[Xymon] Just wondering if I'm the only one who's done this

[Jeremy Ruffer]

Good on you.

I can see no reason not to if it works for you.

Regards

Jeremy

On 1 Sep 2016 06:34, "Bruce Ferrell" <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote:

> I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the days
> when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code... xymon IS
> the spiritual descendant however)
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> Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing
> regularly.  It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service.  I got
> tired of having to do the restarts so I
> looked a bit more into alerts.cfg.  Yes, I can send an alert via a script
> (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do anything
> else?  Well, I'll be!  I wrote one
> to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and perform
> simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed service.
>
> I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
>
> Thoughts?  Concerns?
>
> Bueller? Bueller??
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