[hobbit] New client-side external script to monitor Bacula backup server with Xymon

[Josh Luthman]

You are awesome.  Thank you for sharing and documenting!

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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Bill Arlofski <waa-hobbitml at revpol.com> wrote:
>
> The script is a simple (and a little ugly) Bash shell script that uses
> Bacula's bconsole "status dir" command output to see if any jobs are waiting
> on operator intervention, and it also checks the last "x" number of jobs to
> see if any of them failed and reports both instances back to a Xymon
> monitoring server.
>
> For those who do not know, Bacula is an open-source, enterprise network backup
> system that is widely used. It may be found here:
>
> http://www.bacula.org/
>
>
> I wrote the script a while back but modified it today to include checking for
> "intervention required" type issues. An entry for the script has been added to
> Xymonton (http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors#available_monitors),
> and may be found here:
>
> http://www.revpol.com/xymon_bacula_check_script
>
> There are currently no instructions on installing it, but they will be up
> shortly. Basic instructions for installing such a script may be found in the
> Xymon man pages as well.
>
>
> Hope this helps someone somewhere. :)
>
>
> (I cross-posted a similar notice to the bacula-users mailing list today)
> --
> Bill Arlofski
> Reverse Polarity, LLC
> http://www.revpol.com/
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