[xymon] Feature? svcs

[David Baldwin]

Vernon,
> I have noticed, if you run BBWin, you get the svcs column, showing all
> the services running on the client.
> And, the server understands this test. I can add entries into
> hobbit-client.cfg along the lines of
> HOST=foo
>  SVC     "SomeService" startup=automatic status=started COLOR=red
> and if the service isn't running it will change to a red status.
>
That is using the 'client' message type for reporting. On one of the
bbwin hosts svcs report you will notice a link near the bottom to
"client data" which shows the full report.
> I want the same functionality for Solaris services.
> I wrote a very simple test for Solaris services (see below), but of
> course, that's a client-side test, and the services to alert on can't
> be configured at server side.
> (It will also only register services in maintenance mode, not disabled
> services)
> I thought maybe I could hack the hobbitclient-sunos.sh to send the
> stuff under the [svcs] heading, like BBWin does, but that didn't work.
> (I assume there is some logic defining what the server expects from
> each client type)
> I even went so far as to massage the output of svcs -aH to look at
> least similar to the BBWin svcs output.
>
I assume there is some hard-coded testing in hobbitd based on client
type (win32/linux/solaris/etc) for the standard reports.

A general solution is to use a test that reports on the client channel.
Note that you can do initial filtering on the new client message header
for OS type, etc.

I've just spent a bit of time tidying up some code I've been meaning to
do for ages and put on xymonton.
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:check-client
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:xymonext.pm

It would be fairly easy to add to the solaris hobbitclient-solaris.sh to
add a [svcs] session, and then add a custom test to client-check.pl

David.

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