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Miron posted on Fri, Dec 5 2008 7:49 AM
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Hi,

 im sure that this is an obvious question to most. But do we have to run a perl installation on the Solarwinds server for any Perl Scripts to work.

 

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Miron

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josh.clark replied on Fri, Dec 5 2008 8:17 AM
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 It depends on which Monitor Type you select.  Windows Script Monitors run on the Orion Server.  If you want to write your Windows Script Monitor scripts in perl then, yes, you'll have to install ActiveState's perl intepretter.  (You can also write the script in VBScript or JScript, both of which are supported natively on Windows so there's nothing to install.

 If you use a Linux Script Monitor, the script executes on the target node.  You don't have to install perl on the Orion Server for these scripts.  You just need the interpretter on the target node - your scripts can be in perl, PHP, Bash, whatever.  As long as it is installed on the target Linux node.

 

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Miron replied on Fri, Dec 5 2008 8:24 AM
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 Josh,

 

Thanks mate, I have found a Perl Radius Script which I want to test, otherwise Ill have to learn VBScript (and programming is not my strong suit:-)

 

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Miron

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Miron replied on Sun, Dec 7 2008 3:23 PM
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Josh,

Apologies again if this is a dim question, if i run the perl script from the cmd line on the solarwinds server the script successfully tests user authentication against a radius server and returns a code to the cmd line. I notice that the windows script template allows you to define the script but not the expected return.

How does solarwinds typically know what it should be receiving after each poll?

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Miron

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Roger Wong replied on Mon, Dec 8 2008 11:35 AM
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Window Scripts
Scripts must report their status by exiting with the appropriate exit code:
Exit Code
Meaning
0
Up
1
Down
2
Warning
3
Critical
Any other value
Unknown
 
Scripts report additional details by sending text to the script’s standard output. Each line of output can contain a single detail in the following format: DetailType:Value
Detail Type
Required
Meaning
Message
No
An error or information message to be displayed in the monitor status details.
Statistic
Yes
A numeric value used to determine how the monitor compares to its set thresholds.
 
Example output:
# Script output comment
Message: The directory contains too many files.
Statistic: 5

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Miron replied on Tue, Dec 9 2008 10:10 AM
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Roger,

 

I have altered the script that when run from the command line it outputs either:

 

Message: Success

Statistic: 0

 

or

 

Message: Success

Statistic: 1

 

when building the monitor in APM I have copied the script into the script body and replaced vbscript with perl.

At the moment this is failing do you know if there is anything else I have missed.

 

Regards

 

Miron

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Miron replied on Tue, Dec 9 2008 10:14 AM
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Roger,

 

 

Message: Success

Statistic: 0

 

or

 

Message: Failure

Statistic: 1

 

Also these are only the last two lines returned by the script.

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Roger Wong replied on Tue, Dec 9 2008 11:06 AM
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Miron,

Try making those two lines the only string output. I think extra strings break the parser.

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Roger Wong replied on Tue, Dec 9 2008 11:13 AM
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Also, be sure to exit the perl script with an "exit 0;" because that is the exit code that tells Orion APM the Perl script was executed successfully.

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josh.clark replied on Tue, Dec 9 2008 11:32 AM
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What is the error message it is failing with?

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Miron replied on Wed, Dec 10 2008 1:34 AM
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Josh/Roger,

info box

The return code is different to what is expected. The script returned status code down.

When I get back in to work i will check that the radius server is actually receiving requests when orion is running the script in the first place.

I have changed the script to only return the last two lines as suggested and changed the exit to exit 0,

 

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Miron

 

 

 

 

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Miron replied on Wed, Dec 10 2008 2:37 AM
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Josh/Roger,

 

Just to confirm this is the script that I have cut down to for the perl radius monitor. Essentially when I run that script from CMD it is successful and I am able to confirm on the radius logs. From the radius logs I cannot see any attempt from APM to run the script. Do you think I am just not invoking it correctly from APM?

 

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Miron


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Miron replied on Thu, Dec 11 2008 4:53 AM
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Hi,

Has anyone actually got a functioning perl script correctly invoking with APM.

Even if I use a simple print it does not change the status.


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Miron replied on Fri, Dec 12 2008 8:40 AM
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Hi,

I am assuming that anyone has would have this answer is probably on holiday.

Miron

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ghjkl replied on Sat, Dec 13 2008 7:20 AM
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i have same problem. State not changed, no matter exit code value. Try 0,1,2,3,4 exit code state of application not changed it always up. I use Windows script monitor with perl script. I need immediately solve this problem. This very bad for me.

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