Why dont you just use the SCRIPT feature of hobbit-alerts? You can setup ssh authentication between your hobbit server and hobbit clients. Then if a specific test goes red, its executes the script, which in turn ssh's to the remote server having the issue and executes the script there to resolve the issue or whatever you need it to do.
We did this with a legacy application we use to have, the app would stop listening on its ports and the only way to fix it was to respin the application. So hobbit would test the port and if it failed it would send a page and fire off a script to spin the app. After a while we got tired of the pages so we had it email a generic mailbox that someone checked once in a while and removed it paging us. Worked great, never had customers complaints on that specific app after that.
Trent
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:55 -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
Wonder if there is any way to tell a client what it's status is so it can be autonomous? What I mean is this: suppose there was a way for the Hobbit client to tell the server that service X was now in state Y, and a client-side module could then activate response Z on its own?
I know the Hobbit model is to have the server own the configurations, but how do we solve the "trust" problem?
GLH
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:41 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Highlights of the 4.3.0 version
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 08:01:12PM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
Here is another feature I like to see.
A way for the hobbit server to request hobbit clent to run a command locally based on an alert. [snip] So whenever there is a msgs alert run that command locally on the client
Run this as a client extension:
#!/bin/sh
Get the current status of the "msgs" column
MSGSSTATUS=
$BB $BBDISP "query $MACHINE.msgs" | awk '{ print $1 }Get the command we must run from the client config
CMD=
grep "^msgsrecovercmd:" $BBTMP/logfetch.$MACHINEDOTS.cfg | sed -e 's!^msgsrecovercmd:!!'If "msgs" is red and there is a command, run it
if test "$MSGSSTATUS" = "red" -a "$CMD" != "" then $CMD fi
exit 0
Before doing this, consider the security implications of having your servers run commands that they fetch from a remote host without authentication.
Regards, Henrik
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