[Xymon] BBWin Externals

Thu Oct 4 16:18:59 CEST 2012

Hi Scott,

Might be a couple of obvious points but is the cpu file disappearing
from /tmp and is it definitely called just cpu and not cpu.something. 

If it's disappearing from the /tmp directory shortly after it got
created then it should be getting to the server. The next thing I'd look
at is the format of your file. I'm not sure that you can feed a file in
from an external script and then get the server to check the values, you
might need to amend the script to do the threshold checking for you and
send a status in the file. 

Try amending it to add a first line containing just [green] (with the
square brackets) and see if it starts showing up.

My other thought is that it may see cpu as a reserved column so you
could try sending it in as Cpu instead of cpu. Maybe it might even work
to just drop the cpu column you currently have. 

I think Xymon or BBWin may be dealing with it differently because it is
not part of the main servername.txt file.

Neil.

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From: Scot Kreienkamp [mailto:SKreien at la-z-boy.com] 
Sent: 04 October 2012 14:51
To: Neil Simmonds; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [Xymon] BBWin Externals

Hi Neil,

That's what I thought too.  That was my first try.  The client is not
reporting CPU data, confirmed by the CPU column being purple right now.
But the CPU data from the external isn't showing up.

Scot Kreienkamp 

From: Neil Simmonds [mailto:Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 9:48 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Scot Kreienkamp
Subject: RE: [Xymon] BBWin Externals

Hi Scott,

The way I would do it is to comment out the cpu.dll line in BBWin.cfg so
that you are not running the standard CPU test, then have your script
write the file into %BBWIN%/tmp called 'cpu'

That should make your external script output show up in the cpu column
as if it was the normal BBWin test. If you are already writing it into
/tmp as cpu but still have the inbuilt test switched on, that could be
your problem.

Regards,

Neil.

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
Of Scot Kreienkamp
Sent: 04 October 2012 14:26
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] BBWin Externals

Hey,

Does anyone know if it's possible to build an externals test and have it
sent in with the regular collected data with BBWin?

I have a machine with a large number of cores and BBWin's CPU section is
unable to handle reporting on it.  I've made an external whose output
exactly matches the CPU section of the data collected and sent to Xymon
by BBWin but I'm struggling on how to get the data sent to Xymon.  When
I write out the data to a file in %BBWIN%/tmp it is sent to the Xymon
server but it seems like nothing is happening with it.  Likely because
the server is expecting a full external test and I'm not sending like
that.  

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Scot Kreienkamp 

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