[hobbit] hobbitfetch replacement with ssh

[John G]

Here are some old messages on the topic that are similar to what you are doing.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/01/msg00045.html
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/01/msg00047.html

On 6/23/07, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> > Using bbcmd to run hobbitclient.sh was a good idea, but presented some
> > problems of it's own.  No problem getting it to set the environment
> > though.
> >
> > For one, invoking the client in this manner leaves lots of iostatcpu,
> > iostatdisk, and vmstat files laying around in the tmp directory.  I
> > guess it must be hobbitlaunch that cleans these up normally.
> >
> > Second, I could not trick logfetch into grabbing custom logfiles.  I
> > tried putting the appropriate entries in ..../tmp/logfetch.XXX.cfg on
> > the client end, but logfetch ignored these.  This file is normally
> > overwritten each time the client contacts the host, so normally you
> > wouldn't edit it.  But in my case the client is not connecting to the
> > host so I thought it might be "safe" to manually create this file, but
> > alas logfetch appears to ignore it.
> >
> > I may well run into this logfetch gotcha no matter how I invoke
> > hobbitclient.sh  If the client cannot talk to the Hobbit server, as in
> > my DMZ case, is it even possible to configure logfetch to grab custom
> > logfiles?  The logfetch config is normally downloaded from the server.
> > I don't see any way (yet) to configure it locally on the client.
> If "I" should have this problem, I will try this:
> change hobbit client.sh so it:
> - is not trying to contact the hobbit server (so the bb command is not used)
> - the message file is saved in a fixed file (so the pid is not appended to it)
> - the logfetch can still work if you update the input file manually
>
> make a daemon on the hobbit server:
> - that runs every minute
> - contacts the hobbit client with ssh and checks for a message file, if a
> message file is found, the content is send to the hobbit server and the file
> is deleted
>
> Or something like this ;)
>
>
> Stef
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