Shell Programming and Scripting

Originally Posted by chakrapani

Will this work ... assuming you are using bash 2.03 or higher
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if nmap -P0 -p25 199.8.7.29 | grep -qi open >/dev/null 2>&1;
echo "[ $(/bin/date) ]: Partner VPN Failed" >> /var/log/monscrpt.log
mailx -s "Partner VPN Failed" 'aarti_sankhe@cactus.com' < /dev/null
exit 1;
else
echo "[ $(/bin/date) ]: VPN status looks good " >> /var/log/monscrpt.log
fi
exit 0;
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You might need to check with syntax ... mostly it will work
One thing I hate is log files without any date/time on when the event was last checked ... So I added that.

Originally Posted by chakrapani

#!/bin/bash
VPNLOG="/var/log/vpncon.log"
MONLOG="/var/log/monscrpt.log"
STATUSFILE=/var/log/VPNSTATUS

# email space seperated
EMAILTO="aarti_sankhe@cactus.com chakrapani@WHATEVER"

function laststatus {
if grep $1 $STATUSFILE
then
exit 1
fi
exit 0
}

nmap -P0 -p25 199.8.7.29 > $VPNLOG
cat $VPNLOG >> $MONLOG
if grep -qi "open" $VPNLOG;
then
echo "Partner VPN OK " >> $MONLOG
( laststatus "DOWN" ) && mailx -s "Partner VPN UP again" $EMAILTO < $VPNLOG || echo "UP" > $STATUSFILE
else
echo "Partner VPN Failed" >> $MONLOG
( laststatus "UP" ) && mailx -s "Partner VPN Failed" $EMAILTO < $VPNLOG || echo "DOWN" > $STATUSFILE
fi

This has status also so you can put this in cron to check every 5 mins and will email only if there is status change...
At least I would not like to be part of this email list ... will get very annoying after couple of days.

You have to cleanup a bit to accommodate on your system

Originally Posted by chakrapani

ok One very important thing; even though the script looks complete it may not be ... you need to make sure that it runs on your system .. Shell scripts have a bad habit of behaving differently on every system ... So I prefer to write the script on system direclty.

My script explanation

First few lines are defn ...

The function called laststatus checks the last status of the VPN. The idea is script runs every 5 mins and will email only change of status not DOWN every five mins when down ; so the function gets a parameter say "UP" or "DOWN" when called and will return 1 or 0 based on what is there in the statusfile.

Example: function is called with DOWN
laststatus "DOWN" then it will grep the status file to see if it is was DOWN when it checked last time if the status was DOWN then it is suppose to tell main prg not to send email because there is no change .

In the main prg we check if VPN status is really down or not and make decisions.

Now since I saw that you had two logs called VPNLOG and MONLOG ... I add them. Only difference is VPNLOG is overwritten every 5 mins when script is called from cron. And MONLOG will be appended with status of this script also.

I guess you need to still fix the script to work on your system ... let forum know if this worked ..