[hobbit] Ports data from other platforms

[Rich Smrcina]

Thanks much for the info.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:30:43AM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
>> I want to be able to provide ports data to Hobbit from the mainframe 
>> operating systems.  They do not have and 'standard' Hobbit client nor do 
>> they present the equivalent of 'netstat' in the way that Linux does.
>>
>> I can reformat the 'netstat' into the Linux way, that's not a problem. 
>> What I would like to know is how to present this data to Hobbit so that 
>> it shows up properly in the ports column (with server based 
>> configuration and optional tracking capabilities).
>>
>> Is it as simple as sending the data as a 'ports' test or do I need to 
>> create a 'client' package and send it.  
> 
> You need to send data in the "client" format. Also, in order for your
> "client" message to be handled by the Hobbit server, there needs to be a
> backend processor on the Hobbit server that recognizes the OS reporting
> the data. All of these are currently embedded in the hobbitd_client
> binary; the source files for each OS are in the hobbitd/client/*.c
> files.
> 
> However, if your data is like some Unix/Linux data, then writing a
> client backend will be really simple. You can look at some of the
> existing backend modules; even with very little knowledge of C it should
> be easy to cut-paste-modify an existing module and make it work with
> your OS.  That, and a trivial change to hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c 
> to make it call your OS backend.
> 
>> If so, is the format the same as 
>> the 'client data' link with just that text data in the message?
> 
> Exactly. The "client data" text data is just a raw dump of the message
> that the clients send to the Hobbit server.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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