Daily and Weekly Periodic Scripts

[Ernie Luzar]

Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> For what it's worth, in a similar situation I simply have a cron 
> triggered script that greps certain files (or the output of certain 
> utilities) and fires off an email if it finds/doesn't find certain 
> things. Very simple and flexible, and it keeps nagging if I don't do 
> anything about it. I keep thinking of doing something more gala, but 
> over many years I've found this actually works for me.
> 
> Regards, Frank.
> 
> On 21/02/2017 22:02, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> I used to have a few servers and reading the daily and weekly periodic 
>> reports was a bit time consuming, but still viable.  However, now I 
>> have a bunch of servers and am swamped with those reports daily.  I 
>> have even less time available to read them and generally end up 
>> deleting them in mass.  I have on occasion, although not in a few 
>> years, identified issues in those reports that need to be addressed.  
>> That part bothers me.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has done anything to create code to review 
>> those scripts and identify issues and only report those issues.  For 
>> example, looking at the network counts, the collision rate should 
>> always be zero on ethernet.  Finding a number there greater than zero 
>> is a problem that needs to be addressed.  Likewise the error counts 
>> should also be zero.  However, some systems do have a normal low level 
>> of errors so that rate would need to be configurable per system.
>>
>> — Doug


Frank: Would you please share your scripts with the list?