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<p class="MsoNormal">I recently got some new terminal servers from Tripplite, and I want to monitor them. Since I can’t really build the client on it, I thought I would use the xymon-rclient.sh script from Jeremy Laidman. It seems to work pretty well, more
or less it ssh’s to the client in question, transfers over the proper xymonclient script, and populates the results.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The script runs from tasks.cfg. The tripplite is some form of minimal linux, so I copied xymonclient-linux.sh to xymonclient-tripplite.sh, and started editing. This didn’t work. Rclient happily ran the script and gave good output I can
see from debugging. It seems that xymon ignores it, I’m guessing because it doesn’t recognize ‘tripplite’ as a valid os type. Is there a way to add ‘tripplite’ as an os type? Would that be client-local.cfg?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So instead, I modified xymonclient-linux.sh and have it run. The tripplite doesn’t have uptime, so I get that from /proc/uptime and /proc/loadaverage and do a bunch of manipulations with dc. Also, top won’t run without a terminal, and you
can’t set a terminal, so the ‘cpu’ output is a bit sparse. Ps doesn’t have any options, and says COMMAND instead of CMD, so I fix that. Also, df needed some frobbing.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The last thing really, is vmstat, it doesn’t have one. So I was thinking again to using /proc/vmstat, and manipulate that, but I’m not really sure how to start there, and there isn’t a whole lot in /proc/vmstat. Any ideas there?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">nr_free_pages 2651<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">nr_slab_unreclaimable 699<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">nr_unstable 0<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anybody use rclient.sh and/or have any advice? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<br>
Paul.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green">Paul Root<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Senior Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CenturyLink Network Reliability Operations Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">600 Stinson Blvd, N.E.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Flr 2N<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Minneapolis, MN 55413<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Direct: (651)312-5207<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paul.Root@centurylink.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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