Hi all

I have made some major changes to how Martin's smf.sh script works. It has changed to the extent that *it is no longer a drop-in replacement for smf.sh*, so I created a new entry for it on Xymonton. Have a look here. http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:smf2.ksh As mentioned in the docs, if you like the simple way of doing things, stick with smf.sh smf2.ksh is substanially more complicated, but can do more.

Some might not like the idea of having two ways to do the same thing. If you are one of those people, I pose to you the following question - "What do you think of Unix?"

Or, to quote a master : Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. -- Larry Wall

Regards Vernon

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:

When it's done, I'll send you the finished product, and we can discuss it then. And there is no way I can take all the credit - without you doing your version, I wouldn't have bothered with mine :-)

Cheers Vernon

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net>wrote:

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You sure you want to rename it? I mean it does exactly the same thing, monitoring the SMF, so I have no problems with you simply overwriting my version and taking all the credit.

Actually, I do wonder if it shouldn't report back under the svcs column, or is it considered bad form to have two different forms of data under the same column heading (I do it already. I have a column called raid. For some Sun servers it reports on metastat(1m) and on others it reports on zfs(1m) output).

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*From:* Vernon Everett [mailto:everett.vernon at gmail.com] *Sent:* 30 July 2010 12:43

*To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [xymon] Feature? svcs

Hi Martin

Gave it a try this arvo, and it looks good. Then came the comments from my colleagues. The comments were all good, but they wanted more. (Don't they always)

One of the features what the ability to monitor a service to ensure it was disabled, and go red if it was enabled.

So, I started adding some features to your code. I thought I would do a put-back as version 2.0 But it's slowly becoming very different. Besides the feature above, it takes one service per line in client-local.cfg and it's in ksh now. (I just prefer ksh over sh)

Once it's done, I will put it onto Xymonton as smf2 or something similar. It's going to be different enough to warrant a new name.

Cheers Vernon

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