[Xymon] Client Side Scripts

[Mark Felder]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015, at 22:01, Dallas Clarke wrote:
> Hello Xymon,
> 
> What I was looking to do, was to monitor a remote server with a custom 
> script and run a 'http' web-server test. I was thinking along the lines 
> of a script forming an alert.
> 
> So the monitored server will have 
> http://remote.server.com/cgi-bin/test-server.pl for example, and it 
> returns:-
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
> <alert>
> <code>1002</code>
> <message>MySQL connection refused</message>
> </alert>
> 
> When Xymon would receive the xml output and process the message
> accordingly.
> 
> Can this be done?
> 

You could have a server run the script (cron or xymon client
clientlaunch.cfg) and output to a file, and then monitor the file and go
RED if it doesn't say "MySQL connection successful" and then you don't
have to parse the XML or get really complicated. You can also have a
monitor on the file to go RED if the file hasn't changed in X minutes to
alert you that the test isn't running anymore.