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Configuring Big Brother as a Solaris 10 Service

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

 Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org  mkdir /var/svc/manifest/application/monitoringcreate the /var/svc/manifest/application/monitoring/bigbrother.xml file.  contents of bigbrother.xml (change directories, user, group, and stop/start                            script paths to fit your install):---------------------------------------------------------------------------------  <?xml version='1.0'?><!DOCTYPE service_bundle SYSTEM '/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1'><!--    bigbrother.xml : BigBrother manifest, Kyle Reynolds    2006-07-02--> <service_bundle type='manifest' name='bigbrother'><service name='application/monitoring/bigbrother' type='service' version='1'>     <single_instance />    <dependency      name='multi-user-server'      grouping='require_any'      restart_on='error'      type='service'>      <service_fmri ...

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Configuring Big Brother Tests for Miscellaneous Processes

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

 Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org   On the machine running the process you wish to test for, create a script in the $BBHOME/ext directory following the example script below.  Change the `PROC_1` variable to reflect the process you will `grep` for and the `BBPROG` variable to reflect the name of the ...

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Correcting Big Brother html Display

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Tip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org   If the big brother html display is converting <> to lt; and gt; and as a result, the html tags are being printed to the display, check: in bbdef-server.sh, change: RUNOPTS="CONVHTMLTAGS" export RUNOPTS to: RUNOPTS="EMBEDHTML" export RUNOPTS which will ...

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