Hey Andrew,

I hacked something together real quick for you...it requires the Hobbit Admin Tools available at The Shire's Addons page (http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/addons). I need to look into the hobbitdxboard command to fully flesh it out. I may then add it to the tool kit since the original maintainer seems to have disappeared (or at least left/graduated from his university).

Just add the following script to the hobbit cgi-bin folder after adding the toolkit and make it executable:

admintools_xmlreport.sh:

#!/bin/sh

echo "content-type: text/xml" echo ""

Change to point to your hobbit server config file

HOBBIT_SERVER_CFG="/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" ADMINSCRIPTS_FUNCTIONS="/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/adminscripts_functions.sh"

this_usePerl="false" #if you have perl (Use it when you have Problems with date (e.g. on Solaris))

############################################# #Init Script ############################################# #Load Hobbit configuration . $HOBBIT_SERVER_CFG . $ADMINSCRIPTS_FUNCTIONS

#Use Requestparameters from GET or Post if [ "$REQUEST_METHOD" = POST ]; then read -n $CONTENT_LENGTH query else query="$QUERY_STRING" fi

this_cgiascii "$query" this_getQuery "$query" "host";HOST_S="$RETURN"

$BBHOME/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdxboard $HOST_S"

exit 0;

=G=

From: Andrew Martin [agmweb at ilovemaths.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:27 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] XML from Hobbit via url

Hi,

This is my first post. I have searched the archives and the web as much as possible but cant find anything so please point me in the right direction if this has been covered before.

I'm trying to obtain xml from Hobbit so I can integrate the results into other web based projects.

I can use the command

bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdxboard host=AServer"

within terminal to obtain the xml output below. This is suitable for the purposes I require.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?> <StatusBoard> <ServerStatus> <ServerName>AServer</ServerName> <Type>perf</Type> <Status>green</Status> <TestFlags></TestFlags> <LastChange>Wed May 21 08:41:07 2008</LastChange> <LogTime>Sat May 24 11:06:11 2008</LogTime> <ValidTime>Sat May 24 11:36:11 2008</ValidTime> <AckTime>N/A</AckTime> <DisableTime>N/A</DisableTime> <Sender>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</Sender> <Cookie>N/A</Cookie> <MessageSummary><![CDATA[status AServer.perf green Sat 24/05/2008 10:50:07]]></MessageSummary> </ServerStatus> </StatusBoard>

However, I'd like to obtain this output via a url.

For example,

http://<<hobbitserver>>/hobbit-cgi/bb-xmlreport.sh?HOST=AServer

would return the above xml. The host variable would of course need to be passed appropriately to hobbitdxboard.

I'm not sure of how to correctly write my bb-xmlreport.sh file, or if im going about this the correct way or not.

Any help much appreciated.

Andrew

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