On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, White, Bruce wrote:

Does it run after 6 hours?

Hi Bruce

Yes indeed - it does eventually run, and the test will go from purple to green.

Thanks

Iain

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-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Root, Paul T Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2017 2:44 PM To: 'Iain M Conochie'; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] ext script does not run on client restart

Did you look in your $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbit-patch.sh log file? Probably should rename that .log.

Also, you could just do a $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/xymoncmd $XYMONCLIENT/HOME/ext/hobbit-patch.sh to get it to run.

-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Iain M Conochie Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2017 3:09 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] ext script does not run on client restart

Hi

I have an ext script to check for the status of available patches on my hosts. Once I have updated the patches, I restart the xymon-client so that the test will go green again. Occasionally the ext script will not run on restart. Is there a way I can debug what the xymon client is choosing to run? How does xymon track the interval after a restart? My clientlaunch fragment looks like:

[patches] ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/hobbit-patch.sh LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbit-patch.sh INTERVAL 6h

Client version:

ii xymon-client 4.3.17-6+deb8u1 amd64 client for the Xymon network monitor

Thanks for any advice!

Iain

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On Sun, 5 Mar 2017, Root, Paul T wrote:

Did you look in your $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbit-patch.sh log file? Probably should rename that .log.

Nothing in there at all, as the task is never run :(

Also, you could just do a $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/xymoncmd $XYMONCLIENT/HOME/ext/hobbit-patch.sh to get it to run.

Ah - now this may be a good idea. Let me try and get back to you!

Thanks Paul

Iain

-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Iain M Conochie Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2017 3:09 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] ext script does not run on client restart

Hi

I have an ext script to check for the status of available patches on my hosts. Once I have updated the patches, I restart the xymon-client so that the test will go green again. Occasionally the ext script will not run on restart. Is there a way I can debug what the xymon client is choosing to run? How does xymon track the interval after a restart? My clientlaunch fragment looks like:

[patches] ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/hobbit-patch.sh LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbit-patch.sh INTERVAL 6h

Client version:

ii xymon-client 4.3.17-6+deb8u1 amd64 client for the Xymon network monitor

Thanks for any advice!

Iain

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Phil Crooker wrote:

It may be running but fails and doesn't send an update to the server. Try setting:

Nope - definitely does _not_ run - I can log in to the server in quesiton and check the process listing - I never see hobbit-patch.sh process in the listing.

I think I will try using xymoncmd to start the script and see if that helps.

Thanks!

Iain

#! /bin/bash -x

on the first line of the script and then look at the log file. And do rename the logfile to hobbit-patch.log...

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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Iain M Conochie <iain at shihad.org> Sent: Sunday, 5 March 2017 7:39 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] ext script does not run on client restart

Hi

I have an ext script to check for the status of available patches on my hosts. Once I have updated the patches, I restart the xymon-client so that the test will go green again. Occasionally the ext script will not run on restart. Is there a way I can debug what the xymon client is choosing to run? How does xymon track the interval after a restart? My clientlaunch fragment looks like:

[patches] ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/hobbit-patch.sh LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbit-patch.sh INTERVAL 6h

Client version:

ii xymon-client 4.3.17-6+deb8u1 amd64 client for the Xymon network monitor

Thanks for any advice!

Iain

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