Troubleshooting

Lately, there’s a lot of interest on ChatGPT, and yes, it’s really impressive the way it processes the context to provide answers to the questions. To give it a try, and put into play the requirements for writing a Risu plugin, I wrote some of the requirements in a paragraph: I want to create a bash script for checking system status. The script should use return codes to indicate success, failure, information, error or skipped via the values stored in the variables $RC_OKAY, $RC_SKIPPED, $RC_ERROR, $RC_FAILED and $RC_INFO. ...

A colleague reported some issues in the OpenShift troubleshooting and diagnosis scripts at OpenShift-checks. Some time ago I did contribute some changes to use functions and allow using the RISU wrapper to the scripts, helping consuming the results via RISU’s HTML interface. As my colleague reported, for some plugins, the output of the command was not shown in the HTML Interface. After some investigation, it was found that parallel execution for the plugins was causing no output to be shown, but when filtering to individual ones via risu -i XXXXXXX/plugin -l it was working fine… the problem was not the check itself, as both of them worked fine when executed individually but failed when executing them together. ...

Citellus: Detecting common pitfalls of deployments https://github.com/citellusorg/citellus Recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDzzqrUdn5A What is Citellus? Citellus is a framework populated by community-contributed scripts that automate detecting problems, including configuration issues, conflicts with package versions, and more. History: how did was it started? The tool, started by Robin Černín after a long weekend shift checking one and over again several sosreports for the same data on different hosts. It started with some tests + shell wrapper, and was added a python wrapper by Pablo Iranzo to bring in more powerful features. ...