If you have Monolith installed in a RedHat cluster environment and are wondering how to make the cron job scripts only execute on the active cluster node, this script is a working example. It needs to be installed and running on each cluster node. The only variable to change is “MYHOST” depending on which node the script is running on. This analyzes the output of /usr/sbin/clustat for active node status and service type.

Feel free to use this as a starting point for other RH cluster aware wrappers.

Here are the associated crontab entries for the monolith cluster aware wrappers.

# Monolith Monitor Wrapper Scripts
02 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/monolith_cluster_report-generator.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
*/15 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/monolith_cluster_agent.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
02 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/monolith_cluster_cronexec.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
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