dnsreg script question

9 messages in this thread

list Russell Blumenthal · Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:29:36 -0400 ·

I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install
it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain).
Any help would be appreciated.

 
Thanks

 
./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20
17:27:42 EDT 2012

 
Domain mydomain.com expires on

: command not found

 
The script looks like this:

 
#!/bin/sh

 
# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to
expire.

#

# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.

#       Requires GNU date.

#       Should run only once a day.

 
NOW=`date "+%s"`

WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days

ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day

 
/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L

do

      set $L

      DOMAIN=$2

 
      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i
"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed
-e's/^[     ]*//'`"

      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`

 
      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME

      then

         COLOR=red

      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME

      then

         COLOR=yellow

      else

         COLOR=green

      fi

 
      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

 
Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING

"

done

list Darin D [eit] Dugan · Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:05:02 +0000 ·

I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path.

▸ quoted from Russell Blumenthal


From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Russell Blumenthal
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question

I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks


./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20 17:27:42 EDT 2012

Domain mydomain.com expires on
: command not found


The script looks like this:


#!/bin/sh

# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire.
#
# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.
#       Requires GNU date.
#       Should run only once a day.

NOW=`date "+%s"`
WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days
ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L
do
      set $L
      DOMAIN=$2

      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[     ]*//'`"
      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`

      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME
      then
         COLOR=red
      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME
      then
         COLOR=yellow
      else
         COLOR=green
      fi

      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING
"
done

list Russell Blumenthal · Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:08:56 -0400 ·

I installed  'whois' and I am able to do a manual query 'whois
domain.com'. but unable to run the script manually to test it.

▸ quoted from Darin D [eit] Dugan


From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

 
I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path.

 
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
Of Russell Blumenthal
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question

 
I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install
it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain).
Any help would be appreciated.

 
Thanks

 
./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20
17:27:42 EDT 2012

 
Domain mydomain.com expires on

: command not found

 
The script looks like this:

 
#!/bin/sh

 
# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to
expire.

#

# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.

#       Requires GNU date.

#       Should run only once a day.

 
NOW=`date "+%s"`

WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days

ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day

 
/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L

do

      set $L

      DOMAIN=$2

 
      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i
"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed
-e's/^[     ]*//'`"

      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`

 
      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME

      then

         COLOR=red

      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME

      then

         COLOR=yellow

      else

         COLOR=green

      fi

 
      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

 
Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING

"

done

list Darin D [eit] Dugan · Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:49:31 +0000 ·

Rereading your message, it seems perhaps $XYMON or $XYMDISP are not populated. Are you running this under xymoncmd to set the environment? I run from cron daily with:

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg /home/xymon/server/ext/dnsreg

A few other differences in my script:

1.       I'm using $XYMSRV instead of $XYMDISP. Hmm...I don't have a $XYMDISP anywhere, maybe $BBDISP wasn't updated to $XYMSRV properly?

2.       Added a "sleep 60" command before "done". Whois seems to get angry with me if I query a bunch of domains in quick succession.

3.       Had to modify the sed commands for EXPIRESTRING:
EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^\s*//' | sed -e's/\s.*//'`"

Cheers.

▸ quoted from Russell Blumenthal

From: Russell Blumenthal [mailto:user-b99daaa10117@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:09 AM
To: Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

I installed  'whois' and I am able to do a manual query 'whois domain.com'. but unable to run the script manually to test it.
From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Russell Blumenthal
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question

I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20 17:27:42 EDT 2012

Domain mydomain.com expires on
: command not found

The script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire.
#
# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.
#       Requires GNU date.
#       Should run only once a day.

