You shouldn't add external tests to bb-hosts. You add them to etc/bb-bbexttab.

-Dan

$ head -30 etc/bb-bbexttab

bb-bbexttab: configuration file for launching external scripts

Format:

host: misc settings : external scripts list

localhost: misc settings : external scripts list

: misc settings : external scripts list

host can be FQDN (fully qualified domain name) or

just a plain hostname but it is preferred that you

use a FQDN.

localhost: using this specifies that the scripts

specified on the line are to be launched on all clients

The same host can be specified on multiple lines to aid readability

Misc settings field is unimplemented ...

For future use...

You can override the default sleep between cycles

by addding a time qualifier to the script:

e.g.: localhost: script1;600

**NOTE** The sleep delimiter in BBEXT of bbdef.sh was

':' (script1:600) but here it is ';'

in order to keep the same format as the

other bb-*tab files (the : is used to delimit

file entry fields in all bb-*tab files) .

The time qualifier is specified in SECONDS

On 1/2/06, Mark Ashley <mark at mark.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to replace the inbuilt SSH test with one that does something intelligent and have put this into ~hobbit/server/ext:

hobbit% cat server/ext/NGssh #!/bin/sh

BBHTAG=NGssh # What we put in bb-hosts to trigger this test COLUMN=NGssh # Name of the column, often same as tag in bb-hosts

$BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep $BBHTAG | while read L do set $L # To get one line of output from bbhostgrep

HOSTIP="$1" MACHINEDOTS="$2" MACHINE=echo $2 | $SED -e's/\./,/g' MSG="$BBHTAG status for host $MACHINEDOTS" reply = ssh $MACHINE -l hobbit /usr/ucb/whoami if [ "$reply" = "hobbit" ] COLOR=green else COLOR=red fi $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date ${MSG} " done exit 0

Then the script is added to bb-hosts:

hobbit% grep NGssh ~hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts group-only conn|cpu|disk|info|memory|msgs|procs|NGssh|trends Campus 123.123.5.52 hostert # noping NGssh 123.123.1.12 hostick # noping NGssh 123.123.16.9 hostker # noping NGssh 123.123.3.11 hostel # noping NGssh 123.123.8.8 hostay # noping NGssh 123.123.5.49 hostmis # noping NGssh 123.123.3.17 hosteus # noping NGssh 123.123.1.11 hosty # noping NGssh 123.123.9.13 hostger # noping NGssh

What else needs to be done to action this script? The script doesn't seem to be running and nothing is appearing in a column. Scripts from the deadcat site mention a BBEXT variable but it's not in any of the hobbit config files.

Thanks, Mark mark at mark.com

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