[hobbit] running 2 --extra-script

[Andy France]

henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner) wrote on 18/05/2005 09:07:20:

> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:26:52PM +0000, Jon Bjorn Njalsson wrote:
> >
> > This morning I was running successfully with one custom rrd graph. I
> > then added another in hobbitlaunch.cfg like this
> >
> > [larrdstatus]
> >         ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> >         NEEDS hobbitd
> >         CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/larrd-
> > status.log hobbitd_larrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --extra-
> > script=/usr/local/hobbit/server/ext/exchange.sh --extra-tests=exchdb --
> > extra-script=/usr/local/hobbit/server/ext/informix.sh --extra-
> > tests=informix
> >
> > and the informix script works fine but the first one stopped graphing
> > just about the time I added the second one. Is it not possible to run 2
> > custom scripts or am I doing something wrong ?

I use just one --extra-tests argument thus:

--extra-tests=exchdb,informix

> No, but it is very simple to have your script distinguish between the
> different status messages it can receive. Just build it like this:

> HOSTNAME="$1"
> TESTNAME="$2"
> FILENAME="$3"

> case "$TESTNAME" in)
> "informix")
> # Do the informix stuff
> ;;
> "exchdb")
> # Do the exchange stuff
> ;;
> esac

And yes, I combine all my tests in one script like Henrik says :-)

In fact, the hobbitd_larrd.8.html man page specifically states that the
--extra-script option can only be given once, and outlines running multiple
tests in the CUSTOM RRD DATA section.

>
> Henrik

HTH,
Andy.

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