[Xymon] Automated remedial actions

Thu Nov 17 10:15:29 CET 2011

Hi Vernon,

I've looked at alerts.cfg and as far as I can see that would only allow
me to narrow it down to the service (i.e. I could specify the msgs
service on a specific host)

However that doesn't allow me to narrow it down to a specific message. I
had thought of perhaps triggering a script that way and then doing a
grep through the last 500 lines of the log to see if I find the message
I'm interested in (I don't expect it to come out too often).

As for whether a monitoring solution should take remedial action,
unfortunately we are currently using one that shall remain nameless but
let's just say it's one of the big 4 and we are looking to replace all
the functionality we are currently utilising from that with Xymon. As
that does remedial actions I have to try and find a way of doing it in
Xymon.

Cheers,

Neil Simmonds 
Operations Analyst
Operations Support Group 
Express Gifts Ltd. 
neil.simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk 

Tel :- 01254 303092 
Fax :- 01254 303100 

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From: Vernon Everett [mailto:everett.vernon at gmail.com] 
Sent: 17 November 2011 09:06
To: Neil Simmonds
Cc: Xymon Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Automated remedial actions

Check the man page for Alerts.

Xymon can, as part of normal alerts, kick off a script, which, in
theory, could do almost anything you want.

Should a monitoring tool take remedial action or not?

I leave that for you to decide. :-)

Regards

     Vernon

On 17 November 2011 16:05, Neil Simmonds
<Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk> wrote:

Hi all,

I've got a requirement to take a specific action on a unix server should
we get a specific message in a log file. 

I'm not sure this is even possible in Xymon and I suspect I'll have to
try and work out some way of doing it with a script. 

Perhaps an external script that will somehow check for the message, run
the relevant command to fix it and report a warning alert so that we
know it has happened.

If there is some better way of doing it through Xymon I'd really like to
know how.

Thanks,

Neil Simmonds 
Operations Analyst
Operations Support Group 
Express Gifts Ltd. 
neil.simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk 

Tel :- 01254 303092 
Fax :- 01254 303100 

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