Re: {bb} bb-top.sh, bb-axis.sh

[Misty Stanley-Jones <misty@borkholder.com>]

Do you mean the bb-hosts on the display server?  Here is my current line:


192.168.1.5     blah.yadda.com # testip !telnet axis

On Thursday 27 May 2004 01:43 am, Ralf.Strandell@silja.com wrote:
> I am using the bb-axis.sh to monitor a total of 26 Axis print servers.
>
> Use the "axis" keyword in bb-hosts:
>
> 127.0.0.1	hostname	# axis
>
>
> Known problems: bb-axis.sh uses ftp to get status reports from the Axis
> print servers. Sometimes the ftp connection might hang because of network
> related problems or bugs in ftp clients etc. As bb-axis.sh works
> sequentially, all tests are blocked until the hung ftp process is killed.
> This situation is easy to detect: all axis tests go purple, or clear if
> they are "dialup". If you are unlucky enough to have such a system that
> hangs occasionally, then you just need to adjust the PURPLEDELAY of
> bb-axis.sh and have a cron job to kill old ftp-processes. But if you are
> lucky you will never encounter this annoyance.
>
> Of course I could modify the bb-axis.sh to make it parallel... I have just
> been to lazy for that... If you have trouble with the script, then let me
> know and I'll make some little modifications.
>
> Note: If you want the bbchkhosts.sh diag script to work too, then add
> "axis" there too. Something like this: bbchkhosts.sh: Around line 144:
>
> 	case $param
> 	in
>
>           http* | dns | dig | BBNET | BBDISPLAY | BBPAGER | BBRELAY:* |
> dialup | noping | testip | noconn | badconn:* | class:* | route:* | axis )
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Misty Stanley-Jones [mailto:misty@borkholder.com]
> > Sent: 26. toukokuuta 2004 22:02
> > To: bb@bb4.com
> > Subject: {bb} bb-top.sh, bb-axis.sh
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get the above two ext scripts to work.  I get
> > no errors for
> > either of them, but no output in the BBDISPLAY.  For the bb-axis.sh
> > especially, I am wondering how the heck it knows the IP of
> > the print server
> > to monitor.  I can't see where to tell it that.  For the
> > bb-top.sh, I have an
> > empty bb-toptab because I wanted to see the default values.
> > Do I have to
> > have something in it?  Also should bb-top.sh be in the ext
> > scripts for the
> > server, or for the client for which I want it to run.
> >
> > I realize these are two different scripts, but I wanted to
> > throw it out there
> > to see who else is using them.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Misty
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