On Tuesday, 4 May 2010 19:07:06 Peter Toft wrote:
Hi all
I have Xymon/hobbit monitoring a Debian box, which has a nice SERVICE=apt
monitor on it. I often see that an update is needed - typically it comes 5
minutes AFTER I leave my server :) Thus I often have my server showing
yellow service flag for the apt-service until I get home in the evening. I
can obviously acknowledge this warning from the Xymon web-interface, but
has anyone of you been extending Xymon for handling apt-updating via the
webinterface?
Why do you need Xymon's interaction if you're just going to auto-install
patches? Why not just put the relevant apt-get command in cron?
(We have an updates check for RHN/yum, but it is so we can know when to log
changes to apply updates)
Regards,
Buchan