[hobbit] Status Question

[Mike Dingeldey]

Thanks Richard. I'm still trying to determine what I *really* want to do.
Thanks for the help with my random thought.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Leyton" <richard at leyton.org>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Status Question


> Hi Mike,
> 
> If you want to query the status of a test/host, you need to use the  
> 'hobbitdboard' command to bb to pull back the status. There are a  
> bunch of other operations that might be useful. See the bb(1) manpage.
> 
> An example (see below) I have is for a particular host ('reports'),  
> we need to clear out the purples every week (as the 'service' is the  
> name of the report, and these can vary). As I don't care beyond a day  
> or two about old reports. So the first part does what you want -  
> pulls back the status for the host. The second remainder just pulls  
> out the bits I want and wraps it around to drop the host.
> 
> There's no security, server side, with hobbit, so this can be run by  
> any user on any system, so long as the IP details are correct. Note  
> I've two servers here. If you've just one server you can just specify  
> the IP address on the command line.
> 
> Hope that helps or gives you something to start with.
> 
> Richard.
> 
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> export BBDISPLAYS="127.0.0.1 192.168.50.13"
>>
>> ~hobbit/client/bin/bb  0.0.0.0 "hobbitdboard host=reports"|grep  
>> purple|awk -F\| '{print $2}'|xargs -i ~/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 'drop  
>> reports {}'
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Leyton - richard at leyton.org
> http://www.leyton.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10 Feb 2007, at 17:21, Michael Dingeldey wrote:
> 
>> Is there any way to query hobbit directly via an external script  
>> (separate from hobbit) so that
>> I can get the current status of a device and display the status dot  
>> on a floor plan (or in this case, a hand-crafted web page with our  
>> floor plans as  jpegs)? What would I query? The
>> reason I ask is that there is other information that I might want  
>> to monitor besides the connectivity status of the device.
>>
>> At this point I am looking for any suggestions as to the best way  
>> for doing this. If possible,
>> I would like to have this process separate from hobbit - but I  
>> completely understand if I need
>> to have the script run by hobbit.
>>
>> Has anyone done this, or should I not even consider this? Any and  
>> all thoughts are welcome.
>>
>> TIA!
>>
>>
>> Mike Dingeldey
>>
>> Like Jimmy says:  If we weren't all crazy, we'd all go insane....
> 
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