[Xymon] minor bug report

[Brand, Thomas R.]

It would be nice to be able to fix it in one location; however, the script that generates the
 data [hobbitclient-linux.sh] runs on the client so it has to be fixed there.

Without this change on the client side, the correct information does not get to the server
so there isn't anything to 'fix' on the server side.

NB: I had to make this change on 7300 clients  . . . )



From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Larry Barber
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 10:13 AM
To: Scott Pfister
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] minor bug report

Since this report is parsed on the server (we're using "centralized" configuration), I don't think the client version makes a difference. The server is 4.3.3. I'm not sure what the client is, I didn't install it and there is not an obvious way of determining what version it is. That it dates from the "Hobbit" days is all I can tell by looking at it.

I could use the perl scriptlet, but I'm monitoring a couple hundred of these boxes, I would rather fix it in once in a centralized location. Also, shouldn't this scriptlet go in the "top" section?

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Scott Pfister <icepickjazz at gmail.com<mailto:icepickjazz at gmail.com>> wrote:
You didn't specify what verison of the client you are running on SLES.  This might have been fixed in newer clients.   In any event the problem is that under SLES, the uptime command shows
'day' for uptime > 24 hours && <48 hours; eg, 1 day
'days' for uptime > 48 hours; eg 3 days

The server is looking for 'days'

You can modify  the [uptime] section in ~hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh and added a perl
Command to change ' day ' to  ' days '.


echo "[uptime]"
uptime | perl -pe "s/^(.*) day (.*)/\1 days \2/"


On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com<mailto:lebarber at gmail.com>> wrote:
SuSE systems report uptime as being up "1 day" rather than "1 days" as other Linuxes do. This seems to cause Xymon to skip the trends graphing during the period from 24 to 48 hours after a machine has been rebooted. No big deal, but one of my administrators is rather anally retentive about that sort of thing,

Sample from the top of "top" on a SuSE box:

top - 08:15:59 up 1 day, 12:40,  0 users,  load average: 0.48, 0.97, 0.84

Tasks:  57 total,   1 running,  56 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

Cpu(s):  5.0%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 91.8%id,  1.6%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.2%si,  0.3%st









Mem:   2047752k total,  2038620k used,     9132k free,    98792k buffers

Swap:   514696k total,      488k used,   514208k free,   630832k cached

Thanks,
Larry Barber
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