TS - Maintenance Mode for a group of hosts? 🔗 link

I have a request to take an entire area of hosts and place setup a
maintenance window starting at a certain time and for say 3 hours.

Is there a script that I can send it a list and have it place all of the
devices in maintenance mode?

 
All corporate servers will require a window of 3 hours at 6pm tonight.

Also, is there any option on the HOST line that will not show up (like
an actual comment not the COMMENT: entry) that can be used to select
them from.

e.g.  the word 'CORP' in the options like that will normally be ignored
by Xymon?

 
I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2.

 
Also, is there a way to show the COMMENT or DESCRIPTION on the line like
it does in the non-green view under this release?

 
Thanks,

 
Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff

Salt Lake City, UT  XXXXX

Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX

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It is not necessary to change.

Survival is not mandatory.

        -- W. Edwards Deming

You should be able to go into the Administration -> Enable/disable menu,
select multiple hosts (ctrl-click for individual selection, shift-click
for a top to bottom selection), and then put in a start/stop, duration
and "reason".

 
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Of user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:51 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] TS - Maintenance Mode for a group of hosts?

 
I have a request to take an entire area of hosts and place setup a
maintenance window starting at a certain time and for say 3 hours.

Is there a script that I can send it a list and have it place all of the
devices in maintenance mode?

 
All corporate servers will require a window of 3 hours at 6pm tonight.

Also, is there any option on the HOST line that will not show up (like
an actual comment not the COMMENT: entry) that can be used to select
them from.

e.g.  the word 'CORP' in the options like that will normally be ignored
by Xymon?

 
I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2.

 
Also, is there a way to show the COMMENT or DESCRIPTION on the line like
it does in the non-green view under this release?

 
Thanks,

 
Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff

Salt Lake City, UT  XXXXX

Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX

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Have A Nice Day !

 
It is not necessary to change.

Survival is not mandatory.

        -- W. Edwards Deming

 

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Tom,

$ man Xymon

       disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text>
              Disables a specific test for DURATION minutes. This will cause the status of this test to be listed as "blue" on the Xymon  server,  and
              no alerts for this host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as a number followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being in sec-
              onds/minutes/hours/days respectively.   To disable a test until it becomes OK, use "-1" as the DURATION.   To disable all  tests  for  a
              host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME.

       enable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME
              Re-enables a test that had been disabled.

Shouldn't be hard to roll your own script from here or I can share a rather simple script we use.


David Gore (v965-3670)
Network Management Systems (NMS)
IMPACT Transport Team Lead - SCSA, SCNA
Page: 1-800-PAG-eMCI pin 1406090
Vnet: 965-3676

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 09:51
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] TS - Maintenance Mode for a group of hosts?

I have a request to take an entire area of hosts and place setup a maintenance window starting at a certain time and for say 3 hours.
Is there a script that I can send it a list and have it place all of the devices in maintenance mode?

All corporate servers will require a window of 3 hours at 6pm tonight.
Also, is there any option on the HOST line that will not show up (like an actual comment not the COMMENT: entry) that can be used to select them from.
e.g.  the word 'CORP' in the options like that will normally be ignored by Xymon?

I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2.

Also, is there a way to show the COMMENT or DESCRIPTION on the line like it does in the non-green view under this release?

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt
Senior IT Staff
Salt Lake City, UT  XXXXX
Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX
            \\\\||////
               \ ~  ~ /
               | @  @ |
--oOo---(_)---oOo--
Have A Nice Day !

It is not necessary to change.
Survival is not mandatory.
        -- W. Edwards Deming

If you only want the "disable" or "enable" to apply to a group of hosts,
you can search for hosts matching any tag you wish using xymongrep.  So for
instance, if you have the following:

192.168.1.1 www.test.com # http telnet CORP
192.168.1.2 mail.test.com # smtp telnet FINANCE
192.168.1.3 ftp.test.com # ftp ssh CORP

Then you can disable the first and third (in "CORP" group) for 90 minutes
with:

xymongrep CORP | while read IP NAME REST; do xymon $XYMSRV "disable $NAME.*
90m disabled group 1 servers"; done

If you want to disable at a future time, use the "schedule" command to
submit the "disable" command at the right time.  Or put the above into a
script and schedule it using "at".

You can be very flexible with the entries in the host.cfg file, and they
are normally ignored by Xymon unless then happen to match a test tag being
used elsewhere.  So instead of "CORP" and "FINANCE" you could have
"GROUP=corp" and "GROUP=finance", and then match that string format
appropriately, such as: xymongrep GROUP=corp.  You're less likely to match
another tag this way.

Then you can match all hosts that are in any group with: xymongrep
'GROUP=*'.  You can even have hosts in multiple groups like:
GROUP=CORP,Linux,prod; then match all corporate hosts with something like:
xymongrep 'GROUP=' | egrep '=CORP|,CORP'

If you already have "NET:location" definitions in hosts.cfg, then you can
match these with: xymongrep 'NET:*'  Or you can match any untagged entries
with

See the man page on xymongrep for more info.

J

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