[Xymon] Preventing Purple - Periodical Checks

[Steve Coile]

I think the "right" way would be to put the scheduling logic in the script,
to have it always report green off-hours, rather than try to tell Xymon to
ignore missing reports at certain times.

Xymon is specifically designed (AFAIK) to receive regular data feeds, not
intermittent ones.


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*Steve Coile*Senior Network and Systems Engineer, McClatchy Interactive
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <
tres.finocchiaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a custom service check that is only done during certain times of
> the day and only on certain days of the week.
>
> We use crontab and a shell script to generate the output and pipe it into
> the front-end using the xymon executable.
>
> xymon 127.0.0.1 "status $server.$service $green|$red|$yellow
> $timestamp,$description"
>
> This check works terrific when it runs, but in between checks it goes
> purple.
>
> Without creating a fake service check in between each scheduled cron
> entry, what's the quickest way to configure that this check goes purple
> less often?  (or if that's not possible, never go purple?)  How are others
> handling occasional or daily service checks?  Are you hard-coding the times
> into the script itself?
>
> -Tres
>
>
>
> - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
>
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