It is not doing that right now. I could easily rewrite it to do so, but that is not the ideal solution.

Basically, you pass it an IP address, it performs the tests and calls bb to send the status to the server.

Stewart

-----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't your script be parsing the bb-hosts file for the router_test tag? If that's the case, then it should run fine. Unless you are statically defining your tests.

Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com

-----Original Message----- From: Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us [mailto:Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same?

Greetings,

We are looking at migrating from BB to Hobbit. One major stumbling block right now is that we have over 400 devices on the network right now that we monitor via SNMP. Firewalls, Routers, proxies, etc.

Our basic script in BB was under the ext folder on the server and was run every 5 minutes when bbtest-net ran. An instance of this script was called for each device we needed checked. It pulled the IP address of the device from the environment variables and called the bb executable with it's result when the test was completed. This doesn't seem to be possible in hobbit. Every reference I've seen in the archives has told people to use hobbitlaunch.

Unless I'm misunderstanding things (which is possible...), I can tell hobbitlaunch to fire off my external script every 5 minutes, but the script will only run that one time, meaning I'd have to modify my script to run a loop through all of the devices that I want the test run for. This is not really the way we want to go, because then it ignores the hosts that are planned down for maintenance and such.

What I'd like to do is add a service tag in the bbhost file called router_test. Then, when the network tests are run, hobbit should be smart enough to know that there is an external script defined in hobbitlaunch.cfg that matches that tag and run it for that machine. Is this possible?

Little help for a newbie to Hobbit?

Stewart

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