▸ quoted from Raunak Kothari
On Tue, December 15, 2015 11:20 pm, Raunak Kothari wrote:
Hi everyone,
Let me explain what I am trying to do. Let's say we have some monitoring
on
our servers in xymon which can alert us when something goes wrong. The
corrective action for such events is normally to have our support team
restart some service or follow some remedial procedure, most of which
could
be automated.
The issue many a time is the access into the system during non office
hours. The support staff may not be able to access the system immediately
and so would like to explore if there is any way to trigger any scripts
etc
from the xymon webpages. Sort of like clicking any buttons on the webpage
could be enabled to trigger a customer script ? Is it possible to do this
using xymon, do share if someone has any experience with this. Thanks.
Regards,
Raunak
Hi Raunak,
There's no direct, built-in functionality for executing arbitrary actions
against a host at this time. The closest I think you'd be able to come
with the default CGIs would be the "notify" message generated by enabling
and disabling a test, which could have a 'NOTICE' filter set in your
alerts.cfg file which executes an arbitrary script as a result. This was
intended as an arbitrary "send a message to the admin for this host/svc"
framework, but it could be used for any further processing you need for
it.
The problem is that this is inherently a one-way message -- there's no way
for a user to know the effect of their message or, indeed, if it was even
received.
If you already have a web-accessible method of performing actions, it
might be easier to simply integrate at the web layer by modifying the
default header and footer templates with actions calling out to other
destinations or, at worst, iframes.
HTH,
-jc