Firstly, please cc the mailing list. Secondly, best to upgrade to Xymon if that's possible.
On 06/08/2014 9:54 PM, "Rod Simioni" <rod.simioni at gmail.com> wrote:
I'll need more flexiability because this xml requires custom headers, etc. I've created a custom script -- I placed it in the /server/ext dir and populated my :hobbitlaunch.cfg with [foo] ENVFILE $BBTHOME/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD $BB/ext/myscript.sh LOGFILE $BB/logs/myscript.log INTERVAL 5m
I can't tell what your script does so I'm guessing that it has the target server name hard coded.
I've placed 'foo' in the bb-hosts file for the bb server
This is not needed. Generally, test names in bb-hosts are used only by the "network" tests (xymonnet or bbnet). Everything else uses their own configurations, typically in-script variables or separate configuration files. It's possible for a script to fetch it's configuration elements from bb-hosts, but that's not very common, and requires the script to do some extra work to get it. Again this is something I can't tell because I don't know what your script is doing.
but I want to monitor the client-less vips. If I placed 'foo' next to my client-less vips, it does nothing, do you have a clue?
The only place you need to define your test name is on the script that sends the status message. Everything else is incidental or superfluous. Even the [foo] in hobbitlaunch.cfg is arbitrary, and as long as its unique, it can be any alphanumeric string of reasonable length.
There's no reason to list the test name in the bb-hosts file. Your script needs to know the host name(s) it's going to test.
Can you show the script?
Have you looked at myscript.log?
J