[hobbit] files test fails to work

[David Gore]

David Gore wrote:
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> David Gore wrote:
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>> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:01:06PM +0000, David Gore wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Here is a file I want to get the 'mtime' for:
>>>>
>>>> -rw-rw-rw-   1 netx     other    2189103 May 20 22:49 
>>>> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb05.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May20 
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I think the colons in the filename are the problem. A ':' is also the
>>> delimiter in file "file:FILENAME[:hash]" entry in client-local.cfg,
>>> so when parsing the "file:..." line it cuts off the filename at the
>>> first colon.
>>>
>>> It should work if you use the 'run-command-to-generate-filenames'
>>> thing, i.e. in client-local.cfg you have
>>>    file:`/usr/local/bin/snmpfilename`
>>> and then the /usr/local/bin/snmpfilename script on your client host
>>> generates these filenames.
>>>
>>>   
>> Well, it works now, but I reported it not working on May 13 at 15:39 
>> GMT using the same command technique.
>>
>> It is still has some issues, however.  Here is what the output looks 
>> like on the web page:
>>
>> yellow 
>> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb05.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May21 
>>
>> File was modified 154 seconds ago - should be <0
>>
>> yellow
>> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16 
>>
>> File was modified 476411 seconds ago - should be <0
>>
>> 'should be <0' ? Perhaps that should be what the test is in 
>> hobbit-clients.cfg entry:
>>
>>        FILE "%.*SIG_SNMP.*" yellow mtime<300
>>        FILE "%.*TEST.*" yellow mtime<100
>>
>> 'should be <300' and 'should be <100'?
>>
>> Both Rich Smrcina and I think that reads backwards, but it's not that 
>> big of a deal.  If I have it correctly, it reads as, 'if file mtime 
>> is NOT less than 300 seconds then alarm'?  Assuming that, the *TEST* 
>> file is firing a yellow alarm correctly, the test for the *SNMP* file 
>> is also reported as yellow, that would not be correct.  If I change 
>> both tests to '>' they remain green.
>>
>> For completeness here is the client-local.cfg:
>>
>> file:`ls -drt /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21*SIG_SNMP/*|tail -1`
>> file:`ls -drt /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21*TEST/*|tail -1`
>>
>> Thank you for your hard work on Hobbit!
> Since, I haven't heard anything, is it something I have wrong?
Today's specifics:

The web page:

yellow 
/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May23
File was modified 157 seconds ago - should be <0

yellow 
/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16.Z
File was modified 32905 seconds ago - should be <0

client data:

[file:/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16.Z]
type:100000 (file)
mode:600 (-rw-------)
linkcount:1
owner:108 (netx)
group:10 (staff)
size:1866
clock:1148389840 (2006/05/23-13:10:40)
atime:1148369697 (2006/05/23-07:34:57)
ctime:1148357239 (2006/05/23-04:07:19)
mtime:1148357239 (2006/05/23-04:07:19)

[file:/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May23]
type:100000 (file)
mode:666 (-rw-rw-rw-)
linkcount:1
owner:108 (netx)
group:1 (other)
size:45134
clock:1148389840 (2006/05/23-13:10:40)
atime:1148389707 (2006/05/23-13:08:27)
ctime:1148389686 (2006/05/23-13:08:06)
mtime:1148389686 (2006/05/23-13:08:06)

[clientversion]


hobbit-clients.cfg:

        FILE "%.*SIG_SNMP.*" yellow mtime<300
        FILE "%.*TEST.*" yellow mtime<900

client-local.cfg:

file:`ls -drt /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21*SIG_SNMP/*|tail -1`
file:`ls -drt /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21*TEST/*|tail -1`


>>
>>>> So then I realize in client-local.cfg on the server you have to 
>>>> have a command or file entry that will resolve to one and only one 
>>>> full path filename?  You can, however, use a regular expression in 
>>>> hobbit-clients.cfg to create a line to match more than 1 file entry 
>>>> in client-local.cfg per host?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Correct.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Henrik
>>>
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