[hobbit] Appending tests to client data

[Rich Smrcina]

Jason,

The 'data' command is only for sending a graphing point to Hobbit which 
will appear on a predefined graph on the trends page.

If you want to send a message that appears as a new icon, send a status 
message.

Jones, Jason (Altrincham) wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I asked this question before but got a mixed response.  If I wanted to
> add an additional test to the client data received by hobbit from a
> client machine with the intention of writing a server side module to
> produce a status message (the way the core hobbit tests do) how would I
> go about sending the data from the client to the server?
> 
> I have looked at the man pages for bb and I think it's the data "stream"
> i.e:
> 
> $BBHOME/bin/bb <Server IP> "data foo,bar,com.test\n This is a test"
> 
> But after running this nothing appears on the server - have I
> misunderstood? If not where is this "data" message being stored on the
> server?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason.
> 
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