[hobbit] Advice on how to handle HA monitoring

Asif Iqbal wrote:

On 9/21/07, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:

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So you are using a custom script to monitor instead of hobbitclient-*.sh ? This really isn't an option for me, since I have literally dozens of servers that all have the same hobbit homedir, although I have written

It does not matter. You can still write an external script like this

[external] ENVFILE /path/to/local/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD /path/to/local/external/script LOGFILE /path/to/local/logs/external.log INTERVAL 5m

That will work just fine even though you are sharing same hobbit client

I tried that...2 problems:

1. I don't have a local place to store things (the homedirs are SAN, and I don't have permissions to use /usr/local and whatnot).
2. I tried similar to above anyway, using /tmp, and the client log fills up with errors because it cannot find the ext script to launch. To get around this, any ext scripts I write, I include a hostname check, such that they only run on the hosts I want. My wishlist item is that Hobbit would support an option to run ext tests via hobbitclients.cfg, but it will probably never be added due to security concerns :)