Martin --

I've written a Perl program to parse and maintain the files associated with hosts.cfg in our installation. As part of that program, I've written a couple of routines that parse out and report on host/page "matches" in alerts.cfg.

The parsing routine is not comprehensive of all allowable syntax for alerts.cfg (e.g. it's not up to digesting line continuations, interpreting macros, etc.), and it assumes the presence of certain comment lines embedded in the file, used in our environment to identify groupings of alerts associated with our teams. We use this mostly to see which hosts/pages belong to which teams. It does not dump out the actual mailing rules, though that would be a simple mod.

If you are interested in seeing some of that code, please contact me.

Sample output from one such run:

~/hobbit> ./hobcfgadm.pl --dump-alerts Vers 2.44 TEAM: C & C HOST: Matches (name fragment): xwrl0(0[6-9]|1[01])

TEAM: Content Management HOST: Matches (name fragment): (xwau02[23]|ccp)

TEAM: DBA's HOST: Matches (name fragment): (awdu|xwdu)

TEAM: EA PAGE: Matches: Winters/urls_dev/prodfix_websvcs Matches: Winters/urls_dev/sit1_websvcs Matches: Winters/urls_dev/sit2_websvcs Matches: Winters/urls_dev/uat1_websvcs Matches: Winters/urls_dev/uat2_websvcs ...

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From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com [john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 12:37 PM To: martin.flemming at desy.de; xymon at xymon.com Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] config report from command line?

Although those modules look like they could be interesting the documentation is useless or non-existent.

I would be happy to share once I get something useful put together.

Thanks, John Upcoming PTO: None

John Rothlisberger IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform TGP for Business Process Outsourcing Accenture 312.693.3136 office

-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Martin Flemming Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:46 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] config report from command line?

On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com wrote:

...

I am currently using Xymon 4.3.0 (Yeah, I know, I need to upgrade) on Ubuntu 12.04LTS.

I am writing a perl script to parse my configuration and send it in a spreadsheet format. I have been able to get through most everything but I want to include who gets alerted (or what scripts). But, I have not found an easy way to do this from the command line. Has anyone else tried this or have ideas?

I have tried using wget to get configreport.sh and then html2text but this is not easily parsed either. This cannot be done by just grepping through the alerts.cfg file as a host may be defined in multiple rules (HOST=*server*, HOST=testserver, PAGE=TEST, etc).

Hi !

Maybe you find somthing useful on this side

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xymon/index.php?title=Perl_Library_Dis... ion

.. by the way, i'm interesting for your script :-)

cheers,

Martin

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I have explored xymond_alert and unless you know something I don't it lacks the information that I am looking for.

For example, if I do: xymond_alert --test webserver1 conn --color=red --duration=620 --cfid|grep -v Failed

The only semi-useful line is: 00003412 2013-06-14 08:19:33 *** Match with 'PAGE=%.*/ORD EXPAGE=%.*/ORD_DEV EXHOST=app1,app2,db1,db2 EXSERVICE=virtuals COLOR=red,yellow' ***

It does not include the actual actions to be performed that are contained within that match. For this particular page match, I have 4 separate scripts that can be run:

•      If SERVICE=cpu & COLOR=red

•      If COLOR=red & EXSERVICE=cpu,virtuals,procs <<-- This one should be matched/run

•      If SERVICE=procs & COLOR=red

•      Match all <<- This one should be matched/run

None of the details of what is actually done are displayed. I know that Xymon can do all of this because, well, it does. But how can I parse it out via command line? Thanks, John Upcoming PTO: None

John Rothlisberger IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform TGP for Business Process Outsourcing Accenture 312.693.3136 office

From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:28 PM To: Rothlisberger, John R. Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] config report from command line?

On 7 June 2013 23:24, <john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com<mailto:john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com>> wrote: but I want to include who gets alerted (or what scripts). But, I have not found an easy way to do this from the command line. Has anyone else tried this or have ideas?

What about using the xymond_alert tool. You can give it a "--dump-config" switch to - well - dump the config. Also, you can use the "--test" switch to display all scripts tied to a given host/test combination.

J

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