[Xymon] Automated remedial actions

[Vernon Everett]

No need for that level of complexity.
Scroll down a little further.
The following environment variables will be defined within your script.
*BBALPHAMSG* The full text of the status log triggering the alert
So all you need to do is
echo $BBALPHAMSG | grep "Bad message" && do_stuff

Hope it helps

Cheers
     Vernon

On 17 November 2011 17:15, Neil Simmonds
<Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk>wrote:

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> Hi ****Vernon****,****
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> 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)****
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> 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).****
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> 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.****
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> Cheers,****
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> Neil Simmonds
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> Operations Support Group
> Express Gifts Ltd.
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> *From:* Vernon Everett [mailto:everett.vernon at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 17 November 2011 09:06
> *To:* Neil Simmonds
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> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Automated remedial actions****
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> Check the man page for Alerts.****
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> Xymon can, as part of normal alerts, kick off a script, which, in theory,
> could do almost anything you want.****
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> Should a monitoring tool take remedial action or not?****
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> I leave that for you to decide. :-)****
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> Regards****
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>      ****Vernon********
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> On 17 November 2011 16:05, Neil Simmonds <
> Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk> wrote:****
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> Hi all,****
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> I’ve got a requirement to take a specific action on a unix server should
> we get a specific message in a log file. ****
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> 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. ****
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> 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.****
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> If there is some better way of doing it through Xymon I’d really like to
> know how.****
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> Thanks,****
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> Neil Simmonds
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> Operations Support Group
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