[hobbit] Solaris 10 service monitoring

T.J. Yang tj_yang at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 1 04:15:39 CEST 2006


>
> "T.J. Yang" wrote on 01/09/2006 01:51:30 p.m.:
>
>> Looks like a ext module need to be writting for hobbit,
>> and I propose using smf instead svcs(windows used it already).
>
> Regarding point one, an external script seems like the best idea rather
> than Henrik maintaining Solaris specific functions in the hobbit client
> (unless his to do list is looking a bit thin ;-) )
>
> However I disagree with your second point - if the "svcs" column indicates
> service status on Windows, why can't it indicate services on Solaris too?
> You're hardly likely to run both Sun and Windows services on the same
> (virtual) host, and it keeps the column numbers down on pages that might
> show both types of server.

So if you click on svcs column title link on a hobbit page to find out the
definition of svcs, which url it should link to  :)

I think it is best to have unique column name. it Solaris 10's case it has 
smf
to fall back on, giving up svcs to windows camp looks ok me.

tj

> Andy.
>
>> tj
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Bob Gordon
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:47 PM
>> Subject: [hobbit] Solaris 10 service monitoring
>>
>> Hello -
>>
>> I'm running into an issue where I need to monitor the individual
>> services ( svcs -a ) instead of the processes (ps -ef) on multiple
>> Solaris 10 clients.  I didn't see anything in the man pages about it
>> (although I may have missed it) so I was wondering if anyone has
>> been able to set Hobbit up to do so?
>>
>> Sample output from svcs -a
>>
>> $ svcs -a |head -20
>> STATE          STIME    FMRI
>> legacy_run     Jul_28   lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S00umask_sh
>> legacy_run     Jul_28   lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S29wrsmcfg
>> legacy_run     Jul_28   lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S51installupdates
>> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/system/sysidtool:net
>> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/system/sysidtool:system
>> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/network/rpc/keyserv:default
>> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/network/rpc/nisplus:default
>> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/network/nis/server:default
>> online         Jul_28   svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
>> online         Jul_28   svc:/system/zones:default
>> online         Aug_15   svc:/application/hobbit:default
>>
>> I need to be able to alarm if zones goes offline or if nisplus goes
>> online (for example)...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--
>
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