NOW=`date "+%s"`
WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days
ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L
do
      set $L
      DOMAIN=$2

      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[     ]*//'`"
      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`

      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME
      then
         COLOR=red
      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME
      then
         COLOR=yellow
      else
         COLOR=green
      fi

      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING
"
done

list Russell Blumenthal · Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:11:23 -0400 ·

Ok let me tweak it around. What does this line do anyhow? I keep seeing
that pop up and then the error about command being not found

thanks

 
"status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

▸ quoted from Darin D [eit] Dugan

From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 10:50 AM
To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

Rereading your message, it seems perhaps $XYMON or $XYMDISP are not
populated. Are you running this under xymoncmd to set the environment? I
run from cron daily with:

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd
--env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
/home/xymon/server/ext/dnsreg

A few other differences in my script:

1.       I'm using $XYMSRV instead of $XYMDISP. Hmm...I don't have a
$XYMDISP anywhere, maybe $BBDISP wasn't updated to $XYMSRV properly?

2.       Added a "sleep 60" command before "done". Whois seems to get
angry with me if I query a bunch of domains in quick succession.

3.       Had to modify the sed commands for EXPIRESTRING:
EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i
"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed
-e's/^\s*//' | sed -e's/\s.*//'`"

Cheers.

From: Russell Blumenthal [mailto:user-b99daaa10117@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:09 AM
To: Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

I installed  'whois' and I am able to do a manual query 'whois
domain.com'. but unable to run the script manually to test it. 

From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
Of Russell Blumenthal
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question

I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install
it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain).
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20
17:27:42 EDT 2012

Domain mydomain.com expires on

: command not found

The script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to
expire.

#

# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.

#       Requires GNU date.

#       Should run only once a day.

NOW=`date "+%s"`

WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days

ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L

do

      set $L

      DOMAIN=$2

      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i
"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed
-e's/^[     ]*//'`"

      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`

      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME

      then

         COLOR=red

      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME

      then

         COLOR=yellow

      else

         COLOR=green

      fi

      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING

"

done

list Darin D [eit] Dugan · Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:44:34 +0000 ·

The line in your last message is incomplete. The whole command is:

$XYMON $XYMSRV "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING
"

Which translates to something like:

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymon 1.2.3.4 "status+9000 domain.com.dnsreg green Fri Sep 21 11:45:06 CDT 2012

Domain domain.com expires on 30-Nov-2012
"

Which means the 'xymon' program is sending to the xymon server on 1.2.3.4, everything in double quotes. Which happens to be a status message for host domain.com, test dnsreg, green status, then the extra text of the date, blank line, "Domain ....". When the test appears in the web pages the status will be reflected and the extra text will be shown on screen.

▸ quoted from Russell Blumenthal

Cheers.

From: Russell Blumenthal [mailto:user-b99daaa10117@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:11 AM
To: Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

Ok let me tweak it around. What does this line do anyhow? I keep seeing that pop up and then the error about command being not found
thanks

"status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`
From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 10:50 AM
To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

Rereading your message, it seems perhaps $XYMON or $XYMDISP are not populated. Are you running this under xymoncmd to set the environment? I run from cron daily with:

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg /home/xymon/server/ext/dnsreg

A few other differences in my script:

1.       I'm using $XYMSRV instead of $XYMDISP. Hmm...I don't have a $XYMDISP anywhere, maybe $BBDISP wasn't updated to $XYMSRV properly?

2.       Added a "sleep 60" command before "done". Whois seems to get angry with me if I query a bunch of domains in quick succession.

3.       Had to modify the sed commands for EXPIRESTRING:
EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^\s*//' | sed -e's/\s.*//'`"

Cheers.

From: Russell Blumenthal [mailto:user-b99daaa10117@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:09 AM
To: Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

I installed  'whois' and I am able to do a manual query 'whois domain.com'. but unable to run the script manually to test it.
From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Russell Blumenthal
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question

I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20 17:27:42 EDT 2012

Domain mydomain.com expires on
: command not found

The script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire.
#
# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.
#       Requires GNU date.
#       Should run only once a day.

