[Xymon] Solaris prtdiag

Vernon Everett everett.vernon at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 02:00:46 CEST 2011


Why not add it to the Xymonton script repository?

Regards
      Vernon


On 18 October 2011 04:48, Roland Soderstrom <rolands at logicaltech.com.au>wrote:

>  Finally I got the time to implement it,
> Thanks Vernon, it works like a charm.
>
> - Roland
>
> I changed it for XYMON only, if someone is interested...
> That is changing BBHOME to XYMONHOME etc etc.
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/ksh
>
> #
> # PURPOSE
> # This is an very simple script/test, but extremely useful.
> # It detects ANY hardware failure in Sun SPARC systems by using the
> standard 'prtdiag' command.  Prtdiag exits with a value of
> # '1' if there is an hardware error, otherwise with an exit code of '0'.
> # This way, no model/platform specific (i.e. V240/V890/15K, etc.)
> customizations are required, as the output of 'prtdiag'
> # differs on most systems. It works fine on Fujitsu-Siemens systems too.
> #
> # Provided by: Wim Olivier, Senior Solaris/VERITAS Engineer, AL Indigo,
> Johannesburg, South Africa
> # sunhw
>
> # INSTALLATION
> # 1.    Copy the script to $XYMONHOME/ext/xymon-prtdiag.ksh
> # 2.    Add it to the $XYMONHOME/etc/clientlaunch.cfg file
> #
>
> TEMPFILE=/$XYMONTMP/prtdiag.OUTPUT.$$
> TEST=prtdiag
> COLOR="green"
>
> if [ "$XYMONHOME" = "" ]
> then
>         echo "XYMONHOME is not set... exiting"
>         exit 1
> fi
>
> if [ ! "$XYMONTMP" ]                     # GET DEFINITIONS IF NEEDED,
> should never happen...
> then
>          # echo "*** LOADING XYMON SETTINGS ***"
>         . $XYMONHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg          # INCLUDE STANDARD
> DEFINITIONS
> fi
>
> # What is this doing?
>
> PANIC="1"       # GO RED AND PAGE AT THIS LEVEL
>
> PLATFORM=`uname -i`
> /usr/platform/$PLATFORM/sbin/prtdiag -v > $TEMPFILE
> RESULT=$?
> #echo $RESULT
>         #
>         # DETERMINE RED/YELLOW/GREEN
>         #
> if [ "$RESULT" -ne 0 ]
> then
>     COLOR="red"
> fi
>
> #
> # AT THIS POINT WE HAVE OUR RESULTS.  NOW WE HAVE TO SEND IT TO
> # THE XYMSRV TO BE DISPLAYED...
>
> #
>
> MACHINE=`uname -n`
>
> #
> # THE FIRST LINE IS STATUS INFORMATION... STRUCTURE IMPORANT!
> # THE REST IS FREE-FORM - WHATEVER YOU'D LIKE TO SEND...
> #
> LINE="status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date`
> `cat $TEMPFILE`"
>
> $RM -f $TEMPFILE
>
> # NOW USE THE XYMON COMMAND TO SEND THE DATA ACROSS
> $XYMON $XYMSRV "$LINE"                     # SEND IT TO XYMONSRV
>
>
> On 11/10/11 11:09 PM, Vernon Everett wrote:
>
> Hi Roland
>
>  This is what I am using. I made a mistake though, I did not write it. I
> must have got confused with another script I wrote. (I confuse easily)
> Credit where due though, and credit goes to Wim Olivier (See comments)
> It also looks like it does pretty much the same as Gautier's script.
>
>  Only issue you may have, there is a bug in the picl daemon, and it
> sometime crashes. (Recent patching may have fixed this)
> When that happens, all bets are off, and results could vary.
> Restarting picl service normally fixes everything.
> Might want to add /system/picl to the list of monitored services.
> There are two good SMF monitoring scripts on the Xymonton page.
> http://www.xymonton.org/monitors:smf.sh
> and
> http://www.xymonton.org/monitors:smf2.ksh
> I prefer the 2nd one,  obviously :-) but the first one is simpler to
> configure.
> The choice is yours.
>
>  Regards
>      Vernon
>
>  #!/usr/bin/ksh
>
>  #
> # PURPOSE
> # This is an very simple script/test, but extremely useful.
> # It detects ANY hardware failure in Sun SPARC systems by using the
> standard 'prtdiag' command.  Prtdiag exits with a value of
> # '1' if there is an hardware error, otherwise with an exit code of '0'.
> # This way, no model/platform specific (i.e. V240/V890/15K, etc.)
> customizations are required, as the output of 'prtdiag'
> # differs on most systems. It works fine on Fujitsu-Siemens systems too.
> #
> # Provided by: Wim Olivier, Senior Solaris/VERITAS Engineer, AL Indigo,
> Johannesburg, South Africa
> # sunhw
>
>  # INSTALLATION
> # 1.    Copy the script to $BBHOME/ext/sunhw.sh
> # 2.    Add it to the $BBHOME/etc/bb-bbexttab file
> # 3.    Restart the BB client
> #
>
>  BBPROG=sunhw; export BBPROG
> TEMPFILE=/$BBTMP/sunwh.OUTPUT.$$
> TEST="sunhw"
> COLOR="green"
>
>  if [ "$BBHOME" = "" ]
> then
>         echo "BBHOME is not set... exiting"
>         exit 1
> fi
>
>  if [ ! "$BBTMP" ]                     # GET DEFINITIONS IF NEEDED
> then
>          # echo "*** LOADING BBDEF ***"
>         . $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh          # INCLUDE STANDARD DEFINITIONS
> fi
> PANIC="1"       # GO RED AND PAGE AT THIS LEVEL
>
>  PLATFORM=`uname -i`
> /usr/platform/$PLATFORM/sbin/prtdiag -v > $TEMPFILE
> RESULT=$?
> #echo $RESULT
>         #
>         # DETERMINE RED/YELLOW/GREEN
>         #
> if [ "$RESULT" -ne 0 ]
> then
>     COLOR="red"
> fi
>
>  #
> # AT THIS POINT WE HAVE OUR RESULTS.  NOW WE HAVE TO SEND IT TO
> # THE BBDISPLAY TO BE DISPLAYED...
> #
>
>  MACHINE=`uname -n`
>
>  #
> # THE FIRST LINE IS STATUS INFORMATION... STRUCTURE IMPORANT!
> # THE REST IS FREE-FORM - WHATEVER YOU'D LIKE TO SEND...
> #
> LINE="status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date`
> `cat $TEMPFILE`"
>
>  $RM -f $TEMPFILE
>
>  # NOW USE THE BB COMMAND TO SEND THE DATA ACROSS
> $BB $BBDISP "$LINE"                     # SEND IT TO BBDISPLAY
>
>
> On 11 October 2011 10:12, Roland Soderstrom <rolands at logicaltech.com.au>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have used old good bb-prtdiag for many years.
>> It works fairly well for a lot of old Sun machines but lack the new ones.
>> The script is pretty nasty in nested loops and too many if's.
>> It is not easy to update it to accommodate new machines.
>>
>> Is there anyone out there that has a new version of it?
>> Can't find any on xymonton.
>> Or do you monitor SUN hw in another way than prtdiag -> xymonserver?
>>
>> Otherwise I will rewrite it to support our new hw.
>>
>> - Roland
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