[xymon] External scripts for Xymon client on Xymon Server

[Ralph Mitchell]

I always used to use cron to run extra checkout scripts - it takes the
guesswork out of scheduling a lot of scripts.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Roland Soderstrom <
rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:

>  This always confused me.
> In beta2 I run the client tasks specified in client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
>
> in beta3 I run the client tasks specified in server/etc/tasks.cfg
> it's even a note in tasks.cfg
> # client tasks are configured here, apart from the normal builtin that runs
> from xymonclient.
>
> I'm not sure which method is the correct one in beta2, the note in beta3
> tells me that is the correct method for beta3.
>
> -Roland
>
>
>
> On 23/12/10 09:54 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> On 12/22/2010 05:43 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
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>  The clientlaunch.cfg is in the client's etc dir, not the server etc dir.  Logs / tmp files will be under the client dir too.
>
> Example, on a hobbit server there are both $hobbithome/{server,client} dirs.
>
> client/ext/na2.sh
>
> [client/etc] tail clientlaunch.cfg
>
> [NA2CPU]
>         ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
>         CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/na2.sh
>         LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/na2.log
>         INTERVAL 2m
>
>  Yes, that much I knew. OK, so I've taken another look at this. It looks
> as if the external client scripts ARE running, but the data doesn't go
> anywhere and there are no ghost clients. I've also checked what I
> believe are all of the places that the port and server address are
> defined to make sure this isn't all going someplace else.
>
> One of my external scripts, for example, is a vmio script. You can see
> it is running the commands needed to accomplish that:
>
>    xymon  4976  4973  0 17:50:09 ?        0:00 vmstat 300 2
>    xymon  4978  4975  0 17:50:09 ?        0:00 iostat -dxsrP 300 2
>
> ...however, about 6 months ago, these tests turned purple (to me, what
> seems like by magic). The other external scripts (one that gets
> temperature and one that does metastat for the SW raid) run too quickly
> for me to tell what their story is, but they do not write anything to
> the client log directory.
>
> Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot this?
>
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