Thanks for the sharing from Johann and Vernon. I quickly import these two notes into hobbit wiki at

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#Ad...

perfect the wiki notes will be done later(or may not).

Are you still looking after the Hobbit Wiki? Yes. but at not active recently due to other priorities.

One of my priorities related to hobbit is, I am looking at using R1. as framework to produce a hobbit book. The book will draw materials from email list and hobbit wikis.

keywords of mercurial book framework I like are: TeX,graphviz,inkscape(svg),makefile, book with indexes.

Download mercurial book at R2 to take a look. I really wish someday hobbit project has book like this.

R1: http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book/ R2: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.pdf

T.J. Yang

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:47:48 +0100 From: Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Client as a Service on Solaris 10

This is already documented on The Shire:

http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/addons:hobbitsmf

From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au]

Sent: Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 02:25

To: hobbit at hswn.dk

Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Client as a Service on Solaris 10

Hi all

I have set up my Hobbit clients to run (and auto-start) as a service on Solaris 10.

Thought I would share this with the list.

(If I have reinvented the wheel, then apologies for cluttering the list, but I couldn't find anything like this anywhere else)

T.J. Are you still looking after the Hobbit Wiki?

If enough people find this guide useful, it might be good to add it to the Wiki.

For those of you familiar with Solaris 10, you should know about services, but for some, adding new ones is a little tricky.

To get Hobbit working as a sevice we need to do the following.

Create the file /var/svc/manifest/application/hobbit.xml

In it, put the following

Hobbit Monitor Client

Take note of lines 37, 47 and 57, the lines that start "exec=". You may need to edit the path to your Hob bit start script.

To avoid confusion or possible issues, shut down your hobbit client at this point using the runclient script.

Now, as root, run the command

svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/application/hobbit.xml

We should now have a service called hobbit.

svcs | grep hobbit

online 9:23:05 svc:/application/hobbit:default

(It will probably have gone online at this point)

You can now treat it as you would a regular service.

If it hasn't gone online, kick it off as normal.

svcadm enable hobbit

It may be necessary to do a disable and then an enable, but that should get it going.

And because we have set the default as enabled, the service should start automagically when you do a reboot.

Confirm it's all good by doing a # ps -efa | grep hobbit

All the usual scripts should be running.

If you don't want it as a serivce anymore, as root run

svccfg delete hobbit.

This will remove the service, and allow you to continue running it from the runclient script.

Have fun.

Regards

Vernon

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