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Gus_Ferrer
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Mar 13, 2012

external monitor always marking nodes down

I am writing a script (which borrows heavily from some devcentral examples) that will ssh to a server and test for the presence of a file. If the file is there, the host should be marked down and the...
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Gus_Ferrer
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Mar 14, 2012
Ok, I had a typo in the script that was causing my problems. I the main line:

 

 

> /dev/null 2>$1

 

should have been

 

> /dev/null 2>&1

 

 

After fixing it, it the monitor work as expected. Go figure....

 

Thanks for F5 support for the extra set of eyes.