[hobbit] files test fails to work

[David Gore]

David Gore wrote:
>
>
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:01:06PM +0000, David Gore wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Here is a file I want to get the 'mtime' for:
>>>
>>> -rw-rw-rw-   1 netx     other    2189103 May 20 22:49 
>>> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb05.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May20 
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I think the colons in the filename are the problem. A ':' is also the
>> delimiter in file "file:FILENAME[:hash]" entry in client-local.cfg,
>> so when parsing the "file:..." line it cuts off the filename at the
>> first colon.
>>
>> It should work if you use the 'run-command-to-generate-filenames'
>> thing, i.e. in client-local.cfg you have
>>    file:`/usr/local/bin/snmpfilename`
>> and then the /usr/local/bin/snmpfilename script on your client host
>> generates these filenames.
>>
>>   
> Well, it works now, but I reported it not working on May 13 at 15:39 
> GMT using the same command technique.
>
> It is still has some issues, however.  Here is what the output looks 
> like on the web page:
>
> yellow 
> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb05.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May21 
>
> File was modified 154 seconds ago - should be <0
>
> yellow
> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16 
>
> File was modified 476411 seconds ago - should be <0
>
> 'should be <0' ? Perhaps that should be what the test is in 
> hobbit-clients.cfg entry:
>
>        FILE "%.*SIG_SNMP.*" yellow mtime<300
>        FILE "%.*TEST.*" yellow mtime<100
>
> 'should be <300' and 'should be <100'?
>
> Both Rich Smrcina and I think that reads backwards, but it's not that 
> big of a deal.  If I have it correctly, it reads as, 'if file mtime is 
> NOT less than 300 seconds then alarm'?  Assuming that, the *TEST* file 
> is firing a yellow alarm correctly, the test for the *SNMP* file is 
> also reported as yellow, that would not be correct.  If I change both 
> tests to '>' they remain green.
>
> For completeness here is the client-local.cfg:
>
> file:`ls -drt /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21*SIG_SNMP/*|tail -1`
> file:`ls -drt /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21*TEST/*|tail -1`
>
> Thank you for your hard work on Hobbit!
Since, I haven't heard anything, is it something I have wrong?
>
>>> So then I realize in client-local.cfg on the server you have to have 
>>> a command or file entry that will resolve to one and only one full 
>>> path filename?  You can, however, use a regular expression in 
>>> hobbit-clients.cfg to create a line to match more than 1 file entry 
>>> in client-local.cfg per host?
>>>     
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Henrik
>>
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