FW: {bb} bb-dftab column information

["Dombrowski, Neil" <ndombrowski@tickets.com>]

We found a script on deadcat called bb-disk_by_fs.sh, which explained how to
configure bb-dftab for checking filesystems and paging separate groups, and
simply by using this format we were able to get what we wanted. Perhaps this
script already was implemented into our HP bb systems (bb18d4) before I
happened along. Anyway, it appears to be working now. Here's a blurb from
the script:

########## DESCRIPTION ##########
# This script has been modified on May 2, 2001 by Tim Reed
(tim.reed@motorola.com).
# This script will create separate columns on BBDISPLAY based on
# the lines in BBDFTAB. This will allow paging different people or groups
# depending on which filesystem is producing the alert.

# The new format of the BBDFTAB file:
#      host:partition:WARN:PANIC:COLNAME

# PLEASE NOTE: if a disk is listed in bb-dftab,
# a HOST and COLNAME must be included, they are not optional.
# Unlike the default bb-disk.sh, this script will not recognize
# empty host fields or 'localhost' in the host field.


Thanks,
     Neil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] On Behalf Of Philip Clark
> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: bb@bb4.com
> Subject: Re: {bb} bb-dftab column information
> 
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 04:11, Dombrowski, Neil wrote:
> > We're having a problem displaying multi-column disk information from an
> > HP-UX system, and I haven't found anything on the 'net that says this is
> a
> > real feature, so maybe we're going about this the wrong way.
> >
> > In our bb-dftab we have(as an example):
> >
> > /opt:91:95
> > /home:85:95
> > /app1:90:91:app1-disk
> > /app2:90:91:app2-disk
> >
> > What this does is provide a column called "app1-disk" and another called
> > "app2-disk" after the normal "disk" column. The app1-disk and app2-disk
> get
> > monitored just fine, but the "un-columned" filesystems (/opt & /home in
> this
> > example) don't seem to get monitored anymore. If we remove the "column
> > names" so none have them, then they all get monitored but all pages go
> to
> > the same entity.
> >
> > What we're trying to accomplish is to have the sysadmin group paged for
> > standard filesystems (/opt, /home) and have the syseng group get paged
> for
> > the app filesystems.
> 
> I don't see how your current set-up is working and I'm tempted
> to conclude that you are running a custom version of bb-disk.sh
> to support the extra field in bb-dftab. If that is the case,
> it's not really possible for others to debug it :(
> 
> If what you are looking for is a way to alert different people
> for different filesystems, you should be able to achieve what
> you want using custom paging scripts. Examples are provided in
> the ext/pg directory.
> 
> Cheers, Phil.
> 
> 
> 
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