Hi, 23.08.2007 11:10,, Allan Black wrote:: > Arno Lehmann wrote: >> (By the way: This is one of the reasons why I don't rely on the mail >> messages to monitor backup operations. Nagios is my choice of >> monitoring toolkit.) > > Hi, Arno - that's interesting. How do you do the monitoring - do you > use passive checks, run from a Run After Job script?
Exactly. Rather straightforward, except for the freshness checking - typically, backups have to run once a day, but not during the weekend. Unfortunately, symply disabling checks during the weekend does not work reliably as I can't know for sure when exactly the Monday jobs should finish. Currently, I'm simply ignoring this problem, but I think that a more sophisticated active check would be better... like, set the status to "Ok, no backups expected" when the script is called on Saturday or Sunday, and on Mondays check when the job was finished the Monday before, add some reasonable extra time, and only if that has passed return with a critical or warning state. Arno > Allan -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
