Re: {bb} External Script problem [bcc][faked-from][bayes]

Sorry 'bout that. Should have included more specific info in the first message:

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BBOUT:

Fri Feb 4 22:46:41 EST 2005: Starting Big Brother...

Starting Big Brother Daemon (bbd)...

Starting Network tests (bb-network)...

Starting Display process (bb-display)...

Big Brother 1.9e started

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bb-bbexttab:

# Generated by .bbconfigure on 200525 at 2:55:40GMT.

# WARNING: Do not edit this file. It will be overwritten by BBConfig.

po02up1mn:ext:apcsnmp.sh

po02up2mn:ext:apcsnmp.sh

po03up1mn:ext:apcsnmp.sh

po04up1mn:ext:apcsnmp.sh

po05up1mn:ext:apcsnmp.sh

po06up1mn:ext:apcsnmp.sh

po07up1mn:ext:apcsnmp.sh

pohsupa1a1:ext:apcsnmp.sh

pohsupa1a2:ext:apcsnmp.sh

pohsupa2a1:ext:apcsnmp.sh

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bb-hosts:

# Generated by ./bbconfigure on 200525 at 2:55:40 GMT.

# WARNING: Do not edit this file. It will be overwritten by BBConfig.

page unix_servers Unix Servers

group-compress Unix Servers

10.22.9.253 pohsnetman3 # BBDISPLAY BBNET BBPAGER

10.22.9.250 pohsapwan # http://pohsapwan/index.html

page dns Domain Name Servers

group-compress Domain Name Servers

10.22.9.15 pohsds01 # ssh dns

10.22.9.16 pohsds02 # ssh dns

page rem_apc Remote Site UPS Status

group-compress Remote Site UPS Status

10.22.128.20 po02up1mn # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.128.21 po02up2mn # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.144.70 po03up1mn # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.176.3 po04up1mn # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.176.36 po05up1mn # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.130.27 po06up1mn # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.129.27 po07up1mn # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

page campus_apc Campus UPS Status

group-compress Campus UPS Status

10.22.3.220 pohsupa1a1 # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.3.221 pohsupa1a2 # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

10.22.3.222 pohsupa2a1 # VOLTAGE CHARGE REPLACE TEMP

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Please let me know if you need anything else.

Mike Dingeldey
mdingeldey@sbcglobal.net

***** If we weren't all crazy, we'd all go insane *****

----- Original Message -----

From: Kevin Hanrahan

To: 'bb@bb4.com'

Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:06 PM

Subject: RE: {bb} External Script problem [bcc][faked-from][bayes]

you have to place the script in $BBHOME/ext and then call ot from $BBHOME/etc/bb-bbexttab. Use the following format:

localhost : : newscript.sh

restart and it should work...if not, send back the results of BBOUT and we will try something else.

hope that helps

Kevin

From: mdingeldey@sbcglobal.net [mailto:mdingeldey@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 2:23 PM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: {bb} External Script problem [bcc][faked-from][bayes]
Importance: Low

Greetings All.

First off, I am a relative newbie to BB, and have finally subscribed to the

mailing list.

I am currently attempting to get an external script to operate correctly to

monitor close to 100 APC UPSes that we have installed (with the APC 9617

card). To that end, I have found the appropriate script on the mailing list

and have made modifications to make it work. It has been modified to use

the correct OIDs and to use snmpget as opposed to snmpwalk.

I'll send it to deadcat in the next few days...

The only problem with said script is that it works fine when I run it manually.

External scripts do not start when runbb-sh is started. I have verified that the

appropriate BB variables are set (and do work) by printing the values throughout

the startup scripts.

I have checked BBOUT and it does not start any of the external scripts. I have trolled

the archives quite extensively, and haven't found any one thing that jumps out at me.

Apart from loosely following Craig's setup guid (and reading all the READMEs and

INSTALLs in everything) I have not made any changes.

I have the following:

Fedora Core 3 on a Compaq DL360. 1.5GB memory. 38.4GB mirrored. It is up-to-date (as

of Friday) with all patches, etc...

I have added Net-SNMP (the latest) after removing the SNMP that came with FC3.

BB 1.9e

bbgen-3.5

fping

Could anyone suggest anything that I should check? I'm certainly at wit's end....

Thanks!