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How can i check or query the values from a other column in a script?
I wooul like to execute a script1 that create the COLUMN 1, this script1
use the status, maybe COLOR o hobbitgraph variable from  a COLUMN2
 
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I don't write scripts but maybe you could curl the status page and
look at the background (it's red or green based on condition).

On 11/26/09, Aulestia Jimmy <user-d9ec8fc5bab2@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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If you have access to the server, you can query the status table a lot
easier than that.  Look in the man page for the bb command.  You'll use
something like:

     server/bin/bb localhost 'hobbitdboard'

There's a bunch of arguments you can pass to pick out information by column
(test name), host name, color, &c.

Once you've worked out what you want, you can have your script launched by
xymon at regular intervals, in which case you'd use:

     $BB $BBDISP 'hobbitdboard arg1 arg2 etc"

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Josh Luthman

<user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>wrote:

On Friday, 27 November 2009 02:32:13 Aulestia Jimmy wrote:

Start with 'man bb' ...

What scripting language are you planning on using? Shell scripting? I have an initial perl module which should make it easy to do something like this in perl (without executing bb), but I haven't tried something like this in it. If you are considering perl, I would make it available to get some feedback ..

If you just want to combine some existing tests, you can have a look at bbcombotest. Enable the task in hobbitlaunch.cfg, and see 'man bbcombotest' and 'man bbcombotest.cfg'

o hobbitgraph variable from  a COLUMN2

If you want values from the graphs, you need to get them out of the rrd files. In shell scripts, you would use 'rrdtool fetch', see 'man rrdfetch'. In perl, you could use the perl RRD module.

AFAIK, thresholds from RRD files is on the roadmap for Xymon, which might in future allow you to do this without scripting.

Regards,
Buchan

I recently found the bb command with the hobbitdboard to work pretty well for grabbing info on a specific test and specific host:

# ./bbcmd
# bb 136.180.70.203 'hobbitdboard <full_host_name_as_in_bb-hosts>.conn' <full_host_name_as_in_bb-hosts>|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1258268784|1260293536|1260295336|0|0|136.180.70.203|-1|green <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Dec  8 12:31:25 2009 conn ok

// notice the single quotes for the DATA area, as the "bb" command only takes two arguments, you have to encase these in quotes

Getting that command to run in a script is a little more complex and required me to do an su to the xymon user ...

        CMD='/usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop '${HOSTNAME}'"'
        echo ${CMD}
        su - xymon -c "${CMD}"

Some other useful stuff is in there too, check out http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man1/bb.1.html.

Hope that helps.

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How can i check or query the values from a other column in a script?
I wooul like to execute a script1 that create the COLUMN 1, this script1 use the status, maybe COLOR o hobbitgraph variable from  a COLUMN2
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I would like to set up a check for some processes to change color only
if the process

has been 'down' for more than '15' minutes (eg more than 3 poll
periods.)

 
I have over 2500 servers located in different time zones from AST thru
HST.

Various jobs/processes are shut down for 5-15 minutes each day at
various times throughout the day on each server.

 
We don't want to generate any events on the bb2.html page if these jobs
are only down for less than 15 minutes and then start back up.

 
Running version Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/>; 

 
I tried to set "DURATION>16" in hobbit-clients.cfg  :

      PROC "%.*ssh " 0 3 red TRACK=ssh DURATION>16

 
but it seems to be ignored

# ~xymon/server/bin/bbcmd ~xymon/server/bin/hobbitd_client --dump-config
| head -20

Shows:

PROC "%.*ssh " 0 3 red TRACK=ssh HOST=s09trbrxs (line: 386)

I know the DURATION qualifier will work in the hobbit-alerts.cfg; is
there an equivalent 
setting in the hobbit-clients.cfg section for the PROC section?


Thanks,


Tom Brand

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