Creating Your Own Hobbit / Xymon Tests
Over the years I’ve had to write plenty of Hobbit / Xymon scripts to monitor various different things within my employers systems. Since most all of our applications are custom there are not always built in tests that will work for us. For example, we use Xen for our development virtual machines and being able to track what was going on with those virtual machines is important and being able to identify a VM within Xymon at a moments glance is important to us, so we created a test that does just that. We have created in house scripts for MySQL Status, MySQL Running Queries, our in house distributed services, Lighttpd (as discussed earlier on this blog), Apache, Memcached, etc. This doesnt include the hundreds of different snmp tests we’ve added to Devmon for monitoring our network equiptment.