You shouldn't add external tests to bb-hosts. You add them to etc/bb-bbexttab.
-Dan
$ head -30 etc/bb-bbexttab
# bb-bbexttab: configuration file for launching external scripts
#
# Format:
#
# host: misc settings : external scripts list
# localhost: misc settings : external scripts list
# : misc settings : external scripts list
#
# host can be FQDN (fully qualified domain name) or
# just a plain hostname but it is preferred that you
# use a FQDN.
# localhost: using this specifies that the scripts
# specified on the line are to be launched on all clients
#
# The same host can be specified on multiple lines to aid readability
#
# Misc settings field is unimplemented ...
# For future use...
#
# You can override the default sleep between cycles
# by addding a time qualifier to the script:
# e.g.: localhost: script1;600
# **NOTE** The sleep delimiter in BBEXT of bbdef.sh was
# ':' (script1:600) but here it is ';'
# in order to keep the same format as the
# other bb-*tab files (the : is used to delimit
# file entry fields in all bb-*tab files) .
# The time qualifier is specified in SECONDS
#
On 1/2/06, Mark Ashley <user-fe6952e72a18@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to replace the inbuilt SSH test with one that does something
intelligent and have put this into ~hobbit/server/ext:
hobbit% cat server/ext/NGssh
#!/bin/sh
BBHTAG=NGssh # What we put in bb-hosts to trigger this test
COLUMN=NGssh # Name of the column, often same as tag in bb-hosts
$BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep $BBHTAG | while read L
do
set $L # To get one line of output from bbhostgrep
HOSTIP="$1"
MACHINEDOTS="$2"
MACHINE=`echo $2 | $SED -e's/\./,/g'`
MSG="$BBHTAG status for host $MACHINEDOTS"
reply = `ssh $MACHINE -l hobbit /usr/ucb/whoami`
if [ "$reply" = "hobbit" ]
COLOR=green
else
COLOR=red
fi
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`
${MSG}
"
done
exit 0
Then the script is added to bb-hosts:
hobbit% grep NGssh ~hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts
group-only conn|cpu|disk|info|memory|msgs|procs|NGssh|trends Campus
123.123.5.52 hostert # noping NGssh
123.123.1.12 hostick # noping NGssh
123.123.16.9 hostker # noping NGssh
123.123.3.11 hostel # noping NGssh
123.123.8.8 hostay # noping NGssh
123.123.5.49 hostmis # noping NGssh
123.123.3.17 hosteus # noping NGssh
123.123.1.11 hosty # noping NGssh
123.123.9.13 hostger # noping NGssh
What else needs to be done to action this script?
The script doesn't seem to be running and nothing is appearing in a
column. Scripts from the deadcat site mention a BBEXT variable but
it's not in any of the hobbit config files.
Thanks,
Mark
user-fe6952e72a18@xymon.invalid