[hobbit] Status Question

[Richard Leyton]

Hi Mike,

If you want to query the status of a test/host, you need to use the  
'hobbitdboard' command to bb to pull back the status. There are a  
bunch of other operations that might be useful. See the bb(1) manpage.

An example (see below) I have is for a particular host ('reports'),  
we need to clear out the purples every week (as the 'service' is the  
name of the report, and these can vary). As I don't care beyond a day  
or two about old reports. So the first part does what you want -  
pulls back the status for the host. The second remainder just pulls  
out the bits I want and wraps it around to drop the host.

There's no security, server side, with hobbit, so this can be run by  
any user on any system, so long as the IP details are correct. Note  
I've two servers here. If you've just one server you can just specify  
the IP address on the command line.

Hope that helps or gives you something to start with.

Richard.

>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> export BBDISPLAYS="127.0.0.1 192.168.50.13"
>
> ~hobbit/client/bin/bb  0.0.0.0 "hobbitdboard host=reports"|grep  
> purple|awk -F\| '{print $2}'|xargs -i ~/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 'drop  
> reports {}'


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Richard Leyton - richard at leyton.org
http://www.leyton.org




On 10 Feb 2007, at 17:21, Michael Dingeldey wrote:

> Is there any way to query hobbit directly via an external script  
> (separate from hobbit) so that
> I can get the current status of a device and display the status dot  
> on a floor plan (or in this case, a hand-crafted web page with our  
> floor plans as  jpegs)? What would I query? The
> reason I ask is that there is other information that I might want  
> to monitor besides the connectivity status of the device.
>
> At this point I am looking for any suggestions as to the best way  
> for doing this. If possible,
> I would like to have this process separate from hobbit - but I  
> completely understand if I need
> to have the script run by hobbit.
>
> Has anyone done this, or should I not even consider this? Any and  
> all thoughts are welcome.
>
> TIA!
>
>
> Mike Dingeldey
>
> Like Jimmy says:  If we weren't all crazy, we'd all go insane....