[hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:43:55PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote:
> The trap.pl uses hobbitboard to find all the hosts that have the 
> "trap" test defined.

Bad idea - there's a chicken-and-egg problem here.

Columns do not appear in the hobbitdboard output until they exist,
i.e. a status has been reported to Hobbit. So if *something* must 
report a "trap" status to Hobbit before the trap.pl script sees 
that it should do the "trap" thing ... well, I guess you can tell
where I'm going.

Scripts that implement custom tests should use the "bbhostgrep"
utility to scan the bb-hosts file for the hosts that have a
specific tag defined.

There is actually another way it can be done, but it's not yet
documented: You can send a "hostinfo" command to hobbitd, and it
will return a pre-parsed version of the bb-hosts file - one line
per hosts, with the fields delimited by '|' characters, eg:
mail.hswn.dk|172.16.10.2|NET:intern|COMMENT:Internal mail server|smtp|pop3|imap


Regards,
Henrik