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color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks. Your suggestion triggered an idea on how
to do this. client-local.cfg supports backticks to run a program to
generate a logfile name dynamically. So I'll try to make use of that and
do something like this (haven't tested it yet):</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Add to client-local.cfg</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>log:`/path/to/the/program 2>&1
1>/path/to/the/logfile; echo /path/to/the/logfile`</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>I<SPAN class=203360521-08062007>f this exact syntax
won't work, it should be easy to use some similar concept. The built-in
backtick processing of the log: directive being the key
point.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=203360521-08062007>Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr@cisco.com]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 08, 2007 2:49 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] How to run an arbitary script on
the client end?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>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<BR>.
<BR>-Charles<BR><BR>Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=934245519-08062007>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 <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E
href="file:path_to_file">"file:path_to_file"</A> directive will collect a
file's metadata? I want something like
"runprogram:path_to_program"</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=934245519-08062007>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=934245519-08062007>Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></BODY></HTML>