NOW=`date "+%s"`
WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days
ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L
do
      set $L
      DOMAIN=$2

      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[     ]*//'`"
      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`

      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME
      then
         COLOR=red
      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME
      then
         COLOR=yellow
      else
         COLOR=green
      fi

      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING
"
done

list Nicolas Lienard · Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:21:15 +0200 ·

hi

To debug your script; run it like that: sh -x ./dnsreg.sh
you ll see where the error is directly.

don't forget to load xymon env before : ~xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd

cheers
nico

▸ quoted from Russell Blumenthal


Le 20 sept. 2012 à 23:29, Russell Blumenthal a écrit :

I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain). Any help would be appreciated.
 
Thanks
 
 
./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20 17:27:42 EDT 2012
 
Domain mydomain.com expires on
: command not found
 
 
The script looks like this:
 
 
#!/bin/sh
 
# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire.
#
# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.
#       Requires GNU date.
#       Should run only once a day.
 
NOW=`date "+%s"`
WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days
ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day
 
/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L
do
      set $L
      DOMAIN=$2
 
      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[     ]*//'`"
      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`
 
      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME
      then
         COLOR=red
      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME
      then
         COLOR=yellow
      else
         COLOR=green
      fi
 
      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`
 
Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING
"
done

list John Tullis · Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:50:03 +0000 ·

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread.

I added the sleep to the command because I'm running bbcmd on a few hundred domains. The script failed to run and I'm not sure why.

My other issue is that there are a few domains that I want to run individually instead of it running the script on all the domains. Is there a way to kick off a test for a single host?
I tried using "bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test domain.com dnsreg" but that only told me what alert rules applied to this but didn't update anything. Is there some command where I can tell a specific domain to do a fresh dnsreg?

John Tullis

▸ quoted from Darin D [eit] Dugan



Ok let me tweak it around. What does this line do anyhow? I keep seeing

that pop up and then the error about command being not found


thanks


"status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`


From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid<

Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 10:50 AM

To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com<

Subject: RE: dnsreg script question


Rereading your message, it seems perhaps $XYMON or $XYMDISP are not

populated. Are you running this under xymoncmd to set the environment? I

run from cron daily with:


/home/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd

--env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg

/home/xymon/server/ext/dnsreg


A few other differences in my script:


1.       I'm using $XYMSRV instead of $XYMDISP. Hmm...I don't have a

$XYMDISP anywhere, maybe $BBDISP wasn't updated to $XYMSRV properly?


2.       Added a "sleep 60" command before "done". Whois seems to get

angry with me if I query a bunch of domains in quick succession.


3.       Had to modify the sed commands for EXPIRESTRING:

EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i

"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed

-e's/^\s*//' | sed -e's/\s.*//'`"


Cheers.


From: Russell Blumenthal [mailto:user-b99daaa10117@xymon.invalid<

Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:09 AM

To: Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon at xymon.com<

Subject: RE: dnsreg script question


I installed  'whois' and I am able to do a manual query 'whois

domain.com'. but unable to run the script manually to test it.


From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:user-b33a1547d27a@xymon.invalid<

Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM

To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at xymon.com<

Subject: RE: dnsreg script question


I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path.


From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com< [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com< On Behalf

Of Russell Blumenthal

Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM

To: xymon at xymon.com<

Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question


I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install

it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain).

Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks


./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20

17:27:42 EDT 2012


Domain mydomain.com expires on


: command not found


The script looks like this:


#!/bin/sh


# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to

expire.


#


# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.


#       Requires GNU date.


#       Should run only once a day.


NOW=`date "+%s"`


WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days


ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day


/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L


do


      set $L


      DOMAIN=$2


      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i

"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed

-e's/^[     ]*//'`"


      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`


      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME


      then


         COLOR=red


      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME


      then


         COLOR=yellow


      else


         COLOR=green


      fi


      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`


Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING


"


done

list Japheth Cleaver · Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:09:48 -0700 ·

▸ quoted from John Tullis

On Tue, March 24, 2015 11:50 am, John Tullis wrote:

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread.

