topic Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around.... in Operating System - HP-UX

favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:41:20 GMT

Hi add your scripts for a sharing to this thread..
top points awarded for TRIED and TESTED scripts!

swcopy:
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http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x9a6150011d20d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

bdf in MB:
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from the forums.. attached

nickel:
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html collect system info
http://www.grc.hp.com/docs/nickel/

Later,
Bill

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Justo Exposito — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:50:06 GMT

Hi,

This is a script provided by HP in order to get LVM information.

Regards,

Justo.

PD: good issue!!!

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Thierry Poels_1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:10:53 GMT

Hi,

one of the favourite sysadmin scripts should be a cleanup script for /tmp /var/tmp and other (application) temporary directories. As this is server/site specific it's hard to give a standard script.

Another important one is the cfg2html script, which gives you far more information about your server than you ever going to need ;-) (hopefully)
http://members.tripod.com/rose_swe/cfg/cfg.html

regards,
Thierry.

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Animesh Chakraborty — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:13:48 GMT

Hi,
Good examples of script available here.

http://www.introcomp.co.uk/examples/index.html

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Steven Sim Kok Leong — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 09:18:17 GMT

Hi,

My pfsmcd script, many years back. pfsmcd starts the pfs daemons if they have not been started, detects if a CD is already mounted and pfs-mounts the CD (Oracle CD) if it has not been mounted or pfs-unmounts the CD if it has already been mounted.

In addition to root.sh, I had this script added to restricted sam so that the DBA won't come and bother me to mount and unmount Oracle CDs everytime.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

#!/usr/bin/ksh

if ps -ae|grep -v grep|grep pfs_mountd > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
then
echo pfs_mountd already started
else
echo Starting pfs_mountd
nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
sleep 5
fi
if ps -ae|grep -v grep|grep pfsd > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
then
echo pfsd already started
else
echo Starting pfsd
nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &
sleep 5
fi
if /sbin/mount|grep /cdrom > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
then
echo Unmounting /cdrom
pfs_umount /cdrom > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
else
echo Mounting /cdrom
pfs_mount /cdrom > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
fi

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Mark van Hassel — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:48:55 GMT

Not a shell script, but a little C program that creates a detailed memory report.

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Volker Borowski — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:11:12 GMT

Well,
not a shell script, but a complete reference to UNIX:

http://w3.softlookup.com/unix

I am pretty sure you're gonna like chapter 15 Bill :-)

Volker

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Volker Borowski — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:16:25 GMT

Oh dear,

sorry for that link. Came accross it via search engine, and it worked fine, but if you call the link directly, you get a whole lot of commercial popups.

Sorry for that, did not intend to.....
Volker

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:17:56 GMT

wooo, apparently I should be earning $4000 per week!
I'm going to have to speak to my boss about that!

15 - Awk, Awk
oh my God ;)

Later,
Bill

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Wim Rombauts — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:18:11 GMT

The script thta Jesto has given is great for HP-UX 10.20 machines, but returns an error on HP-UX 11.0 and has some layout issues because of new information that is given by HP-UX 11.0.

Some time ago, i have done the effort to modify the script a very little and to correct the layout issues. For anyone who is interested : feel free to use and enhance it further :

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Craig Rants — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:01:01 GMT

There is not much to it, but it always solves the problem of running a script on the last day of the month. Put 28-31 (for days) in your crontab and put this little section in for date determination.

#!/bin/sh

if test `TZ=MET-24 date +%d` = 01
then
exec command
else
exit 1
fi

C

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Duncan Edmonstone — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:06:36 GMT

Can't claim to written this one, but its invaluable notheless...

Produces a map of the lvol locations in vg00

HTH

Duncan

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Tracey — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:11:20 GMT

I have two favorite scripts that I keep on all machines. This one is user_kill

It gets rid of those nasty users who just won't log off when you ask them to in order to do maintenance. It does keep a few users that you don't accidently want to get rid of.

Tracey

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Tracey — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:15:28 GMT

Here is my second one, it is idle_kill a C program. It clears out your system those users have been idle for too darn long, you can also provide a list of users to ignore (wouldn't want to knock yourself off, eh?)

The exception list is just a file with contents like:

root
oracle
tracey

Tracey

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:17:39 GMT

Hi Bill

A small script to ensure that tapes are never missed.

I have it cronned to run on all servers at 16:00 hrs every day.

Change the Email address to suit

-----------------cut here----------------
#!/bin/sh
#############################################
# Check for tape in drive
# PJFC 2002
#############################################
# Check if tape is in Drive (set for correct dev file)
if /usr/bin/mt -t /dev/rmt/0m rew 2>/dev/null ; then
#############################################
echo "----------------------------" >>/tmp/tape-log
date >> /tmp/tape-log
echo "------ Tape in ------" >>/tmp/tape-log
else
#############################################
# Inform if no tape in drive
echo "----------------------------" >>/tmp/tape-log
date >> /tmp/tape-log
echo "------ TAPE NOT LOADED -----" >>/tmp/tape-log
mailx -s "Tape not mounted on N0" paula@avro.co.uk mailx -s "Tape not in on N0" helpdesk@avro.co.uk exit
fi
-----------------cut here----------------

The /tmp/tape-log keeps historical data and the /sysadmin/team just contains the words "Unix Support Team".

Paula

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Deshpande Prashant — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:46:03 GMT

HI
Here is the SysInfo script.

Thanks.
Prashant Deshpande.

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Helen French — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:16:15 GMT

Hi,

Here is a script for sending mail, with message body and attachment.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:23:27 GMT

Hi Bill,

Here is one to find the clock speed of the system.

./mhz

Regds

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Richard Darling — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:18:29 GMT

Here are two scripts that I love; first one uses cpio to copy from one system to another, retaining permissions and ownerships. Second one gives a really nice report on EVERYTHING you might want to know about a system.

RD

Re: favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around....

Alan Riggs — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:20:09 GMT

I use this to centralize common admin tasks. It runs on my admin server and executes a command on any of several preset server groups (specified by server.XXX files).

# cat run
#!/bin/ksh
##############################################################################
#
# THIS SCRIPT RUNS COMMANDS ON REMOTE SERVERS. IT EXPECTS TWO
# COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS:
# $1 SPECIFIES THE EXTENSION OF THE FILE CONTAINING SERVER
NAMES
# $2 CONTAINS THE COMMAND STRING TO RUN ON THE REMOTE SERV
ERS.
#
# CREATED 04/05/00 Alan Riggs
#
##############################################################################
##############################################################################
# ESTABLISH ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES
##############################################################################
FILE_BASE=/home/admin/server
EXTENSION=$1
COMMAND=$2

##############################################################################
# USAGE STATEMENT: CHECK FOR EXACTLY TWO COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
##############################################################################
if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]
then
echo "
usage: run [file extension] [command string]\n
run will execute the command string on one or more remote servers.
The script expects a list of servers in $FILE_BASE.[file extension]
Remember to quote command strings of more than one line.\n "
exit 1
fi

##############################################################################
# RUN THE COMMAND ON THE REMOTE SERVERS
##############################################################################
while read SERVER
do
echo "$SERVER"
remsh $SERVER -n "$COMMAND"
done < "$FILE_BASE"."$EXTENSION"