You should be able to go into the Administration -> Enable/disable menu, select multiple hosts (ctrl-click for individual selection, shift-click for a top to bottom selection), and then put in a start/stop, duration and "reason".

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:51 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] TS - Maintenance Mode for a group of hosts?

I have a request to take an entire area of hosts and place setup a maintenance window starting at a certain time and for say 3 hours.

Is there a script that I can send it a list and have it place all of the devices in maintenance mode?

All corporate servers will require a window of 3 hours at 6pm tonight.

Also, is there any option on the HOST line that will not show up (like an actual comment not the COMMENT: entry) that can be used to select them from.

e.g. the word 'CORP' in the options like that will normally be ignored by Xymon?

I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2.

Also, is there a way to show the COMMENT or DESCRIPTION on the line like it does in the non-green view under this release?

Thanks,

Tom Schmitt

Senior IT Staff

Salt Lake City, UT 84116

Phone (801) 594-3030

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If you only want the "disable" or "enable" to apply to a group of hosts, you can search for hosts matching any tag you wish using xymongrep. So for instance, if you have the following:

192.168.1.1 www.test.com # http telnet CORP 192.168.1.2 mail.test.com # smtp telnet FINANCE 192.168.1.3 ftp.test.com # ftp ssh CORP

Then you can disable the first and third (in "CORP" group) for 90 minutes with:

xymongrep CORP | while read IP NAME REST; do xymon $XYMSRV "disable $NAME.* 90m disabled group 1 servers"; done

If you want to disable at a future time, use the "schedule" command to submit the "disable" command at the right time. Or put the above into a script and schedule it using "at".

You can be very flexible with the entries in the host.cfg file, and they are normally ignored by Xymon unless then happen to match a test tag being used elsewhere. So instead of "CORP" and "FINANCE" you could have "GROUP=corp" and "GROUP=finance", and then match that string format appropriately, such as: xymongrep GROUP=corp. You're less likely to match another tag this way.

Then you can match all hosts that are in any group with: xymongrep 'GROUP=*'. You can even have hosts in multiple groups like: GROUP=CORP,Linux,prod; then match all corporate hosts with something like: xymongrep 'GROUP=' | egrep '=CORP|,CORP'

If you already have "NET:location" definitions in hosts.cfg, then you can match these with: xymongrep 'NET:*' Or you can match any untagged entries with

See the man page on xymongrep for more info.

J

On 7 December 2012 01:50, <d.tom.schmitt at l-3com.com> wrote:

I have a request to take an entire area of hosts and place setup a maintenance window starting at a certain time and for say 3 hours.****

Is there a script that I can send it a list and have it place all of the devices in maintenance mode?****

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All corporate servers will require a window of 3 hours at 6pm tonight.****

Also, is there any option on the HOST line that will not show up (like an actual comment not the COMMENT: entry) that can be used to select them from.

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e.g. the word ‘CORP’ in the options like that will normally be ignored by Xymon?****

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I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2.****

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Also, is there a way to show the COMMENT or DESCRIPTION on the line like it does in the non-green view under this release?****

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*Thanks,*

*Tom Schmitt*

*Senior IT Staff*****

Salt Lake City, UT 84116****

Phone (801) *594-3030*****

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