Custom script shows purple

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:06:24 -0400, David Morgan <user-4691629dd582@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

See all the fun stuff one can do with Xymon?

Jerald Sheets wrote:

Yeah, that's it's usage.

So, I guess from time to time the clients have issues hitting the
server?

Never thought to test in that direction.  


--j


On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:49 AM, David Morgan wrote:

  

We wanted to test the connectivity from the LDAP clients (running a
xymon agent) to the LDAP server and report their connectivity status.

It appears (at least from what I read) that the LDAP module is a test
from the Hobbit/XYmon Server to the LDAP server.

Dave

Jerald Sheets wrote:
    

Hobbit has a built in LDAP test if I remember correctly.  Was it not
serving your needs?

--jms


On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:55 PM, David Morgan 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: user-4691629dd582@xymon.invalid

"When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough,
the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

Hi,

Could you share your script on xymonton ?

Regards,
Damien