Tim Rotunda wrote:
The pulldata option was added some time ago. You use the keyword in bb-hosts for the hosts you want to pull client data from instead of waiting for a push:I have not looked at the option you note, however, there are times where deploying clients is not an option. I suspect that is why bb-central was born and why I developed hobcen. Like I said, it started as a shell script, morphed into a C application and then a POSIX-threaded C application. This was all based on shared ssh keys, but after coming from a stint in a DC with 60,000+ nodes on 3 acres of raised floor, I learned very quickly how to use ssh pw auth for batch communications that is fast. :-) We all have issues to resolve and like UNIX, there are 10 different ways to solve any one of them.
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pulldata[=[IP][:port]]
This option is recognized by the hobbitfetch(8)
utility, and causes it to poll the host
for client data. The optional IP-address and port-number
can be used if the client-side
msgcache(8) daemon is listening on a non-standard
IP-address or port-number.
As noted it also requires activating the "msgcache" option in the clients clientlaunch.cfg. Basically what happens is the client reports the client-data to "itself", a buffer of sorts, which the Hobbit client then comes along and grabs.
You may find it useful except in the cases you mention where the installation of a client is not possible at all, although I'm not sure why you would be able to run all the commands that the normal client runs, but yet not able to run the normal client?
This is the first I have heard of hobcen...It sounds like it could be useful for some folks until Henrik provides a better solution. Have you submitted it to TheShire?
-Charles