[hobbit] Status Question

[Mike Dingeldey]

Wow. Thanks Henrik!
>From what you and Richard have said, it looks like I'll be a bit busy.

I will let you know how this turns out - now all I need to do is find time
to implement it!  I have a feeling that this is only the tip of the 
iceberg.....



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Status Question


> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:21:34AM -0800, 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)?
>
> Before re-inventing the wheel, you may want to check out the BBMap
> utility available on the Big Brother add-ons site, http://deadcat.net/ .
> I believe it can do this for you. Even though it's on the Big Brother
> site, it should be compatible with Hobbit (it was originally written for
> the bbgen toolkit, which over time evolved into Hobbit).
>
>
>> 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.
>
> There are several commands you can send to the Hobbit daemon to retrieve
> the current value of one or more statuses.
>
>   bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard"
> retrieves the list of all statuses. You can add a filter and a set of
> fields you want to retrieve, e.g. to get the hostnames of all "http" tests 
> that
> are red you can do
>   bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=http color=red fields=hostname"
>
>
> Another command is
>   bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog host=HOSTNAME test=TESTNAME"
> retrieves the full status message of a single test.
>
> If convenient, there are also "hobbitdxboard" and "hobbitdxlog" commands
> that return this in an XML format.
>
>
> Finally, there's a "query" command:
>   bb 127.0.0.1 "query HOSTNAME.TESTNAME"
> This returns the first line of the status, with the color as the first
> word.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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