On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:37:15PM -0500, James B Horwath wrote:
I am converting my BB 19.c system to Hobbit 4.1.2p1. With BB I used to use ssh to fetch data from remote servers in a DMZ (using the bb-fetchtab). Can I do this in Hobbit. I have searched the mail archive and manuals and didn't see the option anywhere.
I haven't done this, but off the top of my head it could be done like this: 1) Install the Hobbit client on the servers you monitor. Near the bottom of the clients' ~hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh you'll see this bit of code: if test "$LOCALMODE" = "yes"; then echo "@@" >> $TEMPFILE $BBHOME/bin/hobbitd_client --local --config=$BBHOME/etc/localclient.cfg <$TEMPFILE else $BB $BBDISP "@" < $TEMPFILE fi Which is what takes care of sending the client status to Hobbit. Just comment out those lines, or delete them ... this will simply make the client put the status message in client/tmp/msg.txt . 2) On the Hobbit server, run a script to fetch the client status files. You can run it as a Hobbit server extension script (add it to hobbitlaunch.cfg); it would go something like this: bbhostgrep fetchdata | \ while read L; do set $L IP=$1 HOSTNAME=$2 LOGFILE=$BBTMP/clientmsg-$HOSTNAME.txt # Delete the old statusfile and get the new one rm -f $MSGFILE scp hobbit@$HOSTNAME:client/tmp/msg.txt $MSGFILE if test -f $MSGFILE; then # Got a statusfile, send it to Hobbit $BB $BBDISP "@" < $MSGFILE fi done This uses the bbhostgrep command to pick out those hosts that have a "fetchdata" in their bb-hosts entry. It then scp's the client status file over to the Hobbit server, and runs the normal "bb" command to feed the client status report into the Hobbit server. You will of course need to arrange for ssh to login to each of the clients without requiring a password, but you probably already did that with bb-fetch. This is a rough solution. It doesn't deal with scp taking a loooooong time to login or timeout if your client is down; it doesn't delete the client-side status message, so if you client stops running you won't notice it going purple. But it should give you an idea of how it can be done, and it would work for the common case. Regards, Henrik