Feature? svcs

[Vernon Everett <everett.vernon (at) gmail.com>]

Hi all

I have noticed, if you run BBWin, you get the svcs column, showing all the
services running on the client.
And, the server understands this test. I can add entries into
hobbit-client.cfg along the lines of
HOST=foo
 SVC     "SomeService" startup=automatic status=started COLOR=red
and if the service isn't running it will change to a red status.

I want the same functionality for Solaris services.
I wrote a very simple test for Solaris services (see below), but of course,
that's a client-side test, and the services to alert on can't be configured
at server side.
(It will also only register services in maintenance mode, not disabled
services)
I thought maybe I could hack the hobbitclient-sunos.sh to send the stuff
under the [svcs] heading, like BBWin does, but that didn't work. (I assume
there is some logic defining what the server expects from each client type)
I even went so far as to massage the output of svcs -aH to look at least
similar to the BBWin svcs output.

I would like to be able to have a Solaris client, sending service info, and
be able to define entries in hobbit-client.cfg similar to this
HOST=foo
SVC     /system/cron     STATE=online   COLOR=red
And have the server bleat if that service isn't online.

What would that require to make work?

Regards
    Vernon


#!/bin/ksh
TEST="svcs"
SVCS=/usr/bin/svcs
TEMPFILE=$BBTMP/svcs.tmp
COLOUR="green"
date > $TEMPFILE
echo >> $TEMPFILE
$SVCS -x > $TEMPFILE.tmp
EXIT=$?
if [ $EXIT -eq 0 ]
then
   # Command ran OK
   if [ -s $TEMPFILE.tmp ]
   then
      # It's not empty - bad
      COLOUR=red
      echo "There are issues with configured services." >> $TEMPFILE
      echo "Please investigate" >> $TEMPFILE
      echo >> $TEMPFILE
   else
      # It is empty - All is good.
      echo "All services running OK" >> $TEMPFILE
      echo >> $TEMPFILE
   fi
else
   # Error running command
   COLOUR="yellow"
   echo "Error running $SVCS -x " >> $TEMPFILE
   echo "Please investigate" >> $TEMPFILE
   echo >> $TEMPFILE
fi

cat $TEMPFILE.tmp >> $TEMPFILE
rm $TEMPFILE.tmp
$SVCS -a >> $TEMPFILE

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOUR `cat $TEMPFILE`"
rm $TEMPFILE