
should work equally well for processes and ports.

Ralph Mitchell


On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Betsy Schwartz <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>wrote:

> great! Simple! love it!
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > If you need a solution right now, you could use an alert script that
> pretty
> > much just does this:
> >
> >      #!/bin/bash
> >      MESSAGE=`echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | egrep "\&red|\&yellow" | sort`
> >
> >      echo "$MESSAGE" | mailx -s "$BBHOSTNAME $BBSVCNAME $BBCOLORLEVEL"
> $RCPT
> >
> > That gets you just the alerting filesystems.  Then in
> > /home/xymon/server/etc/alerts.cfg:
> >
> >      HOST=hostname.server.com  SERVICE=procs
> >           SCRIPT  /home/xymon/bin/process-alert.sh
> some.body at mailserver.com
> >
> > I'm using something similar to direct messages to different support
> groups
> > for different filesystems.
> >
> > Ralph Mitchell
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Betsy Schwartz <
> betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The process report shows a list of monitored processes at the top,
> >> with the missing process having a yellow dot.
> >> Is it possible in another release to list the bad process FIRST and
> >> SEPARATELY from the others? In email it gets sort of buried when
> >> there's a long list of monitored processes:
> >>
> >> red Fri Oct 12 15:50:56 EDT 2012 - Processes NOT ok &green
> >> /usr/sbin/cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) &red httpd (found 0, req. 1
> >> or more) &green nscd (found 1, req. 1 or more) &green java (found 1,
> >> req. 1 or more) &red coldfusion8 (found 0, req. 1 or more) &green cron
> >> (found 1, req. 1 or more)....
> >>
> >> If people think this is a good idea, that is
> >>
> >> thanks Betsy
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> >
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