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

[Patrick Nixon]

Installed!

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> 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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