[Xymon] ext script does not run on client restart

[Galen Johnson]

Sounds like the script that sends the message to xymon isn't sending the 'status+6h' or you may want to do 'status+7h' in case there is a slight delay in updating.  Leave the interval in the tasks file at 6h.

=G=

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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Iain M Conochie <iain at shihad.org>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 4:30 AM
To: White, Bruce
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] ext script does not run on client restart

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, White, Bruce wrote:

>
> Does it run after 6 hours?

Hi Bruce

   Yes indeed - it does eventually run, and the test will go from purple to
green.

Thanks

Iain

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> Did you look in your $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbit-patch.sh log file? Probably should rename that .log.
>
> Also, you could just do a $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/xymoncmd $XYMONCLIENT/HOME/ext/hobbit-patch.sh to get it to run.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Iain M Conochie
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2017 3:09 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [Xymon] ext script does not run on client restart
>
> Hi
>
>   I have an ext script to check for the status of available patches on
> my hosts. Once I have updated the patches, I restart the xymon-client so
> that the test will go green again. Occasionally the ext script will not
> run on restart. Is there a way I can debug what the xymon client is
> choosing to run? How does xymon track the interval after a restart? My
> clientlaunch fragment looks like:
>
> [patches]
>         ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
>         CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/hobbit-patch.sh
>         LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbit-patch.sh
>         INTERVAL 6h
>
> Client version:
>
> ii  xymon-client                   4.3.17-6+deb8u1          amd64
> client for the Xymon network monitor
>
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Iain
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