[hobbit] Custom script shows purple

[Jerald Sheets]

Hobbit has a built in LDAP test if I remember correctly.  Was it not serving your needs?

--jms


On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:55 PM, David Morgan 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
> 
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> the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"
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