Just wondering if I'm the only one who's done this
I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code... xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing regularly. It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service. I got tired of having to do the restarts so I looked a bit more into alerts.cfg. Yes, I can send an alert via a script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do anything else? Well, I'll be! I wrote one to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed service.
I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
Thoughts? Concerns?
Bueller? Bueller??
Good on you.
I can see no reason not to if it works for you.
Regards
Jeremy
On 1 Sep 2016 06:34, "Bruce Ferrell" <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote:
I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code... xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing regularly. It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service. I got tired of having to do the restarts so I looked a bit more into alerts.cfg. Yes, I can send an alert via a script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do anything else? Well, I'll be! I wrote one to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed service.
I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
Thoughts? Concerns?
Bueller? Bueller??
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Den 01-09-2016 07:33, Bruce Ferrell skrev:
I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code... xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing regularly. It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service. I got tired of having to do the restarts so I looked a bit more into alerts.cfg. Yes, I can send an alert via a script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do anything else? Well, I'll be! I wrote one to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed service.
I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
Thoughts? Concerns?
Sure, you can do that if it suits your way of working. And I can certainly see why it would be nice to avoid restarting the same service again and again.
The reason that Xymon doesn't do that "out of the box" is this: Xymon has always been a "watch, but don't act" tool. And that is an inheritance from the Big Brother days.
Regards, Henrik
It's a useful enough possibility...and we all use workarounds from time to time. But as time permits, the real cause of the problem should be found and fixed; and workarounds should not become permanent. I'd worry that a monitoring tool being used to implement workarounds could make that too tempting.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
Den 01-09-2016 07:33, Bruce Ferrell skrev:
I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code... xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing regularly. It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service. I got tired of having to do the restarts so I looked a bit more into alerts.cfg. Yes, I can send an alert via a script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do anything else? Well, I'll be! I wrote one to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed service.
I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
Thoughts? Concerns?
Sure, you can do that if it suits your way of working. And I can certainly see why it would be nice to avoid restarting the same service again and again.
The reason that Xymon doesn't do that "out of the box" is this: Xymon has always been a "watch, but don't act" tool. And that is an inheritance from the Big Brother days.
Regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
This is my feeling on this. It’s your business, but no service should need automatic restarting enough to make that an attractive option.
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On Sep 1, 2016, at 08:42, Richard Hamilton <rlhamil2 at gmail.com> wrote:
It's a useful enough possibility...and we all use workarounds from time to time. But as time permits, the real cause of the problem should be found and fixed; and workarounds should not become permanent. I'd worry that a monitoring tool being used to implement workarounds could make that too tempting.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: Den 01-09-2016 07:33, Bruce Ferrell skrev: I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code... xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing regularly. It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service. I got tired of having to do the restarts so I looked a bit more into alerts.cfg. Yes, I can send an alert via a script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do anything else? Well, I'll be! I wrote one to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed service.
I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
Thoughts? Concerns?
Sure, you can do that if it suits your way of working. And I can certainly see why it would be nice to avoid restarting the same service again and again.
The reason that Xymon doesn't do that "out of the box" is this: Xymon has always been a "watch, but don't act" tool. And that is an inheritance from the Big Brother days.
Regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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