alerts not found in 99.2 -help-

[Andrew Diller]

Hello:

I'm upgrading mon from an old version of mon to .99.2 on tru64. We are 
using perl 5.6.0.

Everything is fine, except that for some reason I _cannot_ get mon to read 
alerts in alert.d directory. Then it begins to even refuse to see the 
mail.alerts which are untouched.

Did something in the mon.cf file format change?

I use two alerts-- the mail.alert for problems and a custom 'service 
availability' alert (nesavail.alert) that is called every 10min, plus an 
upalert which also calls the nesavail.alert.

I've gone thru a complete fresh install of mon twice, and torn apart the 
main mon script (playing with paths) to try and get mon to read the alerts 
which are plainly there.

Here is the syslog output of mon starting:
...
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: mail.alert not found in one of 
(@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d])
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: nesavail.alert not found in one of 
(@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d])
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: nesavail.alert not found in one of 
(@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d])
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: mail.alert not found in one of 
(@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d])
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: mon server started

here is how I'm starting mon to test:

mon@koi:~>$ MONHOME=/usr/local/lib/mon
mon@koi:~>$ export MONHOME
mon@koi:~>$ ./mon -c etc/mon.cf -A $MONHOME/etc/auth.cf -b `pwd`


and finally, here is a sample of a watch in my mon.cf:


watch listserv
   service smtp
 interval 10m
 monitor smtp3.monitor -t 30
 period wd {Mon-Sun}
alertevery 4h
alertafter 2 30m
alert mail.alert mon-listserv@isc
 period wd {Mon-Sun}
alertevery 10m
alert nesavail.alert
upalert nesavail.alert



Why is mon refusing to acknowledge these alerts which is plainly there in 
the alert.d directory?




_Andy Diller_
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Re: alerts not found in 99.2 -help- (fwd)

[Andrew Ryan]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Andy Diller wrote:

> Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: mail.alert not found in one of
> (@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d]) Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]:

I'd consider this something of a bug in mon, to discern between
and properly inform the user about the fact that the file is readable
but is not executable.

The attached patch addresses the latter, which should suffice for most
cases. At least it gives a clearer message that should point people in the
right direction of where to look.



andrew


--- mon.origSat Sep  8 06:42:05 2001
+++ mon.alert-patch Tue Sep 24 12:40:58 2002
@@ -4162,7 +4162,7 @@
}
}
if (!$found) {
-   syslog ('err', "$monitor not found in one of 
(\@scriptdirs[@scriptdirs])");
+   syslog ('err', "$monitor not found or not executable in one of 
+(\@scriptdirs[@scriptdirs]). Check permissions.");
}
}
 }
@@ -4189,7 +4189,7 @@
}
}
if (!$found) {
-   syslog ('err', "$alert not found in one of 
(\@alerttdirs[@alertdirs])");
+   syslog ('err', "$alert not found or not executable in one of 
+(\@alerttdirs[@alertdirs]). Check permissions.");
}
}
}

Re: alerts not found in 99.2 -help- (fwd)

[Andy Diller]

Ok, they needed the execute bit set. Sigh..

thanks!


--On Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:56 AM -0400 David Nolan 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My first guess would be a permissions problem.  Either the alerts aren't
> executable, or they aren't readable by the user your mon server is
> running as.  (Or the directory isn't readable, etc.)
>
> Have you verified the permissions are set correctly?
>
>
> -David Nolan
>  Network Software Developer
>  Computing Services
>  Carnegie Mellon University


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Re: alerts not found in 99.2 -help- (fwd)

[David Nolan]

--On Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:55 AM -0400 Andy Diller 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Why is mon refusing to acknowledge these alerts which is plainly there in
> the alert.d directory?

My first guess would be a permissions problem.  Either the alerts aren't 
executable, or they aren't readable by the user your mon server is running 
as.  (Or the directory isn't readable, etc.)

Have you verified the permissions are set correctly?


-David Nolan
 Network Software Developer
 Computing Services
 Carnegie Mellon University

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alerts not found in 99.2 -help- (fwd)

[Andy Diller]

Hello:

I'm upgrading mon from an old version of mon to .99.2 on tru64. We are
using perl 5.6.0.

Everything is fine, except that for some reason I _cannot_ get mon to read
alerts in alert.d directory. Then it begins to even refuse to see the
mail.alerts which are untouched.

Did something in the mon.cf file format change?

I use two alerts-- the mail.alert for problems and a custom 'service
availability' alert (nesavail.alert) that is called every 10min, plus an
upalert which also calls the nesavail.alert.

I've gone thru a complete fresh install of mon twice, and torn apart the
main mon script (playing with paths) to try and get mon to read the alerts
which are plainly there.

Here is the syslog output of mon starting:
...
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: mail.alert not found in one of
(@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d]) Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]:
nesavail.alert not found in one of (@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d])
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: nesavail.alert not found in one of
(@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d]) Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]:
mail.alert not found in one of (@alerttdirs[/usr/local/lib/mon/alert.d])
Sep 24 08:34:17 koi mon[252109]: mon server started

here is how I'm starting mon to test:

mon@koi:~>$ MONHOME=/usr/local/lib/mon
mon@koi:~>$ export MONHOME
mon@koi:~>$ ./mon -c etc/mon.cf -A $MONHOME/etc/auth.cf -b `pwd`


and finally, here is a sample of a watch in my mon.cf:


watch listserv
   service smtp
 interval 10m
 monitor smtp3.monitor -t 30
 period wd {Mon-Sun}
alertevery 4h
alertafter 2 30m
alert mail.alert mon-listserv@isc
 period wd {Mon-Sun}
alertevery 10m
alert nesavail.alert
upalert nesavail.alert



Why is mon refusing to acknowledge these alerts which is plainly there in
the alert.d directory?


_Andy Diller_

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