Add time and date commands to crontab entry

failover/README.md

@@ -21,3 +21,11 @@ Failover from primary Nagios XI to secondary Nagios XI is a Disaster Recovery ef
 * Make sure any ramdisk (such as /ramdisk) is copied if it exists
 
 * Note that any gearman addons such as /etc/mod_gearman or whatever are NOT copied as part of this procedure.  These types of things need to be set up on both boxes the same way before this process is set up.
+
+## Running from cron
+The synchronization script should run on the primary at regular intervals to keep the secondary as up-to-date as possible.  It is recommended to run the script from cron to accomplish this.  At the simplest level, one could do this:
+* */30 * * * * /home/nagios/bin/SYNC >> /home/nagios/sync.log
+
+To include a timestamp, this would work:
+
+* */30 * * * * (date; time /home/nagios/bin/SYNC; echo "") >> /home/nagios/sync.log

failover/failover.sh

@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ do_primary() {
   [ $? -ne 0 ] && error "Cannot ping ${secondary}.  Use --noping to continue wihout ping." && exit
   verbose "Creating package to send to secondary"
   /home/nagios/bin/rsync_xi.sh --prepend ${syncname} --primary "${primary}" --secondary "${secondary}" $extraCmd
+  if [ -r "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css.primary" -a -w "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css" ]; then
+    verbose "Copying local gradient files"
+    cp /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css.primary /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css
+  fi
 }
 
 do_secondary() {
@@ -82,22 +86,20 @@ do_secondary() {
       warning "The primary (${primary}) is on the network but --force specified.  Proceeding anyway."
     fi
   fi
-  verbose "Checking for package from the primary"
+  verbose "Expanding package from the primary"
   syncfile=$(basename `ls -tr1 ${backupDir}/${syncname}* | tail -1`)
-  fullfile="/store/backups/nagiosxi/$syncfile"
-  if [ -f "$fullfile" ]; then
-    verbose "  Sync file found ($fullfile).  Continuing."
-    /home/nagios/bin/rsync_xi.sh --primary "${primary}" --secondary "${secondary}" --file "$fullfile"
-  else
-    warning "  No sync file found.  Continuing to activate Nagios."
-  fi
+  [ -z "$syncfile" ] && error "No sync file ($syncfile) found." && exit 2
+  /home/nagios/bin/rsync_xi.sh --primary "${primary}" --secondary "${secondary}" --file "/store/backups/nagiosxi/$syncfile"
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+    sleep 2
+    if [ -r "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css.secondary" -a -w "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css" ]; then
+      cp /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css.secondary /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css
+    fi
     chmod 0640 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/keys/xi.key
     chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/keys/xi.key
     verbose "This is intended to be manually executed when needed, so we assume you want to start Nagios..." -n
-    sleep 5
     start_nagios
-    rm -f ${fullfile}
+    rm -f ${syncfile}
     verbose "Done."
   fi
 }

failover/rsync_xi.sh

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ execute="-n"
 syncfile=""
 isP=/bin/false
 isS=/bin/false
-rsync_opts="-a --delete --delete-after"
+rsync_opts="-a --delete --delete-after --rsync-path=\"sudo /bin/rsync\" --exclude=/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/custom-includes/css/header-gradient.css"
 
 # Import Nagios XI and xi-sys.cfg config vars
 . $BASEDIR/../var/xi-sys.cfg
@@ -118,12 +118,11 @@ workDir=$rootdir/$name
 mkdir -p $workDir
 
 do_rsync() {
-  verbose "Syncing $1 (Excluding ${2:-nothing})..."
+  verbose "Syncing $*..."
   src="$1"
-  [ -n "$2" ] && exclude="--exclude $2" || exclude=""
   [ ! -e "$src" ] && warning "  OK: No such file or directory: $src" && return
-  [ -d "$src" ] && sudo /usr/bin/rsync --rsync-path="sudo /bin/rsync" ${rsync_opts} ${exclude} ${execute} ${src}/ nagios@${sName}:${src}/
-  [ -f "$src" ] && sudo /usr/bin/rsync --rsync-path="sudo /bin/rsync" ${rsync_opts} ${exclude} ${execute} ${src} nagios@${sName}:${src}
+  [ -d "$src" ] && sudo rsync ${rsync_opts} ${execute} ${src}/ nagios@${sName}:${src}/
+  [ -f "$src" ] && sudo rsync ${rsync_opts} ${execute} ${src} nagios@${sName}:${src}
 }
 
 do_backup_files() {
@@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ do_rsync $httpdconfdir/nrdp.conf
 do_rsync $httpdconfdir/ssl.conf
 do_rsync /usr/local/nagios
 do_rsync /usr/local/nagiosmobile
-do_rsync /usr/local/nagiosxi custom-includes/css/
+do_rsync /usr/local/nagiosxi
 do_rsync /usr/local/nagvis
 do_rsync /usr/local/nrdp
 do_rsync /usr/share/snmp
@@ -160,6 +159,7 @@ do_rsync /var/lib/mrtg
 do_rsync /var/spool/cron/apache
 do_rsync /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$apacheuser
 
+
 } # End of do_backup_files
 
 do_backup_sql() {