[hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

[Jacobs, Eric (ThomasTech)]

Sorry, my mistake. The part of trap.pl that uses hobbitboard is checking on
the status of existing traps. The subroutine that sends the traps doesn't.
Back to the drawing board.

Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:41 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:43:55PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote:
> > The trap.pl uses hobbitboard to find all the hosts that have the 
> > "trap" test defined.
> 
> Bad idea - there's a chicken-and-egg problem here.
> 
> Columns do not appear in the hobbitdboard output until they exist,
> i.e. a status has been reported to Hobbit. So if *something* must 
> report a "trap" status to Hobbit before the trap.pl script sees 
> that it should do the "trap" thing ... well, I guess you can tell
> where I'm going.
> 
> Scripts that implement custom tests should use the "bbhostgrep"
> utility to scan the bb-hosts file for the hosts that have a
> specific tag defined.
> 
> There is actually another way it can be done, but it's not yet
> documented: You can send a "hostinfo" command to hobbitd, and it
> will return a pre-parsed version of the bb-hosts file - one line
> per hosts, with the fields delimited by '|' characters, eg:
> mail.hswn.dk|172.16.10.2|NET:intern|COMMENT:Internal mail 
> server|smtp|pop3|imap
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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