[hobbit] hobbitdboard and hobbitdxboard: Confirmation on behavior.

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:10:01AM -0400, s_aiello at comcast.net wrote:
> Looking at the bb man page I see the following:
> > By default - if no CRITERIA is provided - it returns one line for all status 
> > messages that are found in Hobbit. You can filter the response by selecting 
> > a page, a host, a test or a color - wildcards are not supported, so you can
> > pick only one page, host, test or color.
> 
> But it seems I can do a query for multiple tests/color combinations
> > bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdxboard color=red,yellow,purple test=cpu|disk|memory"
> 
> color needs a coma to be used as a separator, and test needs a pipe. it seems 
> to work, I just wanted to confirm this behavior was suppose to be working in 
> this manner. I don't want to write scripts that have a foundation on a bug.

The man-page needs updating.

hostnames, testnames and "strings" in general use regex matching, which
is why you can use the pipe character to do matches.

The color values are discrete pre-defined values, so for historical reasons 
they are listed as a comma-separated string.

Your understanding is correct, I'll get the man-page in sync with reality.


Regards,
Henrik