[hobbit] pulling data via hobbitdxboard

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 18:18, Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) 
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been tasked with working a client app for users. Currently it is
> basically a yahoo widget that feeds off the bbgen nstab page. We monitor
> alot of sevices, and from that we have configured a good number of
> Alternate PageSets. basically providing a focused Hobbit/BBGen display
> for each group.
>
> Now those groups can run a yahoo widget that parses the nstab.html for
> all Critical alerts. And that seems to be working rather well. But this
> got me to thinking. There is alot more data contained in the
> hobbitdxboard output, that is much easier to use. Plus by using the
> hobbitdxboard, users/groups can customize their query much more.
>
> So basic questions I have:
> 1. is there a way to get to the hobbitdxboard data, other than using the
> bb command ? Would be great if there was a web cgi for this.  If there
> isn't I am sure I can whip up something using perl.
>
> 2. The question of load, should it be a concern ? I know all of the
> hobbit data is stored in memory, so I didn't think this would be a
> problem. Also I was thinking, that if I write a perl cgi, I could cache
> the output of the query for 1 minute or so.  Since normal client update
> period is 5 minutes...  caching the hobbitdxboard output for a minute
> could save on any load.
>
> Thoughts ?


After reading Henrik's mail on the architecture, specifically:

> But it should be possible for an adventurous
> programmer to use the core Hobbit daemons with their own web front-end
> tools and come up with a completely different user-interface.

I wondered about writing a frontend in Catalyst 
(http://www.catalystframework.org/).

A Hobbit model plugin might be an idea ...

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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