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

Patrick Nixon pnixon at gmail.com
Tue Jun 8 19:11:16 CEST 2010


It's unlikely I'm ever going to run into those errors as we do backup to disk :)

I did add a $GREP -v "You have messages." to the end of the list jobs
line, because I think I saw it come across in one of the updates.

--Patrick

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Bill Arlofski <waa-bacula at revpol.com> wrote:
> On 06/07/10 16:07, Patrick Nixon wrote:
>> 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!
>>>
>>> Josh Luthman
>
>
>
> Hi Josh, Patrick!  Glad to see my efforts have helped someone! :)
>
>
> Just wanted to comment that the part of the script where it runs the bconsole
> "status dir" command will surely require a little "tuning" depending on your
> environment and requirements.
>
> On the initial, hurried posting of that script I was incorrectly grepping for
> "is waiting on" OR "mount"  which would of course catch things like "is
> waiting on storage..." and "is waiting on max client jobs..." and probably a
> few others.
>
> Surely these are cases that may occur in an environment where there are many
> clients, and/or many jobs running simultaneously and might not represent an
> issue that needs attention.
>
> I plan on making the status messages being grepped a variable in the next
> update so they are easily modified and not obscured/blended into the script
> itself.
>
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