Can Nagios implement with Expect to automate taskswhen issues arise?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Patrick M.
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:28 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Can Nagios implement with Expect to automate
> taskswhen issues arise?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just learned what Expect was and wrote a few scripts to automate
> certain tasks around the office, and now I'm wondering if Expect can
be
> used in conjunction with Nagios.  Is this possible?
> 
> Example: One of our servers go down at least twice a day, and we know
> it's problematic.  We connect to the power strip and recycle the power
> on the port that machine is plugged in.  I'd like to use Expect to
> automate this when Nagios notices it is down.
> 
> Has anyone else implemented something similar to what I'm describing?

Yes, certainly doable. It's an Event Handler for nagios. It's a script
that can be run when a host/service changes state. That script can be
written in sh, bash, perl, expect, ruby, whatever... As long as you can
script an action to take and run that as the nagios user, nagios can
automatically run it when needed. Take a look at the Event Handler
documentation for examples.

--
Marc

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