[hobbit] Hobbit Client as a Service on Solaris 10

[T.J. Yang]

Thanks for the sharing from Johann and Vernon.
I quickly import these two notes into hobbit wiki at 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#Administration_FAQ

perfect the wiki notes will be done later(or may not).

>Are you still looking after the Hobbit Wiki?
Yes. but at not active recently due to other priorities.

One of my priorities related to hobbit is, I am looking at using R1. as framework to produce a hobbit book.
The book will draw materials from email list and hobbit wikis.

keywords of mercurial book framework I like are: TeX,graphviz,inkscape(svg),makefile, book with indexes.

Download mercurial book at R2 to take a look. I really wish someday hobbit project has book like this.


R1: http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book/
R2: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.pdf

T.J. Yang

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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:47:48 +0100
From: Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Client as a Service on Solaris 10


















This is already documented
on The Shire:







http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/addons:hobbitsmf




















________________________________





From:
Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au]

Sent: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007
02:25

To: hobbit at hswn.dk

Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Client as
a Service on Solaris 10









Hi
all



I
have set up my Hobbit clients to run (and auto-start) as a service on Solaris
10.

Thought
I would share this with the list.

(If I
have reinvented the wheel, then apologies for cluttering the list, but I
couldn't find anything like this anywhere else)



T.J.
Are you still looking after the Hobbit Wiki?

If
enough people find this guide useful, it might be good to add it to the Wiki.



For
those of you familiar with Solaris 10, you should know about services, but for
some, adding new ones is a little tricky.



To
get Hobbit working as a sevice we need to do the following.



Create
the file /var/svc/manifest/application/hobbit.xml


In it,
put the following

















        









        









        















        















        















        



        



        









Hobbit Monitor Client


















Take
note of lines 37, 47 and 57, the lines that start "exec=". You may
need to edit the path to your Hob bit start script.



To
avoid confusion or possible issues, shut down your hobbit client at this point
using the runclient script.



Now,
as root, run the command

#
svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/application/hobbit.xml



We
should now have a service called hobbit.

#
svcs | grep hobbit

online
9:23:05 svc:/application/hobbit:default

(It
will probably have gone online at this point)



You
can now treat it as you would a regular service.

If it
hasn't gone online, kick it off as normal.

#
svcadm enable hobbit

It may
be necessary to do a disable and then an enable, but that should get it going.


And
because we have set the default as enabled, the service should start
automagically when you do a reboot.



Confirm
it's all good by doing a # ps -efa | grep hobbit


All
the usual scripts should be running.



If
you don't want it as a serivce anymore, as root run

#
svccfg delete hobbit.

This
will remove the service, and allow you to continue running it from the
runclient script.



Have
fun.



Regards



Vernon









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