Derek,

I was wondering if anyone has tried to use the 'who' test to see if anyone is logged on and if someone is logged on have the test go yellow?

I am looking at doing this and instead of trying to re-invent the wheel i was wondering if anyone has tried/or did this already?

I have done it using a client channel test based on Henrik's template, which can be extended for various other functionality - I've put some stuff in there for checking whether the client has a default gateway on .1 (this bit me once with a host with static IP but gateway coming - or not - from DHCP), and also a check for amount of memory allocated to the service console on an ESX host.

You need the following in ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg

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script that checks incoming "client" messages for various conditions

[client-check] ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/client-check.log $BBHOME/ext/client-check.pl

|The client-check.pl script attached sits in the ext directory. It uses the hacked version of BigBrother.pm (also attached). It was originally from deadcat but I've tweaked it a bit - there's also some ancient history in there no longer relevant to xymon. Really need a Xymon::Client module that Buchan suggested.

David.

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