[hobbit] Ext script help needed.

[FIGARO Nicolas]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Thomas [mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk] 
> Envoyé : vendredi 21 octobre 2005 09:03
> À : hobbit
> Objet : [hobbit] Ext script help needed.
> 
> 
> Hi All,
Hi, 
> 
> Please help me with this little problem I have, as it is 
> bothring be a lot.
> 
> I have writte an ext script which logs into a FTP server does a dir 
> command and then excits. All FTP commands are specified in a 
> input file 
> and the output is saved in a temp file used for the status message to 
> Hobbit.
> 
> Henrik kindly advised me to use a bbhostgrep to search the FTP server 
> details from the bb-hosts file and this works as expected. In 
> order to 
> speed up the testing I have created a "subscript" which I 
> call with som 
> paramaters from the "master script" and this way have some 
> parrallel run 
> of the test. Its like this:
> 
> $BBHOME/ext/ftp-test.sh $HOST $USER $PASSWD &
> 
> This also works fine.
> 
> The problem starts when a FTP connection fails or is slow. Then my 
> subscript is not terminated and the master script hangs. This in turn 
> leads to purple alarms for all hosts. I have tried to implement in my 
> master script a check using ps for a previously running subscribt for 
> the individual hosts, but this is not work as expected.
> 
> So my question is how can I have my "sub script" really fork from the 
> master script ? I do not need it to return to the master 
> script because 
> the subscript sends the status to Hobbit.
Just a suggestion : 
You can write your sub script with perl and use Net::FTP module. 
This module includes a timeout option for ftp. 
If the connection is to slow or fails, the perl script can generate 
a specific message, and you'll send a red message to hobbit.
I don't know if there is a timeout option to the standard ftp command. 

Nicolas Figaro 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards, Thomas
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