maint mode from command line
list Kevin Hanrahan
Hi, Is there a way to issue a command to put a list of servers into maint mode instead of having to select them from the GUI? I would like to maybe automate this with a cron job Thank kh ----------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this e-mail and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the e-mail from your computer. Elavon (formerly NOVA Information Systems)
list Cathy Smith
Hi I've had a system owner ask me to re-prioritize an alert so the hobbit ignores the message in the log on a specific server. The default alert marks the message as Red. The server runs Windows 2003. Can someone tell how to go about doing that or where to read about doing that? Is this done on the client or server? Thanks for the help. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
list Ralph Mitchell
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Hanrahan, Kevin
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Hi, Is there a way to issue a command to put a list of servers into maint mode instead of having to select them from the GUI? I would like to maybe automate this with a cron job
Take a look at the bb man page: http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bb.1.html You'll find the syntax for both disable and enable status messages near the top. Ralph Mitchell
list Rich Smrcina
Reprioritize is probably the wrong terminology. If there is a rule in hobbit-clients.cfg for that server and the owner wants it removed, then just remove them. The default behaviour is to not monitor log entries. The column should eventually turn white. If it turns purple, you may need to remove the historical log entries. If it's a specific rule that needs to be removed, then delete it from hobbit-clients.cfg for that host. See the man page of hobbit-clients.cfg for details.
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Smith, Cathy wrote:Hi I've had a system owner ask me to re-prioritize an alert so the hobbit ignores the message in the log on a specific server. The default alert marks the message as Red. The server runs Windows 2003. Can someone tell how to go about doing that or where to read about doing that? Is this done on the client or server? Thanks for the help. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
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Rich Smrcina
list Cathy Smith
There isn't a rule, and I need to create one. This message from the event log gets flagged as Red in the msgs column. I realize that hobbit does age it out, but the owner doesn't want that specific message reported.
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Cathy
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Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
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From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:11 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Reprioritize an alert
Reprioritize is probably the wrong terminology. If there is a rule in
hobbit-clients.cfg for that server and the owner wants it removed, then
just remove them. The default behaviour is to not monitor log entries.
The column should eventually turn white. If it turns purple, you may
need to remove the historical log entries. If it's a specific rule that
needs to be removed, then delete it from hobbit-clients.cfg for that
host.
See the man page of hobbit-clients.cfg for details.
Smith, Cathy wrote:Hi I've had a system owner ask me to re-prioritize an alert so the hobbit
ignores the message in the log on a specific server. The default alert marks the message as Red. The server runs Windows 2003. Can someone tell how to go about doing that or where to read about doing that? Is this done on the client or server? Thanks for the help. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
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list Rich Smrcina
Sorry, yeah this is Windows... which Windows client are you using?
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Smith, Cathy wrote:There isn't a rule, and I need to create one. This message from the event log gets flagged as Red in the msgs column. I realize that hobbit does age it out, but the owner doesn't want that specific message reported. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
-- Rich Smrcina
list Cathy Smith
It is Big Brother SNM Client 1.08d. The server runs Windows Server 2003 R2.
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Cathy
--- Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
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From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:30 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Reprioritize an alert
Sorry, yeah this is Windows... which Windows client are you using?
Smith, Cathy wrote:There isn't a rule, and I need to create one. This message from the event log gets flagged as Red in the msgs column. I realize that hobbit does age it out, but the owner doesn't want that specific message reported. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
-- Rich Smrcina
list Rich Smrcina
You may need to check the readme for specifics, but in the client there is a way to 'ignore' specific message text from log monitoring. I don't recall for sure, but it may be a ! directive in front of the message text.
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Smith, Cathy wrote:It is Big Brother SNM Client 1.08d. The server runs Windows Server 2003 R2. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
-- Rich Smrcina
list Cathy Smith
Thanks very much. I'll give it a try.
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Cathy
--- Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
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From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:04 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Reprioritize an alert
You may need to check the readme for specifics, but in the client there is a way to 'ignore' specific message text from log monitoring. I don't recall for sure, but it may be a ! directive in front of the
message text.
