RE: [hobbit] Nagios client, Hobbit server anyone?

["Ward, Martin" <Martin.Ward (at) colt.net>]

>>I took a look at the weekend but came up against a wall trying to 
>>extract the relevant code from  bbproxy. I think the issue I was
having 
>>was that bbproxy is heavily written to merge multiple packets from
>> the client (combining) and send them on to the Hobbit server in one
go.
>>I just needed something that told
>> me what the format of a bbproxy data packet looked like and how to
send
>>it to the main server.
>
>I wouldn't mix bbproxy into this at all. Write a simpler tool to run
the
>Nagios plugin, extract the relevant data from the output, 
and generate Hobbit-style status-messages. Then send these the usual way
>(either invoke the "bb" utility to do it, or if you link your program
with
>the "libbbgen.a" library from Hobbit, then you can use Hobbit's
"sendmessage()"
>routine.

Sorry Henrik, I didn't explain myself very well (or at all for that
matter!).

I was looking at bbproxy's source to get some idea of how to proxy a
message from
 one machine through another to the Hobbit server, the original
intention being to
 strip your bbproxy code of everything that I didn't need and use what's
left (with
 acknowledgements to you as the original author). However having looked
at the
 bbproxy code I agree with you that doing so would be more difficult
than actually
 writing the whole program myself.

Instead I will look at Hobbit's sendmessage() routine as you suggest and
see if I can
 use that instead. It's really just the format of the packet when it
contains proxied
 data that I need to understand.

|\/|artin


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