System Monitoring with Xymon/Other Docs/HOWTO/Custom Server Scripts

Server-side scripts look almost the same as client-side scripts, but they will typically use the bbhostgrep utility to pick out hosts in the bb-hosts file that have a special tag defined, and then send one status message for each of those hosts. Like this: #!/bin/sh BBHTAG=foo # What we put in bb-hosts to trigger this test COLUMN=$BBHTAG # Name of the column, often same as tag in bb-hosts $BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep $BBHTAG | while read L do set $L # To get one line of output from bbhostgrep HOSTIP="$1" MACHINEDOTS="$2" MACHINE=`echo $2 | $SED -e's/\./,/g'` COLOR=green MSG="$BBHTAG status for host $MACHINEDOTS" #... do the test, perhaps modify COLOR and MSG $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` ${MSG} " done exit 0 Note that for server side tests, you need to loop over the list of hosts found in the bb-hosts file, and send one status message for each host. Other than that, it is just like the client-side tests. This script is saved in ~/hobbit/server/ext/my_script.sh, and you add its description in ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg: [foo] ENVFILE $BBTHOME/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD $BB/ext/my_script.sh LOGFILE $BB/logs/myscript.log INTERVAL 5m The service can now be added to the bb-hosts file: 127.0.0.1 my_server # foo