[hobbit] how to implement custom tests

[Paul van Eldijk]

On Thursday 7 July 2005 22:27, Reif Jeffery M wrote:
> I installed Hobbit on my (former) BB server.  The clients are reporting
> in normally.  However, I have some tests for hosts (NetApp, Tandem -
> that have no BB client) that run on the BB server and use the bb
> executable to "trick" the server into thinking it received it from an
> external client.  For example:
>
> exec("/opt/bb/bin/bb", $IP, "status $machine.$test $color $now\n
> $status\n
> @array\n
> ")
>   or die( "$1: Couldn't execute BB");
>

If you're using Perl, you can do without bb, e.g.:

    use Sys::Hostname;

    my $line  = "status " . hostname . ".$BBTEST $color ";
       $line .=  scalar(localtime);
       $line .= "\n$status\n at array\n";

    use IO::Socket::INET;

    my $bb = IO::Socket::INET->new("$BBHOST:$BBPORT");

    if ( $bb and $bb->connected ) {
        $bb->send($line);
        $bb->shutdown(2);
    }
    else {
        warn "error connecting to Big Brother (host $BBHOST, port $BBPORT)\n";
    }

HTH,
Paul