RE: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable

["Shea, Graeme A" <Shea.Graeme.A (at) edumail.vic.gov.au>]

I have reread the thread and may have been misleading you. These fixes
will fix a purple error. A "black" error does not exist (AFAIK), does it
go clear (or white),  have you custom icons that would explain why it is
black and not clear? I believe the scripts are working fine the problem
lies elsewhere.



I notice with my install that if the whole host stops reporting most
tests go clear (shown as a white dot)  and stay that way until the next
time the test is run. If the host comes back on line they still stay
clear. It sort of makes sense because if the host goes offline then
XyMon no longer remembers the timeout and reports no data (which is
correct).



So back to this issue. Are you reporting other tests as well (like disk,
cpu etc.) or only the custom tests.  If the whole host stops reporting
then no data reports would be consistent with my observations.



Hope this helps



Regards

Graeme







From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 11:29 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable



Hi Graeme,

sorry for my last post... I wrote only "green+24" but I meant
"green+24h".

It doesnt work... I forgot to say that im using BBWin v0.12

thanks,
Cayo



2009/6/10 Shea, Graeme A <Shea.Graeme.A (at) edumail.vic.gov.au>

It needs "green+24h" not just "green+24". Everything after the "green"
or "green+24h" will appear on the status page and  something else is
needed on the first line or BBWin (at least in version 0.9) does not
work properly.  An example of one of my files that one of my test
scripts puts in the tmp folder of BBWin is between the dotted lines.



......................................................Start next line
........................................................................
...........................

green+27h Defragmentation completed at 9/06/2009 1:16:26 AM



&green Beginning defragmentation of C: at 9/06/2009 1:00:00 AM

&green Drive C: Successfully defragmented. at 1:09:40 AM



&green Beginning defragmentation of E: at 9/06/2009 1:09:40 AM

&green Drive E: Successfully defragmented. at 1:14:56 AM



&green Beginning defragmentation of F: at 9/06/2009 1:14:56 AM

&green Drive F: Successfully defragmented. at 1:16:14 AM



&green Beginning defragmentation of G: at 9/06/2009 1:16:14 AM

&green Drive G: Successfully defragmented. at 1:16:26 AM







BBDefrag, Shea Technology Pty. Ltd., BBDefrag.vbs Version: 2.0.2



................................................End line
above...................................................................
........................................



Everything apart from the "green+27h" is displayed on the status page.
The "&green" displays a green dot on the status page.



Hope this helps



Regards

Graeme.



From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 8:47 PM


To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable



still not working... now I get this in the page (column "test") -->
Testserver.test

=D

Hobbit seems not to work this parameters out. It simply ignores my
green+24 (still black after 30 minuter) and prints the "testserver.test"
in the webpage...





2009/6/10 Shea, Graeme A <Shea.Graeme.A (at) edumail.vic.gov.au>

I had to put information in the first line after the status message or
it wouldn't work. Something like



"green+24h testserver.test " should work, I add the date and time too.
"green+24h" didn't work for me.



Regards



Graeme





From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 5:08 PM


To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable



Thx for the help guys, but its not working...

Im using BBWin and here is my configuration:


ext script:
oOutFile.WriteLine "green+1d" & vbCrLf
    Else
        oOutFile.WriteLine "red+1d" & vbCrLf



logfile from ext script, which is send to Xymon:
green+1d

    testserver running test



my BBWin.cfg looks like this:
<externals>
    <setting name="timer" value="3m" />
    <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
    <load value="cscript C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\testscript.vbs"
timer="300m" />
</externals>



With this configuration i could get a green status for 43 minutes
(instead of 30) til it got black again... Am I still doing something
wrong?

thanks,
Cayo




2009/6/10 Shea, Graeme A <Shea.Graeme.A (at) edumail.vic.gov.au>

You have to modify the first line of the script to specify the timeout
(time to purple) eg.



"green status Darth.dhcp green 10/06/2009 2:44:50 PM" The dhcp test on
the server "Darth"  have the standard time out



"green+2h status Darth.dhcp green 10/06/2009 2:44:50 PM" The dhcp test
on the server "Darth" will timeout in 2 hours.



"green+1d status Darth.dhcp green 10/06/2009 2:44:50 PM" The dhcp test
on the server "Darth" will  timeout in 1 day



There is (or was) a bug in BBWin in that you have to have data on the
first line after the status or ZyMon generates an error.



Hope this helps

Regards

Graeme



From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 June 2009 7:07 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable



Hi Greg,

thank you for your support, it gave me the right direction! =D

I found out that this lifetime in the scripts should look like this:

$BB $BBDISP "status+70 $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` OK"









































but the Windows .vbs scripts dont give such parameters back to
hobbit-server... I just dont know how to implement this "status+time" in
the vbs scripts...

another thing is that the column dont get purple but black!


Thanks

2009/6/8 HUBBARD, GREG ((EDS)) <ghubbard (at) hp.com>

By default, the Hobbit server expects your tests to update at least once
every 30 minutes.  This is the LIFETIME parameter.  After "LIFETIME"
expires with no updates the server marks the test "purple" and sends an
alert.



The fix is simple -- in your script you need to send a LIFETIME value
when you send your status message.  If you test once every day, you need
to calculate LIFETIME as 24 * 60 + some extra in case your test is
delayed from some reason.



You can read about this in the man pages for the "bb" command (Xymon
communications program).



GLH



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From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae (at) googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:17 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable

Hi guys,

im monitoring with some external scripts on my BBWin and when i try to
set up the "check time" higher (like one time a day) I noticed that the
column get unavaliable after 30 minutes for this client.

Is it a know issue?

I also tryed to put this paragraphs (i readed it here somewhere) in the
hobbit-client.cfg:

MAXMSG_DATA="5242880"
MAXMSG_CLIENT="5242880"
MAXMSG_STATUS="5242880"


Nothing works... do i have to setup something else on server/client
side?







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