[Xymon] Xymon Cron Question

[Phil Crooker]

You can start with the help files, specifically:

http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-tips.html#scripts

This shows about custom scripts. For me, the easiest way is to install a xymon client on the system you want to run this test on, then setup that client to do the test, see the clientlaunch.cfg file in the xymon client home etc directory. You add your test there, as in:

[dguard]
                ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
                CMD /bin/sh $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/dguard.sh
                INTERVAL 5m

So that script needs to run as the xymon user, so you need to test using that account. Then,  add whatever you call that test to the monitored host in the hosts.cfg (ie 10.1.2.35   hostname.domain    # ftp smtp dns mytest ).

The other way of doing it is to run everything from the xymon server, in this case you'd ssh (or however) to the host and run the command and return the results. It just depends on how you want to set up your xymon environment.

You may in fact be able to get whatever you are testing for from the xymon client - it does have a lot of state information to choose from.

Hope this helps,

Phil Crooker
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Kramer
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:40 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon Cron Question

Hi,

Very new to Xymon here, so I apologize if this is a newb question.

We have a test script that  runs as cron and inspects the state of the system (returns 0 for success, returns non 0 for failure).  We would like to report the result of that test through Xymon.

Any help as to how to do this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

John Kramer
Product Manager - Enterprise Security Solutions
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