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config report from command line?

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list John Rothlisberger · Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:24:27 +0000 · 
I am currently using Xymon 4.3.0 (Yeah, I know, I need to upgrade) on Ubuntu 12.04LTS.

I am writing a perl script to parse my configuration and send it in a spreadsheet format.  I have been able to get through most everything but I want to include who gets alerted (or what scripts).  But, I have not found an easy way to do this from the command line.  Has anyone else tried this or have ideas?

I have tried using wget to get configreport.sh and then html2text but this is not easily parsed either.  This cannot be done by just grepping through the alerts.cfg file as a host may be defined in multiple rules (HOST=*server*, HOST=testserver, PAGE=TEST, etc).

Thanks,
John
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list Martin Flemming · Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:46:13 +0200 (CEST) ·
▸ quoted from John Rothlisberger
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid wrote:

I am currently using Xymon 4.3.0 (Yeah, I know, I need to upgrade) on Ubuntu 12.04LTS.
 
I am writing a perl script to parse my configuration and send it in a spreadsheet format.  I have been able to get through most everything but I want to include who gets
alerted (or what scripts).  But, I have not found an easy way to do this from the command line.  Has anyone else tried this or have ideas?
 
I have tried using wget to get configreport.sh and then html2text but this is not easily parsed either.  This cannot be done by just grepping through the alerts.cfg file as
a host may be defined in multiple rules (HOST=*server*, HOST=testserver, PAGE=TEST, etc).
 

Hi !

Maybe you find somthing useful on this side

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xymon/index.php?title=Perl_Library_Discussion

.. by the way, i'm interesting for your script :-)

cheers,

        Martin
list John Rothlisberger · Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:37:19 +0000 · 
Although those modules look like they could be interesting the documentation is useless or non-existent.

I would be happy to share once I get something useful put together.
▸ quoted from John Rothlisberger

Thanks,
John
Upcoming PTO: None
John Rothlisberger
IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform
TGP for Business Process Outsourcing
Accenture
XXX.XXX.XXXX office

-----Original Message-----

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Martin
Flemming
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:46 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] config report from command line?
▸ quoted from Martin Flemming

On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid wrote:

I am currently using Xymon 4.3.0 (Yeah, I know, I need to upgrade) on Ubuntu
12.04LTS.
I am writing a perl script to parse my configuration and send it in a
spreadsheet format.  I have been able to get through most everything but I want
to include who gets alerted (or what scripts).  But, I have not found an easy way to
do this from the command line.  Has anyone else tried this or have ideas?

I have tried using wget to get configreport.sh and then html2text but
this is not easily parsed either.  This cannot be done by just grepping through the
alerts.cfg file as a host may be defined in multiple rules (HOST=*server*,
HOST=testserver, PAGE=TEST, etc).
Hi !

Maybe you find somthing useful on this side


http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xymon/index.php?title=Perl_Library_Discuss
ion
▸ quoted from John Rothlisberger

.. by the way, i'm interesting for your script :-)

cheers,

        Martin
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list David Mills · Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:38:18 +0000 · 
Martin --

I've written a Perl program to parse and maintain the files associated with hosts.cfg in our installation. As part of that program, I've written a couple of routines that parse out and report on host/page "matches" in alerts.cfg.

The parsing routine is not comprehensive of all allowable syntax for alerts.cfg (e.g. it's not up to digesting line continuations, interpreting macros, etc.), and it assumes the presence of certain comment lines embedded in the file, used in our environment to identify groupings of alerts associated with our teams. We use this mostly to see which hosts/pages belong to which teams. It does not dump out the actual mailing rules, though that would be a simple mod.

If you are interested in seeing some of that code, please contact me.

