[hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows

[Vernon Everett]

Indeed.
I prefer the Unix command line, so I normally install it anyway. But
most will have to install it.

The biggest problem with a Windoze client will be the inconsistency of
Windoze.
With some versions, a command is standard. With others you require a
service pack. Still others require the resource kit. Some versions of
Windoze just don't have some commands. It gets quite ugly.
I have been informed by my Windoze admin colleague that the behaviour of
commands can differ between versions too.
Cygwin is consistent, but not complete.

I now understand why Henrik hasn't produced a Windoze client yet.

Cheers
    Vernon


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-----Original Message-----
From: lars ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] 
Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 4:36 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows

Hi,

but this means that you have to have Cygwin installed. (?) I have taht
but not the resource kit.

Regards
Lars

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon Everett" <v.everett at afgonline.com.au>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:22 AM
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows


Hi Henrik

Not sure how I forgot this one, but sc will tell you all about services.


Cheers
   V


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-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Everett [mailto:v.everett at afgonline.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 4:14 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows

Hi Henrik

Adding the -W to the ps command includes Windoze as well as Cygwin
processes. I should have used that in my script.
Also, we can monitor swap with the free command. I should have put that
in too.

Monitoring services from command line is possible, but only with the
resource kit.
There is a command called sclist which does it.

As for the client modules - Hmmmm, that's C code. I will leave it to
those that know better. :-) The sum total of my C knowledge doesn't
extend very far beyond "Hello world".

Cheers
   Vernon


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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 3:21 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows

(Note: I changed the subject)

Hi Vernon,

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:01:41PM +0800, Vernon Everett wrote:

> Hobbit client runs on Windoze. (Disclaimer applies - see below)
> :-)
>
> After a little bit of playing around, I managed to compile the client
> in Windows, and it works.

[snip story of porting the client to Windows with Cygwin]

> It's far from perfect but I think it's a good starting point, and
> there will hopefully be no need for multiple code versions for
> different platforms.

It's a neat hack, and it does give you the basic functionality. But:
There are some severe limitations to this approach. Cygwin's "ps" output
for instance only includes the processes that have been started from a
Cygwin prompt - not the system processes you'd probably want to check.
And monitoring Windows services is not possible, I believe.

> Right now it's doing its thing, and sending data back to the server (I
> think) but the server is not displaying any results other than conn.
> How can I check what's being received by the server, and what's being
> done with it?

It probably isn't doing anything with the data. The client data is
handled by the hobbitd_client module, which needs to learn how to
interpret data from this unknown OS called "windows". If you look at the
hobbitd/client/ directory in the Hobbit sources, you'll see there are a
bunch of files - one per OS - with code to handle the particular report
sent by each OS. Something must be added to deal with the report from
your Windows client.


Regards,
Henrik


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