The problem is that I then have to manage my tests in two locations –
once in the bb-hosts and then I have to write them all out again inside the
script that is run by cron. This would be very inefficient and isn’t a very
pretty solution.
I wanted a way of defining an indicator/testname that could be inserted
into each host entry in bb-hosts (just like all the other network tests are
done) and have the system recognize that it should run the test against that
host. For example, if I add “ftp” in my bb-hosts file, the system is smart
enough to call the ftp test and run it against that specific host
automatically. I want to have a way of defining a new “smb” test that can be
indicated in the bb-hosts just like any other network test and that would
automatically be run against those hosts in the same way that other network
tests are run.
I just don’t know:
1) where these network tests are defined
2) how to define a new network test “smb” to use a specific script
3) how to pass the results from this script to Xymon so that it will
display separate results for each host in their own “smb” column
Thanks!
*From:* user-762ee872a5a4@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-762ee872a5a4@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:35 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Cc:* user-762ee872a5a4@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* RE: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
What I've found is that the BBEXT variable in bbdef.sh was not the
preferred way to run external scripts,
but to use bb-bbexttab instead. The format of the bb-bbexttab "localhost :
: bb-wcheck.pl;900" meant
upon startup run this extension script every 900 seconds.
So Ralph is right on with the hobbitlaunch.cfg or cron suggestions
Hope this helps
Greg Shea
EMC Corporation
*From:* Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:15 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
I *think* that the BBEXT variable in BB is for a list of the external test
scripts to be executed. Those would be migrated to the hobbitlaunch.cfg
file.
You can also use cron to execute the external script - I've done that
successfully for years. You'll need to make sure your script executes with
the hobbit/xymon environment. You can do that using bbcmd.
Ralph Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Harold J. Ballinger <
user-fc4f93976dc8@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Essentially, I just need to be able to define a different type of network
test / external test to be performed by the Xymon server itself. I can't
figure out where the bbdef.sh logic went in the switch over to Hobbit/Xymon.
Or maybe that type of testing isn't supported anymore with Hobbit/Xymon?
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Flemming [mailto:user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:37 PM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
Grrmph, you're right :-(
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
I looked at that too, but it looks like that is a client side test
because it has a portion that you load on the client and a portion that you
load on the server.
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Flemming [mailto:user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:09 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring SMB shares
maybe this
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:samba_servers
cheers,
martin
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
I want a "shares" column to show up for each file server that has smb
shares indicating whether or not the shares are accessible.
In a perfect world, I would like to monitor these SMB shares from the
xymon server itself vs from a client. In my mind, the xymon server would
have a server side script that would allow me to add "shares:Public",
"shares:Users", etc. to the listings in BB-HOSTS. In fact, I had found this
solution on DeadCat called "shares" that is meant to be setup on a BB
server. However, it mentioned editing bbdef.sh to include shares.sh in the
BBEXT variable and I just didn't know where to do this in Xymon
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Gruss
Martin Flemming
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