centralized management of clientlaunch.cfg
I have a number of custom scripts spread across multiple machines; I understand how to configure them in clientlaunch.cfg but I would like to keep them in a single config file (it's impractical to maintain this many individual configs). Has anyone written a tool to manage push/pull of the configs and generating individual hobbit-clients.cfg, or otherwise duplicate what bb-bbexttab did?
-Lachlan
We maintain everything on one central server and then use rdist to push them out to the clients. I have one clientlaunch.cfg file which has everything in it and all of the ext scripts test if they are running on the right host. This could be done better, but we don't have enough monitored clients to make it worth the extra effort.
If I was going to improve it I would have the clientlaunch.cfg file have m4 directives to select stanzas for the host being rdisted to (we actually us a system called distrib built on top of rdist which does this automatically), that way a single clientlaunch.cfg file would serve as the source for multiple files on the various clients. The same system (distrib) would control which clients got which ext scripts.
Steve.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Don Lachlan <brightlancer at gmail.com>wrote:
I have a number of custom scripts spread across multiple machines; I understand how to configure them in clientlaunch.cfg but I would like to keep them in a single config file (it's impractical to maintain this many individual configs). Has anyone written a tool to manage push/pull of the configs and generating individual hobbit-clients.cfg, or otherwise duplicate what bb-bbexttab did?
-Lachlan
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In <d44304420812170806u5e4eab49vc9f1e912ec8b1b8a at mail.gmail.com> "Don Lachlan" <brightlancer at gmail.com> writes:
I have a number of custom scripts spread across multiple machines; I understand how to configure them in clientlaunch.cfg but I would like to keep them in a single config file (it's impractical to maintain this many individual configs). Has anyone written a tool to manage push/pull of the configs and generating individual hobbit-clients.cfg, or otherwise duplicate what bb-bbexttab did?
You could grab the "hobbitlaunch" program from the current development branch; it has a new "ONHOST <pattern>" setting for each task - the task will only run if the local hostname matches the <pattern>. E.g.
[myscript] CMD $BBHOME/ext/myscript.sh ONHOST (www|mail).foo.com
Regards, Henrik
Hi, We're having some trouble getting hobbit to ignore a red proc on a restart of a process.
In bb-hosts, I have:
204.155.140.144 iadpimp1-vsnl.interprise.com # DOWNTIME=*:0200:0230:systemrestart
In hobbit-clients.cfg, I have:
HOST=iadpimp1-vsnl.interprise.com PROC tail 0 1 red "TEXT=tail - testing paging and ignoring times" PROC AppServer.exe 3 7 red "TEXT=Visionael Application Server"
And in hobbit-alerts.cfg, I have:
$HG-PRIMARY=starsky(.*)|iadorap1(.*)|iadnasp1(.*)|mdsobj3(.*)|cher(.*)|h umility(.*)|stnpres1(.*)|stntrapp1(.*)|mdstf1(. *)|firetwo(.*)|totlccwm1(.*)|brinkley(.*)|iadcap1(.*)|iadcap2(.*)|stngeo p1(.*)|iadpres1(.*)|iadpimp1-vsnl(.*)|iadpimp1- ca(.*)|iadtatp1(.*)|iadobjs1(.*)|phm1ssxc01m . . . HOST=%$HG-PRIMARY COLOR=red EXSERVICE=memory DURATION>7 MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN IGNORE HOST=iadpimp1-vsnl(.*) SERVICE=proc TIME=*:0200:0230,*:1500:1600 MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS
We've tried many other combinations. And can get it to work for a test SERVICE, using bb to make the test service red. But when we have procs in there, I get paged no matter what. At 2:15am. Not so fun.
I put the "PROC tail 0 1 ..." in for testing with proc.
This happened in 4.2.0. So today, I downloaded 4.2.2 in source forge and compiled and installed it. Does the same thing.
I'd also tried the DOWNTIME directive (why you see it there) but that's not working either.
Anybody have any words of wisdom here?
Thanks, Paul.
Paul Root IM/MNS Infrastructure
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
In <d44304420812170806u5e4eab49vc9f1e912ec8b1b8a at mail.gmail.com> "Don Lachlan" <brightlancer at gmail.com> writes:
I have a number of custom scripts spread across multiple machines; I understand how to configure them in clientlaunch.cfg but I would like to keep them in a single config file (it's impractical to maintain this many individual configs). Has anyone written a tool to manage push/pull of the configs and generating individual hobbit-clients.cfg, or otherwise duplicate what bb-bbexttab did?
You could grab the "hobbitlaunch" program from the current development branch; it has a new "ONHOST <pattern>" setting for each task - the task will only run if the local hostname matches the <pattern>. E.g.
[myscript] CMD $BBHOME/ext/myscript.sh ONHOST (www|mail).foo.com
Regards, Henrik
Ooh, I will be on that as soon as I can upgrade. Thanks! Steve.
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