RE: [hobbit] Duration for one round of server side module

["Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard (at) eds.com>]

Or use the "time" command in front of the command?  This assumes that
you know where Xymon is writing your log...
 
GLH


________________________________

	From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:09 PM
	To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] Duration for one round of server side
module
	
	
	Maybe I'm missing something, but...  Why not just grab the
system date/time at the start, again at the end, then subtract one from
the other??  If you just print it out, the numbers should go into the
log.  Or generate your own log file by appending the start & end values,
then process later. 

	Ralph Mitchell


	On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 (at) gmail.com>
wrote:
	


		I implemented a server side perl script using this
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/tutorials:ssmodule as the template.

		
		I like to run it only once daily, so I put status+1d for
the bb command. 
		
		But I need help to find out how long it takes for the
script to complete for my ~300 hosts. 
		
		Currently I have it setup just like the setup in the
above url, like the following. 
		
		[pca]
		        ENVFILE
/export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
		        NEEDS hobbitd
		        CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/pca.log $BBHOME
		/ext/pca.pl
		
		And it is taking tons of resources since it receives all
the patch/pkg info from 300 servers through client channel 
		and generate a patch report using the tool pca
(http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/) for each host. It allows us
		to find out the patch status for all solaris boxes
		
		Here is an snippet of the top processes sorted by RSS
		
		   PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME
CPU PROCESS/NLWP       
		  8687 hobbit   2248M  581M run     39    0   0:02:31
1.1% hobbitd_channel/1
		  8648 hobbit     58M   56M run     39    0   0:07:42
2.5% hobbitd/1
		 10223 hobbit     21M   20M run     20    0   0:00:03
15% perl5.8.5/1
		  7115 devmon     11M   11M sleep   59    0   0:00:44
1.5% devmon/1
		  8689 hobbit   8816K 6968K sleep   59    0   0:07:52
2.7% pca.pl/1
		
		If I can find out how long it takes to run I can then
add an INTERVAL accordingly. I do not need to 
		process the client data more than once a day
		
		
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