Smith, Cathy wrote:It is Big Brother SNM Client 1.08d. The server runs Windows Server
2003
R2. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid XXX.XXX.XXXX
-- Rich Smrcina
list T.J. Yang
You can also see an example script at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#How_do_I_clone_maintenance_records_from_one_xymon_to_the_other_one_.3F T.J. Yang
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:59:55 -0400 From: user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Subject: Re: [hobbit] maint mode from command line On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Hanrahan, Kevin <user-645bd845ecbd@xymon.invalid> wrote: Hi, Is there a way to issue a command to put a list of servers into maint mode instead of having to select them from the GUI? I would like to maybe automate this with a cron job Take a look at the bb man page: http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bb.1.html You'll find the syntax for both disable and enable status messages near the top. Ralph Mitchell
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list Cathy Smith
Can someone recommend directions for setting up an SMS server and integrating it with hobbit? I'm a novice about this, so something that is written well would be appreciative. There seems to be a lot on Google when I did a simple search. Thanks. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
list Galen Johnson
There is an article in this month's Linux Journal for setting up Nagios/SMS that might be adaptable to Xymon. I'm still working my way to it (just came in yesterday) so I don't know how specific it gets, yet. =G=
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From: Smith, Cathy [mailto:user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:39 PM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: [hobbit] Setting up SMS server and hobbit
Can someone recommend directions for setting up an SMS server and integrating it with hobbit? I'm a novice about this, so something that is written well would be appreciative. There seems to be a lot on Google when I did a simple search.
Thanks.
Cathy
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Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
list Cathy Smith
Galan That article is what prompted the request that I look at setting up hobbit with SMS. I haven't had a chance to read it this morning.
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Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
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From: Galen Johnson [mailto:user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:30 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] RE: Setting up SMS server and hobbit
There is an article in this month's Linux Journal for setting up Nagios/SMS that might be adaptable to Xymon. I'm still working my way to it (just came in yesterday) so I don't know how specific it gets, yet.
=G=
From: Smith, Cathy [mailto:user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:39 PM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: [hobbit] Setting up SMS server and hobbit
Can someone recommend directions for setting up an SMS server and integrating it with hobbit? I'm a novice about this, so something that is written well would be appreciative. There seems to be a lot on Google when I did a simple search.
Thanks.
Cathy
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Cathy L. Smith
IT Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Phone: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Fax: XXX.XXX.XXXX
Email: user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid
list Stef Coene
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On Thursday 11 February 2010, Smith, Cathy wrote:
Can someone recommend directions for setting up an SMS server and integrating it with hobbit? I'm a novice about this, so something that is written well would be appreciative. There seems to be a lot on Google when I did a simple search.
We use gnokii and serial attached siemens m20 sms box. I have 2 of them and they are rock solid. gnokii uses a mysql database. so a simple insert in the outbox table is enough to send a sms. Stef PS: our monitor setup is much more complicated. We use 2 SMS gateways and 2 dialers (asterisk software connected to a VoIP box) in 2 different countries. Each customer has a monitor server that can connect to the dialers if there is an alert. The dialer calls the system engineer and sends a sms.
list Buchan Milne
Please consider quoting properly.
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On Thursday, 11 February 2010 20:35:21 Smith, Cathy wrote:Galan That article is what prompted the request that I look at setting up hobbit with SMS. I haven't had a chance to read it this morning.
The xymon part should be trivial, assuming your SMS software (which is surely covered in the article in question) can accept email, or can be driven by a command-line tool. Please see the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page, and search for "SMS". If you get stuck, ask some specific technical questions.
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From: Galen Johnson [mailto:user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:30 AM To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Subject: [hobbit] RE: Setting up SMS server and hobbit There is an article in this month's Linux Journal for setting up Nagios/SMS that might be adaptable to Xymon. I'm still working my way to it (just came in yesterday) so I don't know how specific it gets, yet. =G= From: Smith, Cathy [mailto:user-332e187d7d6d@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:39 PM To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid' Subject: [hobbit] Setting up SMS server and hobbit Can someone recommend directions for setting up an SMS server and integrating it with hobbit? I'm a novice about this, so something that is written well would be appreciative. There seems to be a lot on Google when I did a simple search.
And none of them were of any assistance? Regards, Buchan