[hobbit] hobbitd_channel: enadis

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:16:42PM -0400, s_aiello at comcast.net wrote:
> > I am trying to monitor and process communication on the enadis channel. I
> > have been looking at messages comin in on this channel and see the
> > following:
> > @@enadis#6|1213126417.873757|127.0.0.1|HobbitServer|http|1213126657 @@
> >
> > Which looking at the code I see the fields are:
> > /* @@enadis|timestamp|sender|hostname|testname|expiretime */
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1. 1st field: comes in as enadis#1, enadis#2, enadis#3, etc. that #number
> > seems to get reset whenever the hobbit daemon is reset. Any extrnal
> > purpose for this incrementing # ?
>
> It's just a sequence number. Originally used to check for missing
> messages by the hobbitd_enadis (and other worker tasks), but not
> really useful.
>
> > 2. The timestamp field has EPOC.Other#. What is the Other# after the
> > period ?
>
> microseconds.
>
> > 3. expiretime, just looking for confirmation on possible values. EPOC for
> > expiration time, Zero for enabling, and -1 means Until Ok ?
>
> Right.
>
> > 4. Where is the blurbage about the maint,"Disabled by:" & "Reason" ?
>
> It isn't included in the "enadis" data. If memory serves me right, then
> the enadis channel is currently used only by the BB-compatibility module
> hobbitd_filestore, and the BB enable/disable marker files do not include
> the text - that's probably the reason for this.
>
> It could easily be changed to include that text as an extra field.
>

I accomplished my goal by listening in on the page channel and filtering on 
@@notify messages. Thank you for your feedback.

 ~Steve