There is a nice write-up about incorporating custom scripts into hobbit (xymon) on the help menu @ help->.Tips and Tricks.

The status "dot" will appear by whatever you tell hobbit to place it at in your "bb" status message. So the command that Josh put in point #2:

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date

Actually expands to something like:

/hobbit/client/bin/bb 10.1.1.25 "status myserver.dns.domain Custom_Test green Wed Nov 4 08:19:23 CST 2009"

So on your web page a server named myserver.dns.domain with a test column of Custom_Test with a green status.

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:54 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] custom scripts

1. Look at http://xymon.com/hobbit-cgi/viewconf.sh 172.16.10.5 miro.hswn.dk # ssh http://miro.hswn.dk/

Then look at the miro.hswn.dk server under the http column here: http://xymon.com/hobbit/servers/servers.html

Just put your information in. No custom script needed.

2. I can't help with custom scripts but the document expressed you need to...

Tell Hobbit about it

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR date

and you have not done that in your script - that's definitely a concern. Perhaps looking at other scripts will help you - these are on the Deadcat and Xymonton here: http://www.deadcat.net/ http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Payam Jahromi <pjahromi at checkpoint.com> wrote:

I am a newbie to Hobbit, and this is probably a simple question

to answer. Here is what I'm trying to do:

I have custom scripts I need to incorporate to Hobbit. I saw the

page http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-tips.html#scripts but I still don't completely understand it. If I could get 1 of my scripts set up, then I can probably figure out how to do the rest.

I have 2 types of custom scripts: client and server. Here is an

example of each. I just need to know exactly how the script would be set up. Note, I had these running on Nagios before:

1. (server) this is the custom script we ran on our old

monitoring (nagios):

#!/bin/sh

 

WEB_CHECK=`curl http://www.example.com | grep value | wc -l`

 

if [ $WEB_CHECK -eq 1 ]

   then

        echo "Result OK"

else

        echo "Failed"

        exit 2

fi

 

Question: Need to know how to incorporate this on the hobbit

server, and where it would show on the GUI?

2. (client) this is custom script that used "NRPE" on nagios:

- I have a script that runs on 3 clients, let's call it

/usr/local/sbin/script.pl

- this script returns an output of a number

- on the hobbit server, I want to be get the result of this

script for each client, add them together, then alert based on the number. So here is the script I had on the Nagios server:

#!/bin/sh

# Script to check transactions on ecom-1/2

 

THRESHOLD=1

SERVER1=`ssh server1 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl`

SERVER2=`ssh server2 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl`

SERVER3=`ssh server3 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl`

 

TOTAL=`expr $SERVER1 + $SERVER2 + $SERVER3`

 

 

if [ $TOTAL -lt $THRESHOLD ] ; then

     echo "Number ($TOTAL) Failed"

     exit 2

else 

     echo "Number ($TOTAL) Success"

     exit 0

fi

 

Question: How would I incorporate that in Hobbit?

 

Thanks!

Payam

Each Hobbit client will have to be reconfigured to send data to both servers. This will require you to "touch" each system, which you might not be able to do.

GLH

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Nordquist, Daniel < Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com> wrote:

Hey all, I’m running hobbitmon 4.2.0 and I’m having an issue with client information not displaying on my hobbit status page. I can add objects RE: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx server # https://server and it will display the http and sslcert status, along with conn, info and trends, but I can’t see any other information like cpu, disk, etc. The only server I have all status info for is the hobbit server itself.

I’m using 4.2.0 because we have a server in house at that version and all our clients are running the older client, and the Xymon server/client is not compatible (according to our hobbit admin). The other hobbit server displays all the status data for the same client servers I’m testing against with my hobbit server, but mine does not.

Any ideas?

Before anyone asks why I’m installing a second server, it’s so my team can gather trends and information on our own without relying on another team to set up the clients/servers.

Thanks!

Dan

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Thanks Greg. I can't find where I would make that setting. Can you enlighten me?

Thanks, Dan

From: Greg Hubbard [mailto:glh.forums at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] possible issue with two hobbit servers reporting for the same client?

Each Hobbit client will have to be reconfigured to send data to both servers. This will require you to "touch" each system, which you might not be able to do.

GLH On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Nordquist, Daniel <Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com<mailto:Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com>> wrote: Hey all, I'm running hobbitmon 4.2.0 and I'm having an issue with client information not displaying on my hobbit status page. I can add objects RE: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx server # https://server<https://server/> and it will display the http and sslcert status, along with conn, info and trends, but I can't see any other information like cpu, disk, etc. The only server I have all status info for is the hobbit server itself.

I'm using 4.2.0 because we have a server in house at that version and all our clients are running the older client, and the Xymon server/client is not compatible (according to our hobbit admin). The other hobbit server displays all the status data for the same client servers I'm testing against with my hobbit server, but mine does not.

Any ideas?

Before anyone asks why I'm installing a second server, it's so my team can gather trends and information on our own without relying on another team to set up the clients/servers.

Thanks! Dan

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