Sample output from one such run:

~/hobbit> ./hobcfgadm.pl --dump-alerts
Vers 2.44
TEAM: C & C
HOST:
Matches (name fragment): xwrl0(0[6-9]|1[01])

TEAM: Content Management
HOST:
Matches (name fragment): (xwau02[23]|ccp)

TEAM: DBA's
HOST:
Matches (name fragment): (awdu|xwdu)

TEAM: EA
PAGE:
Matches: Winters/urls_dev/prodfix_websvcs
Matches: Winters/urls_dev/sit1_websvcs
Matches: Winters/urls_dev/sit2_websvcs
Matches: Winters/urls_dev/uat1_websvcs
Matches: Winters/urls_dev/uat2_websvcs
...

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
(XXX) XXX-XXXX
▸ quoted from John Rothlisberger

From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid [user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 12:37 PM
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Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] config report from command line?

Although those modules look like they could be interesting the documentation is useless or non-existent.

I would be happy to share once I get something useful put together.

Thanks,
John
Upcoming PTO: None
John Rothlisberger
IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform
TGP for Business Process Outsourcing
Accenture
XXX.XXX.XXXX office

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Martin
Flemming
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:46 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] config report from command line?

On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid wrote:

I am currently using Xymon 4.3.0 (Yeah, I know, I need to upgrade) on Ubuntu
12.04LTS.
I am writing a perl script to parse my configuration and send it in a
spreadsheet format. I have been able to get through most everything but I want
to include who gets alerted (or what scripts). But, I have not found an easy way to
do this from the command line. Has anyone else tried this or have ideas?

I have tried using wget to get configreport.sh and then html2text but
this is not easily parsed either. This cannot be done by just grepping through the
alerts.cfg file as a host may be defined in multiple rules (HOST=*server*,
HOST=testserver, PAGE=TEST, etc).
Hi !

Maybe you find somthing useful on this side

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xymon/index.php?title=Perl_Library_Discuss
ion

.. by the way, i'm interesting for your script :-)

cheers,

Martin
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list Jeremy Laidman · Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:27:48 +1000 ·
▸ quoted from David Mills
On 7 June 2013 23:24, <user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid> wrote:

but I want to include who gets alerted (or what scripts).  But, I have not
found an easy way to do this from the command line.  Has anyone else tried
this or have ideas?

What about using the xymond_alert tool.  You can give it a "--dump-config"
switch to - well - dump the config.  Also, you can use the "--test" switch
to display all scripts tied to a given host/test combination.

J
list John Rothlisberger · Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:28:25 +0000 · 
I have explored xymond_alert and unless you know something I don't it lacks the information that I am looking for.

For example, if I do:
xymond_alert --test webserver1 conn --color=red --duration=620 --cfid|grep -v Failed

The only semi-useful line is:
00003412 2013-06-14 08:19:33 *** Match with 'PAGE=%.*/ORD EXPAGE=%.*/ORD_DEV EXHOST=app1,app2,db1,db2  EXSERVICE=virtuals COLOR=red,yellow' ***

It does not include the actual actions to be performed that are contained within that match.  For this particular page match, I have 4 separate scripts that can be run:

-          If SERVICE=cpu & COLOR=red

-          If COLOR=red & EXSERVICE=cpu,virtuals,procs <<-- This one should be matched/run

-          If SERVICE=procs & COLOR=red

-          Match all <<- This one should be matched/run

None of the details of what is actually done are displayed.  I know that Xymon can do all of this because, well, it does.  But how can I parse it out via command line?
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Thanks,
John
Upcoming PTO: None
John Rothlisberger
IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform
TGP for Business Process Outsourcing
Accenture
XXX.XXX.XXXX office
▸ quoted from Jeremy Laidman
From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:28 PM
To: Rothlisberger, John R.
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] config report from command line?

On 7 June 2013 23:24, <user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-7adce57665bb@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
but I want to include who gets alerted (or what scripts).  But, I have not found an easy way to do this from the command line.  Has anyone else tried this or have ideas?

What about using the xymond_alert tool.  You can give it a "--dump-config" switch to - well - dump the config.  Also, you can use the "--test" switch to display all scripts tied to a given host/test combination.

J


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