[hobbit] force client checks from server ?

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 16:09, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:23:06PM +0200, Stephane Caminade wrote:
> > I was wondering if there is a possibility to force some kind of client
> > refresh from the hobbit server.
>
> No. The Hobbit server has no way of contacting the client to ask for a
> refresh.
>
>
> If you can login to the client host, then restarting the Hobbit client
> will result in an immediate update of the client data.
>
>
> For network tests, you can login as the hobbit user on the server
> running your network tests, and then run
>
>    bbcmd bbtest-net HOSTNAME
>
> to force a refresh of the network test status for this particular host.

It would be useful if this feature was available from the web interface (users 
used to Nagios have asked me about this).

Regards,
Buchan

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