[hobbit] Custom script shows purple

[David Morgan]

Yes, the script is being executed.  I think it is the server not
knowing that it only runs every four hours.  How can I set the default
for this check to be 4 hours (and leave the rest at 30 mins)?  Or can
you do that?

Dave

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Scott Ryan <scottlryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the script being executed? Assuming it is, have you configured the
> server to only expect the check to be run every 4 hours? If not it
> will go purple after 30 minutes every time as that is the default
> check timeout.
>
> If the script is not running at all, what do the xymon logs say? If it
> has an issue running the script you should see it in the logs. You
> could check that the xymon user has the rights to execute the script.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:55 PM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We have a custom client side script that we wrote to test ldap
>> connectivity  (See below)
>>
>> % cat getent.sh
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>>   COLUMN=ldap-con      # Does the server have an LDAP conection
>>   COLOR=green          # By default, everything is OK
>>   MSG="LDAP Connectivity Check"
>>
>>   TESTVAL=`/usr/bin/getent group admins | wc -l`
>>
>>   # Do whatever you need to test for something
>>   # As an example, go red if /tmp/badstuff exists.
>>   if [ $TESTVAL -eq 0 ]
>>   then
>>      COLOR=red
>>      MSG="${MSG}
>>
>>      LDAP Configureation and Connectivity is BORKED UP
>>      "
>>   else
>>      MSG="${MSG}
>>
>>      LDAP Configureation and Connectivity is OK
>>      "
>>   fi
>>
>>   # Tell Hobbit about it
>>   $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`
>>
>>   ${MSG}
>>   "
>>
>>   exit 0
>>
>>
>> And the following is our clientlocal.sh portion for this script:
>>
>> # LDAP Check - This command makes sure that this box is connected to
>> the MGS LDAP Server
>> [ldap-con]
>>        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
>>        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/getent.sh
>>        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/ldap.log
>>        INTERVAL 4h
>>
>> As can be seen, we have it running every 4 hours.  The status check
>> should be green, however, it goes to purple.  Is there a way (and
>> where/how) to change the default timeout for this, as I think the 4
>> hour time is making it puke.
>>
>> Both these scripts are on the client side.
>>
>> --
>> David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP
>> aka: captkras at gmail.com
>>
>> "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough,
>> the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"
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David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP
aka: captkras at gmail.com

"When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough,
the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"