I added the sleep to the command because I'm running bbcmd on a few
hundred domains. The script failed to run and I'm not sure why.

My other issue is that there are a few domains that I want to run
individually instead of it running the script on all the domains. Is there
a way to kick off a test for a single host?
I tried using "bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test domain.com dnsreg" but that only
told me what alert rules applied to this but didn't update anything. Is
there some command where I can tell a specific domain to do a fresh
dnsreg?

John Tullis

John,

There's no direct way to tell xymon to "re-run" a test, primarily because
there's no central scheduling/dispatch mechanism. (In the parlance of some
other monitoring systems, everything is a 'passive test'.)

In this case, the script is running 'xymongrep dnsreg' and looping over
the results, so if you wanted to hack a single host run out of this you'd
want to edit that line to read something like this instead:

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | grep domain.com | while read L

Save a copy, then run it as you had before: bbcmd /path/to/your/dnsreg/script

Running xymond_alert that way is unnecessary since, as you discovered,
that simply runs a test against the alerting config :)

A key point is that running the original script is sufficient to send a
xymon message back in to your system, regardless if it's running against
your entire config file or just a single server. As long as the rest of
your system is up, xymond will receive the message and send it off to
xymond_alert just like normal.


(Side note: Given how common xymongrep usage is in server-side scripts,
this is something that might be helped by allowing an environment variable
override to force an additional filter to be applied. It probably wouldn't
be too difficult to put in, and it would make "one-off" runs of server
scripts using that template much easier.)


Hope this helps!

-jc

▸ quoted from John Tullis

Ok let me tweak it around. What does this line do anyhow? I keep seeing

that pop up and then the error about command being not found


thanks


"status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`


From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:dddugan at
iastate.edu<

▸ quoted from John Tullis

Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 10:50 AM

To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at
xymon.com<

Subject: RE: dnsreg script question

Rereading your message, it seems perhaps $XYMON or $XYMDISP are not

populated. Are you running this under xymoncmd to set the environment? I

run from cron daily with:

/home/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd

--env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg

/home/xymon/server/ext/dnsreg

A few other differences in my script:

1.       I'm using $XYMSRV instead of $XYMDISP. Hmm...I don't have a

$XYMDISP anywhere, maybe $BBDISP wasn't updated to $XYMSRV properly?

2.       Added a "sleep 60" command before "done". Whois seems to get

angry with me if I query a bunch of domains in quick succession.

3.       Had to modify the sed commands for EXPIRESTRING:

EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i

"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed

-e's/^\s*//' | sed -e's/\s.*//'`"

Cheers.


From: Russell Blumenthal [mailto:rblumenthal at
telmar.com<

▸ quoted from John Tullis


Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 8:09 AM

To: Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon at
xymon.com<

Subject: RE: dnsreg script question


I installed  'whois' and I am able to do a manual query 'whois

domain.com'. but unable to run the script manually to test it.


From: Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [mailto:dddugan at
iastate.edu<

▸ quoted from John Tullis


Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM

To: Russell Blumenthal; xymon at
xymon.com<

Subject: RE: dnsreg script question


I'm guessing you don't have 'whois' available or in the path.


From: xymon-bounces at
xymon.com<
[mailto:xymon-bounces at
xymon.com< On Behalf

Of Russell Blumenthal

Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM

To: xymon at xymon.com<

Subject: [Xymon] dnsreg script question


I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install

it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain).

Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks


./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20

17:27:42 EDT 2012


Domain mydomain.com expires on


: command not found


The script looks like this:


#!/bin/sh


# Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to

expire.


#


# NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.


#       Requires GNU date.


#       Should run only once a day.


NOW=`date "+%s"`


WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000`        # 10 days


ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000`       # 5 day


/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L


do


      set $L


      DOMAIN=$2


      EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i

"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed

-e's/^[     ]*//'`"


      EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`


      if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME


      then


         COLOR=red


      elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME


      then


         COLOR=yellow


      else


         COLOR=green


      fi


      $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`


Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING


"


done

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