[hobbit] Hobbit client reporting question

[Scheblein, Adam]

Basically I want to fold in bb-who into hobbit where you can say if root is logged in then panic, if foo is logged in then warn, and then display that on the main page as well as just a general "who".  We wouldn't really need any graphing, just a server tweak -- but if I wanted it to happen at the same frequency as all the other tests where would it be put?

Thanks,
Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:01 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client reporting question

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:22:24PM -0500, Scheblein, Adam wrote:
> I saw that the hobbit client reports back "who" information, and I was
> wondering what would have to be done to make it so that I could
> implement that reporting functionality server side. 

Well, what would you like to do with it ?

Right now, the "who" output is used only to count the number of
logged-on users, which is then fed into the "users" RRD (available
in the "trends" column).

I haven't really thought much about what to do with the client data
apart from feeding it into the cpu/disk/memory/... status columns. 
But the data is there, and can be used for whatever purpose you'd
like.

> Even if it is not
> coded yet, just point me in the right direction and I will come up with
> something (this way I don't feel like a slacker and actually contribute
> back to hobbit)

The simplest way of getting the client data is through the "bb" tool:

   bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog localhost"

dumps the entire client message from the host "localhost" to stdout.
This is split into sections, like

   [uptime]
     19:59:52 up 4 days, 12:28,  2 users,  load average: 0.44, 0.22, 0.07
   [df]
    Filsystem            1K-blokke     Brugt   Tilbage Brug% Monteret på
    /dev/hda2             99511580   3604200  95907380   4% /
    /dev/hda3             47856164  37241288  10614876  78% /work

If you only want the "who" section, then you can use

   bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog localhost section=who"


If you need more info, let me know.


Regards,
Henrik


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