I have reread the thread and may have been misleading you. These fixes
will fix a purple error. A “black” error does not exist (AFAIK), does it go
clear (or white), have you custom icons that would explain why it is black
and not clear? I believe the scripts are working fine the problem lies
elsewhere.
I notice with my install that if the whole host stops reporting most tests
go clear (shown as a white dot) and stay that way until the next time the
test is run. If the host comes back on line they still stay clear. It sort
of makes sense because if the host goes offline then XyMon no longer
remembers the timeout and reports no data (which is correct).
So back to this issue. Are you reporting other tests as well (like disk,
cpu etc.) or only the custom tests. If the whole host stops reporting then
no data reports would be consistent with my observations.
Hope this helps
Regards
Graeme
*From:* Cayo de Moraes [mailto:user-92aec3b3c467@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Wednesday, 10 June 2009 11:29 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable
Hi Graeme,
sorry for my last post... I wrote only "green+24" but I meant "green+24h".
It doesnt work... I forgot to say that im using BBWin v0.12
thanks,
Cayo
2009/6/10 Shea, Graeme A <user-06769a90444e@xymon.invalid>
It needs “green+24h” not just “green+24”. Everything after the “green” or
“green+24h” will appear on the status page and something else is needed on
the first line or BBWin (at least in version 0.9) does not work properly.
An example of one of my files that one of my test scripts puts in the tmp
folder of BBWin is between the dotted lines.
………………………………………………Start next line ………………………………………………………………………………………
green+27h Defragmentation completed at 9/06/2009 1:16:26 AM
&green Beginning defragmentation of C: at 9/06/2009 1:00:00 AM
&green Drive C: Successfully defragmented. at 1:09:40 AM
&green Beginning defragmentation of E: at 9/06/2009 1:09:40 AM
&green Drive E: Successfully defragmented. at 1:14:56 AM
&green Beginning defragmentation of F: at 9/06/2009 1:14:56 AM
&green Drive F: Successfully defragmented. at 1:16:14 AM
&green Beginning defragmentation of G: at 9/06/2009 1:16:14 AM
&green Drive G: Successfully defragmented. at 1:16:26 AM
BBDefrag, Shea Technology Pty. Ltd., BBDefrag.vbs Version: 2.0.2
…………………………………………End line above……………………………………………………………………………………………..
Everything apart from the “green+27h” is displayed on the status page. The
“&green” displays a green dot on the status page.
Hope this helps
Regards
Graeme.
*From:* Cayo de Moraes [mailto:user-92aec3b3c467@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Wednesday, 10 June 2009 8:47 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable
still not working... now I get this in the page (column "test") -->
Testserver.test
=D
Hobbit seems not to work this parameters out. It simply ignores my green+24
(still black after 30 minuter) and prints the "testserver.test" in the
webpage...
2009/6/10 Shea, Graeme A <user-06769a90444e@xymon.invalid>
I had to put information in the first line after the status message or it
wouldn’t work. Something like
“green+24h testserver.test “ should work, I add the date and time too.
“green+24h” didn’t work for me.
Regards
Graeme
*From:* Cayo de Moraes [mailto:user-92aec3b3c467@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Wednesday, 10 June 2009 5:08 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable
Thx for the help guys, but its not working...
Im using BBWin and here is my configuration:
ext script:
oOutFile.WriteLine "green+1d" & vbCrLf
Else
oOutFile.WriteLine "red+1d" & vbCrLf
logfile from ext script, which is send to Xymon:
green+1d
testserver running test
my BBWin.cfg looks like this:
<externals>
<setting name="timer" value="3m" />
<setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
<load value="cscript C:\PROGRA~2\BBWin\ext\testscript.vbs" timer="300m"
/>
</externals>
With this configuration i could get a green status for 43 minutes (instead
of 30) til it got black again... Am I still doing something wrong?
thanks,
Cayo
2009/6/10 Shea, Graeme A <user-06769a90444e@xymon.invalid>
You have to modify the first line of the script to specify the timeout
(time to purple) eg.
“green status Darth.dhcp green 10/06/2009 2:44:50 PM” The dhcp test on the
server “Darth” have the standard time out
“green+2h status Darth.dhcp green 10/06/2009 2:44:50 PM” The dhcp test on
the server “Darth” will timeout in 2 hours.
“green+1d status Darth.dhcp green 10/06/2009 2:44:50 PM” The dhcp test on
the server “Darth” will timeout in 1 day
There is (or was) a bug in BBWin in that you have to have data on the first
line after the status or ZyMon generates an error.
Hope this helps
Regards
Graeme
*From:* Cayo de Moraes [mailto:user-92aec3b3c467@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Tuesday, 9 June 2009 7:07 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable
Hi Greg,
thank you for your support, it gave me the right direction! =D
I found out that this lifetime in the scripts should look like this:
$BB $BBDISP "status+70 $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` OK"
but the Windows .vbs scripts dont give such parameters back to
hobbit-server... I just dont know how to implement this "status+time" in the
vbs scripts...
another thing is that the column dont get purple but black!
Thanks
2009/6/8 HUBBARD, GREG ((EDS)) <user-54b18961ee8d@xymon.invalid>
By default, the Hobbit server expects your tests to update at least once
every 30 minutes. This is the LIFETIME parameter. After "LIFETIME" expires
with no updates the server marks the test "purple" and sends an alert.
The fix is simple -- in your script you need to send a LIFETIME value when
you send your status message. If you test once every day, you need to
calculate LIFETIME as 24 * 60 + some extra in case your test is delayed from
some reason.
You can read about this in the man pages for the "bb" command (Xymon
communications program).
GLH
*From:* Cayo de Moraes [mailto:user-92aec3b3c467@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Monday, June 08, 2009 8:17 AM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* [hobbit] BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable
Hi guys,
im monitoring with some external scripts on my BBWin and when i try to set
up the "check time" higher (like one time a day) I noticed that the column
get unavaliable after 30 minutes for this client.
Is it a know issue?
I also tryed to put this paragraphs (i readed it here somewhere) in the
hobbit-client.cfg:
MAXMSG_DATA="5242880"
MAXMSG_CLIENT="5242880"
MAXMSG_STATUS="5242880"
Nothing works... do i have to setup something else on server/client side?
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