On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Nikesh Maharaj <NMaharaj at tcta.co.za> wrote:

Good afternoon all,

I am currently running BackupExec v12.5 . is there any way I can amalgamate the “successful emails” into Xymon?

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Cayo de Moraes wrote:

nobody knows anything about it?

any help would be appreciated.

2009/11/18 Cayo de Moraes <camorae at googlemail.com <mailto:camorae at googlemail.com>>

Hi guys,

just like we use the file hobbit-clients.cfg to manage DISK, CPU,
PROCS etc. for each client, we would like to have a centralized
configuration for the external scripts.

So far I tested two things:

1)  Server-side check:
bb-hosts entry (for the external scripts), additional code entry in
the external scripts (for bbhostgrep), etc.

Problem: this seems to work only with "Network checks" which will be
done from Server-side to check the clients, like advanced
ftp/ping/ssh script etc. It doesnt work for scripts, wich have to
run on the clients, like mysql checks.


2) ONHOST:
the entry ONHOST in the hobbitlaunch.cfg.

Problem: this is not working for me... i tought with this entry
Hobbit would be able to issue an order to the client and then
execute the command in the client, but when looking into the
logfiles, i see that Hobbit have to find the external script on the
Hobbit-Server (i think its the same result as in Problem 1). I
tought it would work as a "bb-bbextab"... but the MAN Pages says it
has to be configured on the server....

I also feel confused... We use ONHOST but in clientlaunch.cfg (which is centrally managed). Don't know why the ONHOST keyword is described in hobbitlaunch.cfg.

Example:

[localtest] ONHOST hostname1|hostname2|hostname3 ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/localtest.sh LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/localtest.log INTERVAL 5m

Dominique

Cayo de Moraes wrote:

nobody knows anything about it?

any help would be appreciated.

2009/11/18 Cayo de Moraes <camorae at googlemail.com <mailto:camorae at googlemail.com>>

Hi guys,

just like we use the file hobbit-clients.cfg to manage DISK, CPU,
PROCS etc. for each client, we would like to have a centralized
configuration for the external scripts.

So far I tested two things:

1)  Server-side check:
bb-hosts entry (for the external scripts), additional code entry
in the external scripts (for bbhostgrep), etc.

Problem: this seems to work only with "Network checks" which will
be done from Server-side to check the clients, like advanced
ftp/ping/ssh script etc. It doesnt work for scripts, wich have to
run on the clients, like mysql checks.


2) ONHOST:
the entry ONHOST in the hobbitlaunch.cfg.

Problem: this is not working for me... i tought with this entry
Hobbit would be able to issue an order to the client and then
execute the command in the client, but when looking into the
logfiles, i see that Hobbit have to find the external script on
the Hobbit-Server (i think its the same result as in Problem 1). I
tought it would work as a "bb-bbextab"... but the MAN Pages says
it has to be configured on the server....



So guys, do i have another way to manage this external scripts
(which have to be run on the clients) in the Hobbit-Server?

TIA,
Cayo

If you want to configure script running on the clients (remotely) from the Hobbit server, I think you have two options. Both will require a little bit of coding in your client side.

1. You can arrange (maybe write a small script to do it periodically) to run something like: $BB $BBDISP "config myconfigfile" (see the man page for the "bb" command). The idea is to add custom configurations to this "myconfigfile" in your server/etc directory, and use this command on the clients to update a local copy onto the client. You script can then parse this as desired.

2. You can use the client-local.cfg on the server to send out custom configurations, as well. For a particular hostname or class entry in there, you can add a line with some parameters... say something like:

[myhost] log:/var/log/messages:10240 myconfig:something=1280 somethingelse=foo

Note that the client will pull the first matching block from client-local.cfg back when it contacts the server to send test results. The client-local block will get saved on your client in a file under $BBTMP, in a file named like "logfetch.hostname.cfg." You could use this mechanism to get configurations to your client, by looking for your lines in this file (starting with "myconfig:"), and parsing it for your configurations.

Hope this gives you some starting ideas. -Alan