[Xymon] xymon-rclient

On 07/08/14 00:39, Jeremy Laidman wrote:

I'd put this in a script like so:

#!/bin/sh

TESTNAME="foo" REGEX="some regex"

do_fetch() { wget ... --header="SOAPAction: \"http://$1/ComprehensivePersonSearch\" -O - http://$2/BobService.asmx }

$BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep foo | while read IP HOSTNAME OTHER; do if do_fetch $HOSTNAME $IP | grep "$REGEX" > /dev/null ; then COL=green MSG="Test for $TESTNAME is OK" else COL=red MSG="Test for $TESTNAME failed" fi $BB $BBDISP "status $HOSTNAME.$TESTNAME $COL date $MSG" done

This is from memory and hasn't been tested, but should give you the gist.

Just a thought, couldn't this have used the cont check?

In any case, to explain the script to the OP, this line: $BB $BBDISP "status $HOSTNAME.$TESTNAME $COL date $MSG"

The HOSTNAME value is taken from the xymon hosts file, and used to tell xymon where to place the colored dot with this result.

Also, perhaps the following changes would be helpful:

 if do_fetch $HOSTNAME $IP | grep "$REGEX" > /dev/null ; then

result=do_fetch $HOSTNAME $IP if echo "$result" | grep -q "$REGEX"; then COL=green MSG="Test for $TESTNAME is OK

$result" else COL=red MSG="Test for $TESTNAME failed

$result" fi

This may be useful to know what the actual value was when you got an error, or even what the actual value was when it changed from non-green to green. Of course, if $result is a large amount of data, then you may not want to display the full value, you can pass it through grep or other tools to reduce it down to a smaller/more useful amount of data.

Note, the above hasn't been tested at all, so watch for syntax or other errors, but hopefully it will be useful.

Regards, Adam

-- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au