Phil,
I think we have a misunderstanding? We have many remote sites, each with a
server running Retrospect to perform backups. BBWin is not running on the
servers at these remote sites. Retrospect simply sends emails when the
backups complete. Retrospect does have the ability to call a script when a
backup completes but, that would require installing BBWin on all the remote
servers and creating/configuring the Retrospect script, etc. To avoid doing
that we want to trigger hobbit alerts based on the emails we are already
receiving from Retrospect on the remote servers.
Josh
*From:* Phil Wild [mailto:user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:25 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Backups
Sorry, I wasn't clear... I was talking about the server.
Can the server run a script att he completion of every backup job?
Cheers
Phil
On 27/02/2008, *Joshua Johnson* <user-8faf1205c498@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Phil,
We are using Retrospect and yes it does provide the functionality you are
talking about however, we don't want to install the BBWin client on all of
these systems. That is why we are going the email route, it doesn't require
any changes to the clients.
Josh
*From:* Phil Wild [mailto:user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:16 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Backups
Can I ask what backup software you are using?
Rather than processing the email, you may be able to get into the source
of the email. If on backup completion you can run a script and you have
access to the backup status and error message as variables, you would
probably be better off writing a script here that calls bb to send a message
up.
Phil
On 27/02/2008, *Joshua Johnson* <user-8faf1205c498@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Ralph,
See I knew there was a reason I sent that message. Your 2 cents is way
better than what I had!! Why didn't I think of this? It is so much simpler.
To make it easier I will have the Exchange server just forward to Sendmail
so I don't have to change the current setup and then we still get the backup
notification emails. Thank you!
Joshua Johnson
Consultant
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:27 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Backups
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Joshua Johnson
<user-8faf1205c498@xymon.invalid> wrote:
2) Have the Exchange server script send files (ftp or SMB) to the
Hobbit server. These files will then be processed by a server side
script
which could use bbhostgrep to check the files and send the alerts into
Hobbit.
My $0.02 - is there a compelling reason not to just send email to your
Hobbit server?? I've done it that way when it wasn't possible to
deliver reports via hobbit/bb protocol over port 1984.
The way it works is, my (old, decrepit, Redhat 7.2) Hobbit server is
running sendmail. In /etc/aliases I have:
msgman: "| /usr/local/sbin/msgman"
which allows me to send email to user-67a812decf3c@xymon.invalid. Any
incoming email for that address is piped through the msgman script,
which could be written in bash, perl, C, python, &c. What comes
through the pipe via stdin is a bunch of headers, including From, To,
Date & Subject, then a blank line, then the body of the message.
Here's one way to break out the message into useful bits:
#!/bin/ksh
# First line is "From sender date"
read junk sender date
while read token string
do
# Detect a blank line
if [ "X$token$string" == "X" ]; then
break;
fi
# extract the Subject line
if [ "X$token" == "XSubject:" ]; then
subject=$string
fi
done
# pick up first line in body
read text
while read line
do
# pick up any other body lines
text="$text\n$line"
done
# Do "stuff" to discover the system name, the test name, the
color and some message
# ...
LINE="status $SYSTEM.$TEST $COLOR `date`
$MESSAGE"
/home/hobbit/server/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 "$LINE"
I don't think you'd need to load the hobbit environment (I've got this
running in an old BB hierarchy) just to deliver the report.
It's not exactly rocket science, but I then I already had email
working and didn't want to have to maintain ftp/scp/smb across the
company network. I imagine there's a way for Postfix (and other
MTA's) to deliver to a pipe, but maybe not - I simply haven't tried
because it ain't broke... :)
Ralph Mitchell
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