On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:42:19AM -0400, Haubrich,Myra [Ontario] wrote:

Thank you for your reply!

I've tried with

nc localhost 1984 < test.txt

Where test.txt contents: combo

status server1,xx,xx,xx,xx.cpu green Tue Jun 24 19:59:34 UTC 2008 up: 5 days, 2 users, 119 procs, load=17

LOAD AVG on server1,xx,xx,xx,xx is 17

status server1,xx,xx,xx,xx.disk green Tue Jun 24 19:59:34 UTC 2008 - Disk partitions on server1,xx,xx,xx,xx OK

/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 100790004 9644576 86025516 11% /home /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 5036316 44476 4736008 1% /tmp /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 101086 19502 76365 21% /boot /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 40670524 2182592 36421976 6% / /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 20161204 988424 18148640 6% /var

You have some new-line problems there. The layout of a combo message should be

combo<newline> status ........ <newline> <newline> status ......

So your first blank line between the "combo" and the "status" should not be there. Not sure if this is what causes the problem, though... It could also be that your "test.txt" file has DOS/Windows style line termination (carriage-return + newline), this would also cause problems.

Hobbit might be a bit more finicky about this than BB, but it was tested with the Big Brother "bb" client. And Hobbit does use combo messages internally, e.g. for all of the network test status messages (try running "bbcmd bbtest-net --no-update" and see the messages that get sent to the Hobbit server).

The data you're sending looks pretty much like a standard Unix client report. Any particular reason why you're not just using the normal Hobbit client and the "bb" utility to send the data ?

Regards, Henrik