External scripts for Xymon client on Xymon Server

You probably have a log file somewhere.  In Tim's example, it defined like
this:

         LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/na2.log

If the log doesn't show anything interesting, you should be able to *make*
it show something interesting.  For example, a "set -x" at the top of the
script will show you exactly what it does.

You can also execute the script manually as if it were Xymon executing it,
using the bbcmd command.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>wrote:

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On 12/22/2010 05:43 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:

The clientlaunch.cfg is in the client's etc dir, not the server etc dir.

 Logs / tmp files will be under the client dir too.

Example, on a hobbit server there are both $hobbithome/{server,client}
dirs.

client/ext/na2.sh

[client/etc] tail clientlaunch.cfg

[NA2CPU]
        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/na2.sh
        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/na2.log
        INTERVAL 2m

Yes, that much I knew. OK, so I've taken another look at this. It looks
as if the external client scripts ARE running, but the data doesn't go
anywhere and there are no ghost clients. I've also checked what I
believe are all of the places that the port and server address are
defined to make sure this isn't all going someplace else.

One of my external scripts, for example, is a vmio script. You can see
it is running the commands needed to accomplish that:

  xymon  4976  4973  0 17:50:09 ?        0:00 vmstat 300 2
  xymon  4978  4975  0 17:50:09 ?        0:00 iostat -dxsrP 300 2

...however, about 6 months ago, these tests turned purple (to me, what
seems like by magic). The other external scripts (one that gets
temperature and one that does metastat for the SW raid) run too quickly
for me to tell what their story is, but they do not write anything to
the client log directory.

Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot this?

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