[hobbit] How to run an arbitary script on the client end?

[Charles Jones]

Heh, I'm guessing Henrik included some sort of sanitizing of the log 
directive so that you couldn't do things like that.

Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> Hmmm...  Didn't seem to like my first test attempt (see below).  
> Nothing showed up in my clientlog.
>  
> [skmsp01]
> file:/var/log/mail_statistics
> log:/var/adm/messages:10240
> log:`/tmp/dirMon.ksh 2>&1 >/tmp/dirMon.log; echo /tmp/dirMon.log`
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 08, 2007 3:13 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] How to run an arbitary script on the client end?
>
> Thanks.  Your suggestion triggered an idea on how to do this.  
> client-local.cfg supports backticks to run a program to generate a 
> logfile name dynamically.  So I'll try to make use of that and do 
> something like this (haven't tested it yet):
>  
> Add to client-local.cfg
> ================
>  
> log:`/path/to/the/program 2>&1 1>/path/to/the/logfile; echo 
> /path/to/the/logfile`
>  
> If this exact syntax won't work, it should be easy to use some similar 
> concept.  The built-in backtick processing of the log: directive being 
> the key point.
>  
> Thanks!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 08, 2007 2:49 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] How to run an arbitary script on the client end?
>
> As far as I know there is no built-in functionality to dynamically 
> execute remote scripts and get their output. Others may have better 
> suggestions, but one way of doing it, is you could set the client-side 
> script to be launched by the hobbit client every X minutes, (via 
> clientlaunch.cfg). I'm not sure of the best way to get the script 
> output back to the hobbit server though. I guess you could have the 
> script output to a logfile , and then have the hobbit server monitor 
> that log via the normal log monitoring mechanism
> .
> -Charles
>
> Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
>> Is there a way to confgure a client, via client-local.cfg or 
>> otherwise, to run some arbitrary command on the client and send it's 
>> stdout/stderr back to the hobbit server?  I have a few simple shell 
>> scripts that exist on some clients that it would be nice to invoke 
>> and then read their results on the server end using the 
>> "$BBHOME/bin/bb localhost clientlog..." method.  Similar to the way a 
>> "file:path_to_file" directive will collect a file's metadata?  I want 
>> something like "runprogram:path_to_program"
>>  
>> I am doing this currently using a server-side script that ssh'es to 
>> the client machine and runs what it needs.  I would rather have the 
>> normal Hobbit client collect the data output by the client-side 
>> program, upload that, and my server-side script would parse that 
>> resulting clientlog rather than going and collecting it's own data.  
>> If this is possible.
>>  
>> Thanks!
>

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