[hobbit] Hobbit Status and Data Question

[Geoff Hallford]

Thanks for that. I can't put Active Perl on the system either but the
bbsend.exe works good for basic status. A problem I have run into though, is
that it does not seem to accept multi-line input like bb.pl does. Does
anyone know how to do this for CMD?

I tried "type input.txt | bbsend.exe" and command runs fine but the hobbit
status page doesn't show the data.

The normal command works fine "bbsend "10.10.10.10 TEST-PC.citrix-license
red License is at 96% in use" ... the rub is that I have 2 licenses and I
want to display them on 2 different lines in Hobbit status column but can't.

This would be simple on *nix but Windows is giving me a hard time.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.


'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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