[hobbit] completely confused

[Tim Rotunda]

Henrik,
I have bb-central loaded but I can't get it to .def file to build unless
I manually run bb-central.sh.  Now I have to comment out the call to
bbnet, and insert a command I want to run between the quotes on the ssh
line.  Then it dumps the output from my ssh into bb-central.dat in the
tmp dir.

So after jacking with this most of my day, I decided to just run bb with
what looks like the data that the bb-xxxx.pl scripts are trying to send
and viola, I get something.  That seemed way to easy and tells me I need
to be pulling metrics and feeding them using my own code.  I am just not
real clear on how I feed data into hobbit and get the graphing too.
Where can I see details of the format for sending data into Hobbit.  I
used bb to send data into hobbit and it brought up a graph when I
drilled into that metric, unlike sending it from my own code via the
IP:PORT from a remote system.

Did that make any sense?
Thanks for any help.
Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:13 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:46:32PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
[about BB-central]

> I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can get it running.

Well, this one has me stumped.

Getting it to run was pretty easy, but it appears to be rather
broken.

The main script bb-central.pl generates bb-central.sh, which has the
commands needed to login to a remote system via ssh and retrieve data.
The only problem is that it generates an ssh command that just logs
in; then it sits there in an interactive session and does nothing.

As far as I can see, the perl-script should add the commands needed to
collect the data, but it doesn't. I even tried setting it up to run
under a BB client, and it gives me the same problem.

I think I'll post to the BB list and see if the author has some idea
about what's going on.


Henrik

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