Hi! As I'm very new to opsview I don't know how to do it there, but in Nagios you can utilize 'Service Check Freshness' [1]. If you activate it you'll get alerts if a passive check isn't 'updated' during the specified timeframe.
-- regards, Henry [1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html On Di, 2009-05-05 at 09:34 +0200, Fredrik Rambris wrote: > It is a backup script that uses rdiff-backup and whatnot. I would like a > generic solution that alerts me if various cron jobs fails or does take > too long to run. I would prefer not to have an active script grep the > logs every now and then. > > Matt White skrev: > > Hi Fredrik > > > > What backup software are you using? I have a nice check_backupexec script i > > run that checks the last run status of the jobs. > > http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2885.html;d=1 > > > > I was about to write a vbscript check that parses the log files but this > > saved me the task > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fredrik > > Rambris > > Sent: 04 May 2009 16:05 > > To: Opsview Users > > Subject: [opsview-users] Passive test upon backup run > > > > I want to have a service check that notify me when the nightly backup > > job fails or has not finished. I have created a passive test and the > > backup script feeds status into opsview. But I would like to know if it > > does not finish within the backup window (say when the test gets 'stale'). > > > > Have any of you done this or can point me to a solution? > > _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/listinfo/opsview-users
