Crontab required tabs, because dates could have spaces in them. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:58 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things)
Hmmm...... Do you remember - does crontab use spaces or tabs? :) The day is still now, on my FreeBSD boxen... Kurt On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > "Back in the day" we used cron for this, several careers back. Same idea as a > scheduled task...of course, the issue is remembering to transfer those > scheduled tasks when you move to a new piece of hardware or OS. > > The shared mailbox is a really good idea. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:26 PM > To: ntsysadm > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things) > > For reminders of those kinds of things, we've made a shared mailbox for a > team calendar in Exchange, and set up meeting reminders in it that with > members of our team as attendees. We also use that for keeping track of > on-call rotation, vacation days and other things needing reminders. Everyone > on the team has delegate access on the calendar, so they can set up reminders > as necessary. > > Other than that, if you have a tools box that's permanent, I could see a > scheduled task that sends emails with a batch file, or some other home-grown > solution. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Jonathan Raper <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks, but this ISN’T just about certs. Monitoring is not the >> solution I am looking for. We’re also looking to manage reminders for >> non technical items, like other renewals, contracts, etc. >> >> >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Neil Standley >> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:03 PM >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things) >> >> >> >> The PRTG free license comes with 100 sensors, and if you’re >> monitoring Windows boxes you can install remote probes to monitor all sorts >> of things. >> Otherwise you can monitor using SNMP. >> >> >> >> You just need a system to run it and access to the resource you wish >> to monitor. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Neil Standley >> Cascadia Infotek >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper >> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 8:45 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things) >> >> >> >> Unfortunately it is not that simple. Multiple sites, and some are >> internal certs for dev environments, some are on network equipment >> that is internal, one is on a hosted environment in a co-lo that is >> purely internal, but we don’t manage the system, only the cert…. >> >> >> >> And we have a management system in place (Zenoss), and it does alert >> on some of the certs, but only if the device is monitored/managed. >> Some devices we do not want monitored for various reasons….but when >> the cert expires, it’s a problem. Unfortunately management won’t >> justify the expense and overhead of >> 1-3 years of monitoring for an issue that only crops up every 1 to 3 years…. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Jonathan >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Brian Desmond >> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 9:20 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things) >> >> >> >> You might look at how you could centralize where these certs are >> installed (e.g. a load balancer/reverse proxy) so you only have one >> place to check as opposed to having things scattered around. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brian Desmond >> >> >> >> w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper >> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:40 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [NTSysADM] Reminders for SSL certs (and other things) >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> We’ve been bitten by an internal cert or two expiring that caught us >> off guard. We’re rying to come up with a way to have centrally >> managed reminder system in place to make sure this doesn’t happen >> again. This is for a large-ish network with a handful of people who >> could be managing this at any given time. >> >> >> >> An Excel spreadsheet just doesn’t scale well for this, and Outlook >> tasks seems kind of clumsy. >> >> >> >> Obviously paid certs you generally get a reminder because GoDaddy >> wants the revenue, and Web server certs generate an event in the >> event log, but not every SSL cert is going to generate an event…..and >> not every cert is a paid cert…. >> >> >> >> We also have some other events and contracts that we’d like reminders >> for – so this isn’t exclusive to SSL certs, though that is a driving factor. >> >> >> >> How are you all handling this? An application? A web-based “aaS” >> reminder system of some sort? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Jonathan
