[hobbit] Where is the client data stored in hobbit server?

Ari Syrup arisyrup at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 01:31:07 CEST 2007


Henrik,

Thank you very much!! The information is really helpful for me not only to
implement the script but to understand the hobbit design.

I really look forward to the version 4.3.0 release. ( Hope all the regex
work fine !! ).




2007/10/10, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk>:
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:40:05PM +0900, Ari Syrup wrote:
> > I would like to implement a customized script to parse all the lines of
> the
> > "Client data" and send an alert if certain keyword matches. I think it
> would
> > be nice because you don't have to implement it in all the client
> > sides.....Definitely there are many people who are interested in it ???
> > And I can't figure out where the data is stored in the hobbit server
> side.
> >
> > My question is,,,,Where is the "Client data" stored in the hobbit server
> > side? Please help me with finding it...
>
> The client data are stored in memory.
>
> There are two ways you can do this.
>
> 1) You can use the command
>       bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog HOSTNAME"
>    to fetch the current client data, then do your processing.
>
> 2) (My recommended solution) Write your script as a Hobbit server-
>    side extension, and run it on the server as
>       bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=client YOURSCRIPT
>    Your script would get all of the client data fed on STDIN,
>    beginning with a line "@@client...|HOSTNAME|..." and
>    ending with "@@". Try running (as the hobbit user)
>       bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=client cat
>    and watch the data that is generated.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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