WG: Some Problems with cfengine...

[Faeth Markus]

is nobody able to help me? (see below)

>  -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Faeth Markus  
> Gesendet:     Montag, 18. Februar 2002 11:57
> An:   'help-cfengine@gnu.org'
> Betreff:      Some Problems with cfengine...
> 
> Hello,
> 
> a part of our daily administration issue is to check the output of the
> daily_check.sh scripts, sent by every server in our farm. In this
> script all information about the server and processes an so on.. are
> written by executing simple commands like (ps -ef, df -k, netstat -a,
> ifconfig -a, ...). This mails are checked every morning and our
> administrator spends a time of nealy 2 hours to do so. We hope to
> reduce this time by using cfengine.
> That is why I try to understand cfengine and it's configuration. Till now
> I came across some problems and I hope you can help me:
> 
> ->processes:
> -------------------------------------
> I was able to configure cfengine to check if all necessary processes are
> working and to warn if not. Now a question is
> how can I check for processes that are not configured... like shell
> processes and so on that aren't allowed to be there?
> I tried to write a complicated regular expression to do so, but it did't
> work.
> 
> Another problem is that I have to check for httpd processes that are
> working more than 24 hours. I thought with 'filters' it can't
> be that difficult, but I couldn't manage it:
> 
> ...
> filters:
>    { httpd
>       FromSTime:      "accumulated(0,0,1,0,0,0)" 
>       ToSTime:        "inf"
>       Result: "STime"
>    }
> ...
> processes:
>    "/usr/bin/httpd" filter=httpd action=warn
> ...
> 
> results in a 'Segmentation Fault'!
> surely you have some experience and can help me build the right statement.
> 
> 
> ->disk:
> -------------------------------------
> you wrote that disks would be an synonym for required. disks ends in a
> parse error and required works well. (?)
> But it doesn't seem to work right anyway; my df -k:
> 
> Filesystem            1k-blocks       Used    Available       Use%
> Mounted on
> /dev/hda6             4008380 354788  3449972 10%     /
> /dev/hda5             54384           2495    49081           5%
> /boot
> ...
> required:
>    /dev/hda6 freespace=100mb
> 
> results in:
> ...
> Filesystem /dev/hda6 looks sensible
> Free space above 102400, defining
> ...
> 
> I tried to set the sensiblesize and sensiblecount variables, but I did't
> change anything.
> And how can I configure cfengine to output the required errors without
> verbose mode, so that
> only an output appears, when really something got wrong? It does't help us
> to get a another long mail, which
> we have to parse manually.
> 
> 
> ->cfengine and cygwin
> ----------------------------------------
> My test-system is a linux 7.3 OS. Now another task is to test cfengine on
> NT. I read in your documentation that
> you need an unix emulation like Cygwin or UWIN. So I installed Cygwin and
> compiled cfengine successfully.
> - Now point number one is that the process list only contains processes of
> Cygwin (only bash and ps itself).
>   Do you know if Cygwins ps is able to get NT's processes; so that's they
> can be checked by cfengine?
> - I tried required:
> 
> ...
> required:
>    /cygdrive/c freespace=100mb
>    /cygdrive/d freespace=100mb
> ...
> 
> results in:
> ...
> cfengine:*: Can't stat /cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys in required/disk
> cfengine:*: lstat: Permission denied
> 
> I'm logged in as Administrator and there doesn't seem to exist a root user
> under cygwin! (?)
> Do you have an idea what I do wrong?
> 
> 
> I know that this are a lot of questions at once and perhaps some silly
> ones, but I'm a newby (apprentice) and
> happy about every kind of information and help about this topic.
> 
> 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> Markus Faeth
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