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Hi ****Vernon****,****
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I’ve user-eecb411e3384@xymon.invalid 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,****
Neil Simmonds
Operations Analyst
Operations Support Group
Express Gifts Ltd.
user-8188d25e65e4@xymon.invalid ****
Tel :- 01254 303092
Fax :- 01254 303100 ****
*From:* Vernon Everett [mailto:user-b3f8dacb72c8@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* 17 November 2011 09:06
*To:* Neil Simmonds
*Cc:* Xymon Mailing List
*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Automated remedial actions****
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Check the man page for Alerts.****
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?****
I leave that for you to decide. :-)****
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Regards****
****Vernon********
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On 17 November 2011 16:05, Neil Simmonds <
user-8188d25e65e4@xymon.invalid> wrote:****
Hi all,****
****
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,****
Neil Simmonds
Operations Analyst
Operations Support Group
Express Gifts Ltd.
user-8188d25e65e4@xymon.invalid ****
Tel :- 01254 303092
Fax :- 01254 303100 ****
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