Alerting on Server Reboot
list Pnixon
Hey all, Does anyone have a recommended solution for triggering an alert when a server is rebooted? Assuming it comes back up within the ping cycle, the conn test still passes. I'm aware that the CPU turns yellow due to the reboot, but is it possible to build an alert rule to trigger on ServerX CPU = Yellow? Thanks for any feedback... --Pat
list Dan Vande More
Pat, One of the things I've done in the past is have a init.d script (For linux at least), that emails your account that the server just booted. Something like this: #!/bin/sh echo "`hostname -f` just rebooted!" | mail -s "`hostname -f` just rebooted!" user-d7ae79a03f32@xymon.invalid EOF Maybe you could just append that to your hobbit client's init scripts? In any case, I'd be interested to see what others have to say as well. -Dan
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On 2/2/06, user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid <user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid> wrote:Hey all, Does anyone have a recommended solution for triggering an alert when a server is rebooted? Assuming it comes back up within the ping cycle, the conn test still passes. I'm aware that the CPU turns yellow due to the reboot, but is it possible to build an alert rule to trigger on ServerX CPU = Yellow? Thanks for any feedback... --Pat
list Pnixon
Doh! Forgot to mention this is primarily for Windows Servers (I know, I know, not my group :) --Pat
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Vande More [mailto:user-f3c4c62d9d50@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:54 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alerting on Server Reboot
Pat,
One of the things I've done in the past is have a init.d script (For linux
at least), that emails your account that the server just booted.
Something like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "`hostname -f` just rebooted!" | mail -s "`hostname -f` just rebooted!"
user-d7ae79a03f32@xymon.invalid
EOF
Maybe you could just append that to your hobbit client's init scripts?
In any case, I'd be interested to see what others have to say as well.
-Dan
On 2/2/06, user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid <user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid> wrote:Hey all, Does anyone have a recommended solution for triggering an alert when a server is rebooted? Assuming it comes back up within the ping cycle, the conn test still passes. I'm aware that the CPU turns yellow due to the reboot, but is it possible to build an alert rule to trigger on ServerX CPU = Yellow? Thanks for any feedback... --Pat
list John A. Milburn
If the servers are part of an Active Directory domain, you can use a policy to run a script at startup. I use one that writes an event log entry in a management server and sends an email to the admins.
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-----Original Message-----
From: user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:03 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alerting on Server Reboot
Doh!
Forgot to mention this is primarily for Windows Servers (I know, I know,
not
my group :)
--Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Vande More [mailto:user-f3c4c62d9d50@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:54 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alerting on Server Reboot
Pat,
One of the things I've done in the past is have a init.d script (For
linux
at least), that emails your account that the server just booted.
Something like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "`hostname -f` just rebooted!" | mail -s "`hostname -f` just
rebooted!"
user-d7ae79a03f32@xymon.invalid
EOF
Maybe you could just append that to your hobbit client's init scripts?
In any case, I'd be interested to see what others have to say as well.
-Dan
On 2/2/06, user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid <user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid>
wrote:Hey all, Does anyone have a recommended solution for triggering an alert when a server is rebooted? Assuming it comes back up within the ping cycle, the conn test still passes. I'm aware that the CPU turns yellow due to the reboot, but is it possible to build an alert rule to trigger on ServerX CPU = Yellow? Thanks for any feedback... --Pat