[hobbit] Solaris 10 service monitoring

[Andy France]

"T.J. Yang" wrote on 01/09/2006 02:15:39 p.m.:
>
> > "T.J. Yang" wrote on 01/09/2006 01:51:30 p.m.:
> >
> >> Looks like a ext module need to be writting for hobbit,
> >> and I propose using smf instead svcs(windows used it already).
> >
> > Regarding point one, an external script seems like the best idea rather
> > than Henrik maintaining Solaris specific functions in the hobbit client
> > (unless his to do list is looking a bit thin ;-) )
> >
> > However I disagree with your second point - if the "svcs" column
indicates
> > service status on Windows, why can't it indicate services on Solaris
too?
> > You're hardly likely to run both Sun and Windows services on the same
> > (virtual) host, and it keeps the column numbers down on pages that
might
> > show both types of server.
>
> So if you click on svcs column title link on a hobbit page to find out
the
> definition of svcs, which url it should link to  :)

"The svcs column shows the status of select system services that are
expected to run on the system"

Sounds generic enough for me!  Of course, I'm not planning on submitting
the ext script myself any time soon, so I'll leave it up to "someone else"
to decide.

And BTW... reading the documentation?  What were you thinking!

> I think it is best to have unique column name. it Solaris 10's case it
has
> smf
> to fall back on, giving up svcs to windows camp looks ok me.
>
> tj
>
> > Andy.
> >
> >> tj
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Bob Gordon
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:47 PM
> >> Subject: [hobbit] Solaris 10 service monitoring
> >>
> >> Hello -
> >>
> >> I'm running into an issue where I need to monitor the individual
> >> services ( svcs -a ) instead of the processes (ps -ef) on multiple
> >> Solaris 10 clients.  I didn't see anything in the man pages about it
> >> (although I may have missed it) so I was wondering if anyone has
> >> been able to set Hobbit up to do so?
> >>
> >> Sample output from svcs -a
> >>
> >> $ svcs -a |head -20
> >> STATE          STIME    FMRI
> >> legacy_run     Jul_28   lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S00umask_sh
> >> legacy_run     Jul_28   lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S29wrsmcfg
> >> legacy_run     Jul_28   lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S51installupdates
> >> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/system/sysidtool:net
> >> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/system/sysidtool:system
> >> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/network/rpc/keyserv:default
> >> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/network/rpc/nisplus:default
> >> disabled       Jul_28   svc:/network/nis/server:default
> >> online         Jul_28   svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
> >> online         Jul_28   svc:/system/zones:default
> >> online         Aug_15   svc:/application/hobbit:default
> >>
> >> I need to be able to alarm if zones goes offline or if nisplus goes
> >> online (for example)...
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> --
> >> --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--


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