Re: [hobbit] Access to Xymon data via library functions?

["McDonald, Dan" <Dan.McDonald (at) austinenergy.com>]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 12:52 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Monday 30 March 2009 08:43:35 Ward, Martin wrote:
> > Henrik/All,
> > I have spent the last few days writing a Perl script that reads through the
> > /hostdata/ files, extracts interface information for each server that I
> > monitor and writes/updates a MySQL database. I now want to extract other
> > information from the same file which brings up the question: Is there any
> > sort of library of functions that I could compile into a C program to make
> > access to this data any easier? I have had a poke through the sources for
> > Xymon 4.2.2 but can't find what I need 8-(
> 
> Actually, I was thinking about this, as it would be useful to be able to 
> access some configuration information in (e.g.) perl. Ideally, if there were a 
> shared library for Hobbit/Xymon that included the functions for reading 
> configuration, events, data, it could be exposed to scripting languages as 
> well.

bb localhost "hobbitdxboard..." ??


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