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Re: [hobbit] Adding custom LARRD graphs

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

and use the "bb" utility to send it off as a "data"
message to Hobbit. E.g. the following script runs your perl script,
stores the output in a temporary file, and uses the "bb" utility from
a Big Brother client installation to send this datafile to Hobbit
in a "data" message:

  #!/bin/sh

/foo/perlscript >/tmp/datafile
BBHOME=/usr/local/bbc
export BBHOME
. $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh

  $BB $BBDISP "data $MACHINE.orasync

  `cat /tmp/datafile`
  "

Now the fun bit starts. Hobbit will automatically pass data-messages
to all tasks monitoring the "data" channel.

Can you tell me the difference between using "data" and "status"? The reason I ask is because I looked at the hobbitd/larrd/do_bea.c (because it was the smallest one), and I notice in the comments that script that feeds it is using "status" instead of "data".

Thanks,
-Charles