I see a couple of things that could be wrong. Possibly you should be doing "DOMAIN=$2" in the loop?? $1 is the ip address, $2 is the fully-qualified hostname. It seemed to work just fine when I replaced the bbhostgrep line with

 echo "yahoo.com" | while read L

Definitely you should be converting the dots in $DOMAIN to commas. See the second paragraph under "XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX" in the bb.1 manpage. This would do it:

DOM=echo $DOMAIN | sed -e 's/\./,/g' echo $BB $BBDISP "status+12h $DOM.dnsreg $COLOR date

You can test your script using bbcmd:

server/bin/bbcmd server/ext/dnsreg

That kicks off the script with the same environment that Xymon gives it. You probably want to put a 'set -x' in at the top, to see everything that's going on. I generally put an "echo" in front of the $BB line when testing, to minimize the amount of bogus reports going to the server.

Ralph Mitchell

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:31 AM, meepmeep @ Fantasya.org < meepmeep at fantasya.org> wrote:

Hi

I tried to get dnsreg script working, and it's a complete failure .. Here what's I've done so far :

1/ Creating dnsreg script in server/ext/dnsreg (the one from xymon.com, with a little modification). My version :

#!/bin/sh

Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire.

NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.

Requires GNU date.

Should run only once a day.

BBHTAG=dnsreg COLUMN=$BBHTAG NOW=date "+%s" WARNTIME=expr $NOW + 864000 # 10 days ALARMTIME=expr $NOW + 432000 # 5 day

/home/xmon/server/bin/bbhostgrep dnsreg | while read L do set $L DOMAIN=$1

  EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i

"Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[ ]*//' | cut -f1 -d' '" EXPIRES=date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`

  if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME
  then
     COLOR=red
  elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME
  then
     COLOR=yellow
  else
     COLOR=green
  fi

  $BB $BBDISP "status+12h $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`

Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING " done

exit 0

2/ Modify "server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg" to add :

[dnsreg] ENVFILE /home/xmon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD /home/xmon/server/ext/dnsreg LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-dnsreg.log INTERVAL 5m

3/ Modify bb-hosts to add domain with dnsreg test:

group-compress <font size="+1">Servers</font> ... [My classic test, working great] ...

groupe-compress <font size="+1">Domains</font> 0.0.0.0 firstdomain.tld # noconn dnsreg 0.0.0.0 second.tld # noconn dnsreg 0.0.0.0 etc.tld # noconn dnsreg 0.0.0.0 etcetc.tld # noconn dnsreg

Log is still empty, I try to restart/reload hobbit.sh. Nothing show on the website concerning the "Domains" (all others tests are still showing). Moreover, I would like to test the script on a standalone way, but I haven't found the way to do it (like using hobbitd_alert --test)

I'm using xymon 4.3.0.0beta2 on debian, and all other tests are working great :)

-- Nicolas G. / meepmeep