[hobbit] custom client script and disable

[Steve]

So ...

I add the code you suggest, query bb for status and test for blue, but 
it is never blue, even when disabled. 

To be sure that my client script is not changing the status I put an 
exit statement in the script so the code is not processed. 

Maybe I need to find a better way to restart the application when it 
fails, or get the vendor to address the problems with it.

Here is what I see.


When the test is enabled the details screen is empty as it should be no 
test or status is perfromed.

# /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/bb server "query server.application"
green




Hobbit 	
server - application

	Thu Nov 10 10:35:27 2005
------------------------------------------------------------------------




 




Status unchanged in 0 hours, 51 minutes
Status message received from



 When I disable the test the detail screen show that the status is green.

# /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/bb server "query server.application"
green




Hobbit 	
server - application

	Thu Nov 10 10:40:24 2005
------------------------------------------------------------------------




 


      Disabled until Thu Nov 10 14:40:24 2005

Disabled by: admin @ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Reason: test
      


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current status message follows:
------------------------------------------------------------------------


      green



Status unchanged in 0 hours, 52 minutes
Status message received from




Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Steve wrote:
>  
>
>>I wrote a client script to monitor an application, added to the 
>>clientlaunch.cfg file restarted hobbit, the monitor works well
>>
>>Because the application I am monitoring is faulty I added to the client 
>>script a section of code to start up the application should it fail.  I 
>>shut down the application and Hobbit starts it up ... Cool.
>>
>>To avoid having the application start up during the backup or 
>>maintenance window I disable the client script. 
>>
>>I ran a test backup to be sure it worked, but it appears that Hobbit 
>>executes the client script even when the test is disabled, and the 
>>application goes from blue to red to green.
>>    
>>
>
>You're right that Hobbit runs the client script regardless of whether 
>the status that the script reports is disabled or not. hobbitlaunch
>which runs the script simply has no idea what status column(s) your 
>script might report.
>
>  
>
>>So now the 64K question ... what can I change so the test does not run 
>>when disabled or ... where did I error?
>>    
>>
>
>Have your script check if the test is disabled, and abort if it is. 
>Something like this:
>
>    STATUS=`$BB $BBDISP "query $MACHINE.mytest" | awk '{print $1}'`
>    if [ "$STATUS" = "blue" ]; then exit 0; fi
>
>The bb(1) man-page has some more examples of how you can use the "query"
>command.
>
>
>Regards,
>Henrik
>
>
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