[hobbit] Custom script shows purple

[Scott Ryan]

The wiki -

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/FAQ#My_test_only_runs_every_hour._How_do_I_get_it_to_not_go_purple_after_30_minutes_.3F

Then the man page - you need to run

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:57 PM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, the script is being executed.  I think it is the server not
> knowing that it only runs every four hours.  How can I set the default
> for this check to be 4 hours (and leave the rest at 30 mins)?  Or can
> you do that?
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Scott Ryan <scottlryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is the script being executed? Assuming it is, have you configured the
>> server to only expect the check to be run every 4 hours? If not it
>> will go purple after 30 minutes every time as that is the default
>> check timeout.
>>
>> If the script is not running at all, what do the xymon logs say? If it
>> has an issue running the script you should see it in the logs. You
>> could check that the xymon user has the rights to execute the script.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:55 PM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We have a custom client side script that we wrote to test ldap
>>> connectivity  (See below)
>>>
>>> % cat getent.sh
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>
>>>   COLUMN=ldap-con      # Does the server have an LDAP conection
>>>   COLOR=green          # By default, everything is OK
>>>   MSG="LDAP Connectivity Check"
>>>
>>>   TESTVAL=`/usr/bin/getent group admins | wc -l`
>>>
>>>   # Do whatever you need to test for something
>>>   # As an example, go red if /tmp/badstuff exists.
>>>   if [ $TESTVAL -eq 0 ]
>>>   then
>>>      COLOR=red
>>>      MSG="${MSG}
>>>
>>>      LDAP Configureation and Connectivity is BORKED UP
>>>      "
>>>   else
>>>      MSG="${MSG}
>>>
>>>      LDAP Configureation and Connectivity is OK
>>>      "
>>>   fi
>>>
>>>   # Tell Hobbit about it
>>>   $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`
>>>
>>>   ${MSG}
>>>   "
>>>
>>>   exit 0
>>>
>>>
>>> And the following is our clientlocal.sh portion for this script:
>>>
>>> # LDAP Check - This command makes sure that this box is connected to
>>> the MGS LDAP Server
>>> [ldap-con]
>>>        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
>>>        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/getent.sh
>>>        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/ldap.log
>>>        INTERVAL 4h
>>>
>>> As can be seen, we have it running every 4 hours.  The status check
>>> should be green, however, it goes to purple.  Is there a way (and
>>> where/how) to change the default timeout for this, as I think the 4
>>> hour time is making it puke.
>>>
>>> Both these scripts are on the client side.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP
>>> aka: captkras at gmail.com
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
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> David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP
> aka: captkras at gmail.com
>
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> the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"
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