[hobbit] Hobbit Status and Data Question

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am hoping someone can help with this or provide a link to an explanation,
> as I haven't been able to find the information in the archives or how-to's.
>
> I have a server that I am monitoring Citrix licensing usage on. Currently I
> am using a VBScript for this purpose that figures out the usage and then
> emails me of >90% used and >95% used. It uses the telnet and
> WshShell.SendKeys method to do this.
>
> Key Item: The business doesn't want the BBWin agent on this server.
>
> I want to be able to send the 'status' and 'data' to Hobbit and have
> hobbit: alert on it, and graph it.
>
> Can I do something as simple as a telnet session to the Hobbit server on
> 1984/tcp and send the info? What is the syntax for that and what commands
> does it accept (i.e. to close the session)?
>
>
Dunno about telnet, but if the server has Perl you might be able to use
bb.pl from the deadcat.net BB site:

   http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=155

It's a drop-in replacement for the bb command.  There's also bbsend.exe:

   http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=353

which is a compiled version of bb.pl.

I've used bb.pl in a couple of places, but not recently.

Ralph Mitchell
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