[hobbit] File status information in client-data

[Kern, Thomas]

I will take a look at the logfetch.c to check on what it writes into the
client-data stream. 

If the hobbit server receives a complete client-data stream with file:
status information and a separate status message for machinename.files,
which one gets used for creating the files webpage? 

/Thomas Kern
/301-903-2211 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:30 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] File status information in client-data
> 
> You should take a look at the printfiledata() routine in
> client/logfetch.c - this is where those [file:/foo/bar.baz] data are
> generated.
> 
> However, that is only part of the picture. What you want to 
> do is really
> to build a more-or-less complete Hobbit client message. This 
> begins with
> a line that identifies the OS the message is from (see the
> ~client/tmp/msg.HOSTNAME.txt file on any Hobbit client); this in turn
> determines how the data are processed by hobbitd_client. The 
> catch here
> is that if your OS name is not recognized, then no processing 
> is done -
> even though part of the message might be formatted just like 
> another OS.
> 
> So to get your data recognized by Hobbit, you must add the OS to those
> recognized, and write a back-end module for hobbitd_client 
> that picks up
> those parts of the client message you want to process and sends them
> through Hobbit's built-in routines that match the data against the
> hobbit-clients.cfg configuration settings. It's not a whole 
> lot of code;
> you can copy one of the existing files in the hobbitd/client/ 
> directory,
> and use it more or less unchanged for your OS. Then a couple of lines
> must be added in hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c to call your new OS module,
> and in lib/misc.c to recognize the OS name. I'll be happy to help you
> with those bits if you need assistance.