topic How to invoke a script upon failover in General Topics https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/How-to-invoke-a-script-upon-failover/m-p/21608#M4011 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Mates!</P><P></P><P>In a traditional distributed cluster environment I need to perform a specific action when a node goes from standby to active.</P><P></P><P>I've searched documentation, secureknownledge and community resources but found no out-of-the-box way to accomplish this. The alerts scripts possibility (<SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;">sk25941</SPAN>) are ran on the management side, so it doesn't suit.</P><P></P><P>Given this I developed a small script that periodically looks into messages file searching for the most recent string "<SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Local machine state changed to ACTIVE" and if that happens in the last 5 second then it performs the desired action.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It works fine and I was able to solve the problem, but not sure if this is the most clear way. Does anyone knows if there are any other means for this?</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Best regards,</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Pedro Boavida&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:57:51 GMT Pedro_Boavida 2018-08-24T08:57:51Z How to invoke a script upon failover https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/How-to-invoke-a-script-upon-failover/m-p/21608#M4011 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Mates!</P><P></P><P>In a traditional distributed cluster environment I need to perform a specific action when a node goes from standby to active.</P><P></P><P>I've searched documentation, secureknownledge and community resources but found no out-of-the-box way to accomplish this. The alerts scripts possibility (<SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;">sk25941</SPAN>) are ran on the management side, so it doesn't suit.</P><P></P><P>Given this I developed a small script that periodically looks into messages file searching for the most recent string "<SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Local machine state changed to ACTIVE" and if that happens in the last 5 second then it performs the desired action.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It works fine and I was able to solve the problem, but not sure if this is the most clear way. Does anyone knows if there are any other means for this?</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Best regards,</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Pedro Boavida&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:57:51 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/How-to-invoke-a-script-upon-failover/m-p/21608#M4011 Pedro_Boavida 2018-08-24T08:57:51Z Re: How to invoke a script upon failover https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/How-to-invoke-a-script-upon-failover/m-p/21609#M4012 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Find the answer in&nbsp;<A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;solutionid=sk65923&amp;partition=Advanced&amp;product=ClusterXL,">sk65923 How to configure the cluster to send SNMP Trap upon failover</A> !</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:56:41 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Topics/How-to-invoke-a-script-upon-failover/m-p/21609#M4012 G_W_Albrecht 2018-08-24T09:56:41Z