[Xymon] Just wondering if I'm the only one who's done this

[Richard Hamilton]

It's a useful enough possibility...and we all use workarounds from time to
time.  But as time permits, the real cause of the problem should be found
and fixed; and workarounds should not become permanent.  I'd worry that a
monitoring tool being used to implement workarounds could make that too
tempting.


On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> Den 01-09-2016 07:33, Bruce Ferrell skrev:
>
>> I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the
>> days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code...
>> xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
>>
>> Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing
>> regularly.  It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service.  I
>> got tired of having to do the restarts so I
>> looked a bit more into alerts.cfg.  Yes, I can send an alert via a
>> script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do
>> anything else?  Well, I'll be!  I wrote one
>> to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and
>> perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed
>> service.
>>
>> I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
>>
>> Thoughts?  Concerns?
>>
>
> Sure, you can do that if it suits your way of working. And I can certainly
> see why it would be nice to avoid restarting the same service again and
> again.
>
> The reason that Xymon doesn't do that "out of the box" is this: Xymon has
> always been a "watch, but don't act" tool. And that is an inheritance from
> the Big Brother days.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
>
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