The Xymon (Hobbit) client for z/OS uses the same client communications
mechanism as all of the other clients. There is code on the host (the z/OS
system) that sends the client package to the Xymon server, then there is
backend code on the Xymon server that analyzes the data received and
integrates it into Xymon.
You have part of it correct, the client side (z/OS). What's missing is the
server side (Xymon) code.
If you want to tailor the code to add your databases section, you are
certainly free to do so. The code is delivered as part of Xymon 4.3.
It will be somewhat easier to implement a custom test (see Buchan's post).
On 05/13/2010 12:16 AM, David Hurst wrote:
Hi All,
I am (very) new to Hobbit, and have searched for an answer to this one –
but the answers I seem to find include writing a script to obtain certain
information and post it to Hobbit.
Basically, this pertains to the tests being done on my mainframe (z/OS). I
have the z/OS monitor running there (works great) & have changed some code
to pass some database information back to my hobbit server (only very simple
information at the moment – until I get this working), so it looks like this
in the “client data” on the server :
client mf.zos zos
[osversion]
z/OS 01.10.00 HBB7750
JES2 z/OS1.10
[date]
Thu May 13 06:59:10 CST 2010
[uptime]
Uptime: 11 Days, 11 Hours, 6 Minutes
[cpu]
CPU Utilization 10%
[paging]
............
[databases]
ADADB029 Database 029
The [databases] at the bottom is a new test that I am performing, but for
the life of me cannot get it to display in a new column on my hobbit web
page. How do I tell Hobbit that there is a new “section” in the data which
is passed from my mainframe that must be displayed? Or do I need to write a
script to strip the information off and post it into hobbit that way? To
write a script to strip the info off the mainframe data just doesn’t quite
make sense to me …
I am running Xymon4.3.0-0.beta2.
Regards
Dave
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