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

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Monday 30 March 2009 15:28:15 McDonald, Dan wrote:
> 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..." ??

But, I want:
1)Page layout information (without writing a separate parser which may not 
operate identically)
2)Thresholds
3)"Critical View" configuration
4)Client-local configuration for more client-side tests