[hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

[Asif Iqbal]

On 7/16/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> 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



What's the syntax to send a "hostinfo" command to "hobbitd"?



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> Henrik
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