Well now, there's a blast from the past... :-)

Ralph Mitchell

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Gore, David W (David) < david.gore at verizon.com> wrote:

From TJ Yang, he probably has this posted on his site which I don’t recall right now. We may or may not have made edits. We use it on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.6.****

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#! /bin/sh****

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S H E L L S C R I P T S P E C I F I C A T I O N****

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NAME****

bluesync.sh - A shell script to replicate Primary Xymon Serverblue

record****

to Secondary standby Xymon server.****

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REVISION HISTORY****

07/12/2009 Base on getblue.sh and putblue.sh by Ralph Mitchell

<ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>****

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/07/msg00214.html****

10/19/2009 T.J. Yang merge two scripts into one for Xymon High

Availability setup.****

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USAGE****

This script is tested on Solaris 10 OS.****

put this shell script in tasks.cfg as section like following.****

#****

[bluesync]****

# DISABLED****

ENABLE****

ENVFILE /etc/opt/hobbitserver42/hobbitserver.cfg****

CMD /opt/hobbitserver42/ext/bluesync/bluesync.sh****

LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/bluesync.sh.log****

INTERVAL 5m****

#****

DESCRIPTION****

Xymon keep its blue(maintenance) in memory, not in a file. This

script****

is to copy the blue records from primary Xymon A server into Xymon B

secondary one.****

This script is for use when running Active-Active type of Xymon

server****

High Availability setup. Xymon B is same as Xymon A except****

the alerting function is disabled. There is another script running on

Xymon B to****

detect the outage of Xymon A and enable Xymon B to become primary

one.****

#****

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Algorithems:****

1. Pull blue records from Xymon1 and dump them into Xymon2's ext/xymon

directory.****

2. Process the lifetime fields' value****

if lifetime is -1 and greater then zero****

then run "bb xymon2.vzbi.com "disable hosname.test lifetime

message"****

to keep the blue record.****

if liftime =0****

the run "bb xymon2.vzbi.com "enable hostname.*d" to enable this

host blue record****

since it is expired or was enabled on xymon1 server.****

#****

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RETURN CODE****

SUCCESS (=0) - script completed sucessfully****

ERROR (=1) - error... bad things happened****

WARNING (=2) - warning... something's not quite right, but it's***

not serious enough to prevent installation.****

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#****

set -x****

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XYMONCFG="/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg"****

BlueTxt="/tmp/xymon1.vzbi.com.blue.txt"****

HB1="xymon1.vzbi.com"****

SED="/bin/sed"****

HB2="xymon2.vzbi.com"****

NOW=/bin/date +%s****

EXPR="/usr/bin/expr"****

RM="/bin/rm"****

SUCCESS=0****

ERROR=1****

WARNING=2****

export SUCCESS ERROR WARNING****

inherit xymon server variables in configuration file****

#. ${XYMONCFG}****

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exit_code=${SUCCESS}****

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******************************** MAIN SCRIPT

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remove the old file first.****

if [ -f ${BlueTxt} ]; then****

    ${RM} ${BlueTxt}****

    exit_code=$?****

fi****

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Getting blue records into a text file.****

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if [ ${exit_code} -eq ${SUCCESS} ]; then****

$XYMON ${HB1} "xymondboard color=blue fields=hostname,testname,disabletime,dismsg" |****

       ${SED} -e 's/\\/\\\\/g'  > ${BlueTxt}****

exit_code=$?****

fi****

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if [ ${exit_code} -eq ${SUCCESS} ]; then****

cat ${BlueTxt} | while read line****

do****

  OFS="$IFS"****

  IFS="|"****

  set $line****

  IFS="$OFS"****

  if [ "$3" -eq "-1" ]; then****

    # found "disable until OK"****

    lifetime="-1"****

  else****

    lifetime=`$EXPR $3 - ${NOW}`****

    if [ "$lifetime" -le "0" ]; then****

      # this one expired, enable it****

      $XYMON ${HB2} "enable $1.*"****

    else****

      lifetime="$lifetime"s****

    fi****

  fi****

  msg=`echo "$4" | $SED -e 's/\\\n/\n/g'`****

  $XYMON ${HB2} "disable $1.$2 $lifetime $msg"****

done****

exit_code=$?****

fi****

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exit ${exit_code}****

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

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*From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Carl Melgaard *Sent:* Tuesday, August 09, 2011 13:37 *To:* 'xymon at xymon.com' *Subject:* [Xymon] Synchronize disabled servers from one xymon installation to another?****

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Hi,****

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Is there an easy way to synchronize xymon disabled status (servers put in maintenance) from 1 xymon server to another (a standby server)?****

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/melgaard****

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