There is a nice write-up about incorporating custom scripts into hobbit (xymon) on the help menu @ help->.Tips and Tricks.

The status "dot" will appear by whatever you tell hobbit to place it at in your "bb" status message. So the command that Josh put in point #2:

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date

Actually expands to something like:

/hobbit/client/bin/bb 10.1.1.25 "status myserver.dns.domain Custom_Test green Wed Nov 4 08:19:23 CST 2009"

So on your web page a server named myserver.dns.domain with a test column of Custom_Test with a green status.

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:54 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] custom scripts

1. Look at http://xymon.com/hobbit-cgi/viewconf.sh 172.16.10.5 miro.hswn.dk # ssh http://miro.hswn.dk/

Then look at the miro.hswn.dk server under the http column here: http://xymon.com/hobbit/servers/servers.html

Just put your information in. No custom script needed.

2. I can't help with custom scripts but the document expressed you need to...

Tell Hobbit about it

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date

and you have not done that in your script - that's definitely a concern. Perhaps looking at other scripts will help you - these are on the Deadcat and Xymonton here: http://www.deadcat.net/ http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Payam Jahromi <pjahromi at checkpoint.com> wrote:

I am a newbie to Hobbit, and this is probably a simple question

to answer. Here is what I'm trying to do:

I have custom scripts I need to incorporate to Hobbit. I saw the

page http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-tips.html#scripts but I still don't completely understand it. If I could get 1 of my scripts set up, then I can probably figure out how to do the rest.

I have 2 types of custom scripts: client and server. Here is an

example of each. I just need to know exactly how the script would be set up. Note, I had these running on Nagios before:

1. (server) this is the custom script we ran on our old

monitoring (nagios):

#!/bin/sh

 

WEB_CHECK=`curl http://www.example.com | grep value | wc -l`

 

if [ $WEB_CHECK -eq 1 ]

   then

        echo "Result OK"

else

        echo "Failed"

        exit 2

fi

 

Question: Need to know how to incorporate this on the hobbit

server, and where it would show on the GUI?

2. (client) this is custom script that used "NRPE" on nagios:

- I have a script that runs on 3 clients, let's call it

/usr/local/sbin/script.pl

- this script returns an output of a number

- on the hobbit server, I want to be get the result of this

script for each client, add them together, then alert based on the number. So here is the script I had on the Nagios server:

#!/bin/sh

# Script to check transactions on ecom-1/2

 

THRESHOLD=1

SERVER1=`ssh server1 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl`

SERVER2=`ssh server2 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl`

SERVER3=`ssh server3 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl`

 

TOTAL=`expr $SERVER1 + $SERVER2 + $SERVER3`

 

 

if [ $TOTAL -lt $THRESHOLD ] ; then

     echo "Number ($TOTAL) Failed"

     exit 2

else 

     echo "Number ($TOTAL) Success"

     exit 0

fi

 

Question: How would I incorporate that in Hobbit?

 

Thanks!

Payam