Just write the script to parse the netstat output, then at the end decide if it's green or not and send a message to hobbit with the 'bb' command.

Paul Root IM/MNS Infrastructure
-----Original Message----- From: Gregory Larkin [mailto:glarkin at sourcehosting.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Best way to monitor static routing table entries?

Hello all,

I've been using Hobbit for a few years now, and it has always worked really well for me. Lately, I've added some more tests to certain servers, and one thing I'd like to do is detect the presence/absence of some static routes that are configured on a RHEL4 Linux box.

I could write a script that greps the output of "netstat -rn" and redirects it to a file. Hobbit could monitor the content of the file to make sure it matches some predefined template, I suppose, but is there a more elegant way?

I checked the BB script archive, and I found the bb-route extension, but it's either not the right solution or too complicated for what I want to do.

Any suggestions?

Thank you, Greg

Greg Larkin Managing Member

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In <7FD33A60653949CE943A640CADFAD7DF at FIREBALL> "Gregory Larkin" <glarkin at sourcehosting.net> writes:

I've been using Hobbit for a few years now, and it has always worked really well for me. Lately, I've added some more tests to certain servers, and one thing I'd like to do is detect the presence/absence of some static routes that are configured on a RHEL4 Linux box.

I could write a script that greps the output of "netstat -rn" and redirects it to a file. Hobbit could monitor the content of the file to make sure it matches some predefined template, I suppose, but is there a more elegant way?

The Hobbit client already collects "netstat -rn" as part of the client data. You can view it via the "Client data" link from any status page, or you can grab the latest version of it with ~hobbit/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog HOSTNAME section=route" The netstat-rn output is in the "route" section of the client data.

So it's something fairly obvious to implement as a server-side extension, like the "hobbitd_rootlogin.pl" example that is included in the current snapshot. You can grab it from http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/trunk/hobbitd/hobbitd_...

Regards, Henrik