Re: [hobbit] How to run an arbitary script on the client end?

[Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>]

As far as I know there is no built-in functionality to dynamically 
execute remote scripts and get their output. Others may have better 
suggestions, but one way of doing it, is you could set the client-side 
script to be launched by the hobbit client every X minutes, (via 
clientlaunch.cfg). I'm not sure of the best way to get the script output 
back to the hobbit server though. I guess you could have the script 
output to a logfile , and then have the hobbit server monitor that log 
via the normal log monitoring mechanism
.
-Charles

Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> Is there a way to confgure a client, via client-local.cfg or 
> otherwise, to run some arbitrary command on the client and send it's 
> stdout/stderr back to the hobbit server?  I have a few simple shell 
> scripts that exist on some clients that it would be nice to invoke and 
> then read their results on the server end using the "$BBHOME/bin/bb 
> localhost clientlog..." method.  Similar to the way a 
> "file:path_to_file" directive will collect a file's metadata?  I want 
> something like "runprogram:path_to_program"
>  
> I am doing this currently using a server-side script that ssh'es to 
> the client machine and runs what it needs.  I would rather have the 
> normal Hobbit client collect the data output by the client-side 
> program, upload that, and my server-side script would parse that 
> resulting clientlog rather than going and collecting it's own data.  
> If this is possible.
>  
> Thanks!