Hello out there,
we are using Xymon 4.3.7 as xymon server. There is a particular client
running Ubuntu 9.04 as operating system and Xymon 4.3.7 as client,
reporting successfully to the Xymon server.
I have been in the need to write a script that is running on a fixed time
of a day. Therefore I configured the script in the clientlaunch.cfg on the
client as follows:
[xymoncheckscript-custom]
ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/xymoncheckscript-custom.sh
LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/ xymoncheckscript-custom.log
CRONDATE 0 11 * * *
When restarting the xymon services on the client I get the following entry
in clientlaunch.log:
2012-06-13 10:58:53 Can't parse cron date: xymoncheckscript-custom->0 11 *
* *
The man page of tasks.cfg has the section:
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[monthlyreport]
ENVFILE /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
CMD /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/monthlyreport.sh
CRONDATE 30 4 1 * *
:
:
The CRONDATE keyword is used for tasks that must run at regular intervals
or at a specific time. The time specification is identical to the one used
by cron in
crontab<http://xymon.mrv.de/xymon/help/manpages/man5/crontab.5.html>;(5)
entries, i.e. a sequence of numbers for minute, hour, day-of-month, month
and day-of-week. Three-letter abbreviations in english can be used for the
month and day-of-week fields. An asterisk is a wildcard. So in the example
above, this job would run once a month, at 4:30 AM on the 1st day of the
month.
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For my understanding everything I've set up should work, but it doesn't.
Where's my fault? I would really like to fire this check-script from
clientlaunch.cfg instead of an crontab entry.
Regards
Christian
CHRISTIAN BECKER
System Engineer
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