Modifying scheduled disable/enable
list Mike Burger
We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled" from 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning. I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959 to 0101. I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only an option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can modify the schedule. I've found $XYMONHOME/server/tmp/xymond.chk, and tried modifying that file, but the changes do not seem to be filtering into the Maintenance screen. Is there a file that I can modify? If so, where is it? Thank you. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
list Josh Luthman
Can you just do a second one limited to that extra hour? Josh Luthman Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX XXXX Wayne St Suite XXXX Troy, OH XXXXX
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On Oct 31, 2013 11:10 AM, "Mike Burger" <user-cc5c6e80f4c5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled" from 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning. I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959 to 0101. I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only an option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can modify the schedule. I've found $XYMONHOME/server/tmp/xymond.chk, and tried modifying that file, but the changes do not seem to be filtering into the Maintenance screen. Is there a file that I can modify? If so, where is it? Thank you. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
list Tom Diehl
Hi Mike,
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Mike Burger wrote:
We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled" from 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning. I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959 to 0101. I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only an option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can modify the schedule.
Unless I am missing something it is as simple going into the gui and disabling them again with the correct schedule. I have done that many times. Last change wins. Regards, -- Tom user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid Spamtrap address user-4d123f9c385b@xymon.invalid
list Mike Burger
Oh, absolutely...that's no more difficult than having set up the initial schedule. It's just more of a kludge than I was hoping to use, and could end up leaving a more convoluted and messy looking schedule on the maintenance page. As other tools have the ability to modify a maintenance schedule once it's been set, I'm looking for a simple way to do so here, as well.
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-- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
Can you just do a second one limited to that extra hour? Josh Luthman Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX XXXX Wayne St Suite XXXX Troy, OH XXXXX On Oct 31, 2013 11:10 AM, "Mike Burger" <user-cc5c6e80f4c5@xymon.invalid> wrote:We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled" from 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning. I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959 to 0101. I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only an option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can modify the schedule. I've found $XYMONHOME/server/tmp/xymond.chk, and tried modifying that file, but the changes do not seem to be filtering into the Maintenance screen. Is there a file that I can modify? If so, where is it? Thank you. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
list Ralph Mitchell
I believe the xymond.chk is a checkpoint file, where Xymon remembers the state of the world to be able to reload it on restarting. You'd probably need to shutdown xymon, edit the file, then restart xymon. Ralph Mitchell
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On Oct 31, 2013 11:10 AM, "Mike Burger" <user-cc5c6e80f4c5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled" from 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning. I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959 to 0101. I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only an option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can modify the schedule. I've found $XYMONHOME/server/tmp/xymond.chk, and tried modifying that file, but the changes do not seem to be filtering into the Maintenance screen. Is there a file that I can modify? If so, where is it? Thank you. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
list Ryan Novosielski
Yes, this works. I assumed the original poster didn't want the tedium of editing them all in the GUI all over again, but I realized he didn't say that necessarily. Don't forget, if that is what you want, you can at least script this on the command line using the xymon command (which can use wildcards too, if your servers happen to be named that way).
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Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:22 AM
To: Mike Burger <user-cc5c6e80f4c5@xymon.invalid>
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Modifying scheduled disable/enable
Hi Mike,
On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Mike Burger wrote:
We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled" from 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning. I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959 to 0101. I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only an option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can modify the schedule.
Unless I am missing something it is as simple going into the gui and disabling them again with the correct schedule. I have done that many times. Last change wins. Regards, -- Tom user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid Spamtrap address user-4d123f9c385b@xymon.invalid
list Mike Burger
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Yes, this works. I assumed the original poster didn't want the tedium of editing them all in the GUI all over again, but I realized he didn't say that necessarily. Don't forget, if that is what you want, you can at least script this on the command line using the xymon command (which can use wildcards too, if your servers happen to be named that way). ----- Original Message ----- From: user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:22 AM To: Mike Burger <user-cc5c6e80f4c5@xymon.invalid> Cc: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Modifying scheduled disable/enable Hi Mike, On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Mike Burger wrote:We have maintenance scheduled for 14 servers in our environment this Saturday night. Knowing that the systems could be rebooted, etc, anytime between 9PM and 1AM, I've prescheduled these servers to be "disabled" from 2059 on Saturday night thru 0101 on Sunday morning. I'm now being given a directive to have these systems disabled from 1959 to 0101. I'd like to be able to modify the existing schedule, without having to remove and recreate them. As the GUI doesn't provide this option (only an option to cancel), I'm hoping that I can find a file wherein I can modify the schedule.Unless I am missing something it is as simple going into the gui and disabling them again with the correct schedule. I have done that many times. Last change wins.
That's correct. As there's currently no facility to edit the schedules via the GUI (perhaps I should submit that as a feature request), I was hoping to find a file where I could modify the (Unix) start time and duration (as that's how they appear to be stored, when I look at them in the xymond.chk file).