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Alert levels are defined as follows:
| Days before expiration (date limited license) | Hours before expiration (time limited license) | Alert Level |
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| More than 7 | More than 72 hours | INFORMATIONAL |
| Between 4 and 7 | Between 49 and 72 hours | MINOR |
| Between 2 and 3 | Between 25 and 48 hours | MAJOR |
| Less than 2 | Between 0 and 24 hours | CRITICAL |
| < 0 | 0 hours and 0 minutes |
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Example
Command line parameters
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- Number of days before the license expires that will generate an alert → specify a number of days (default = 7)
- Prevent from sending default email →
-nomail . This option is useful when a custom script is created to send alerts (see further) - Force the expiration date for debugging →
-expdat=<DD-MMM-YYYY> where DD = day of the month, MMM = month (3 characters, 1st letter uppercase), YYYY = year
Example (command executed on 21-Jul-2020):
# /opt/charon/utils/charon_expchk 15 -nomail -expdat=1324-Jul-2019 |
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The command above, with forced expiration date, will provide the following results:
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Custom alert script
A customer script can be created to send alerts for example when a monitoring software is installed.
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- $1 = level that can be (case sensitive): Informational, Minor, MAJOR, CRITITALCRITICAL, EXPIRED or NEUTRAL
- Note: NEUTRAL is sent when no alert is detected, used to send counter alert.
- $2 = message starting with ":" followed by the license expiration date, the license number and the product.
- Example:
: 1324-Jul-20192020. License: 10034151001687. Product: CHARON-AXP
Script example using Zabbix software:
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