OK, this probably isn't the ideal solution, but it seems to be working for me at the moment. I've only just started with Hobbit, so I'm sure there's a better way of doing this.
My remote system is running bb18b3, with bb-file.sh from bbfetch2.3.tar.gz replacing bin/bb so that tmp/BBSTAT is created instead of pushing local messages to a BB server. You probably already had that part working...
On my Hobbit server I copied bb-fetch.sh to server/ext. The only change necessary in bb-fetch.sh was
< . $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh # INCLUDE STANDARD DEFINITIONS
. $BBHOME/etc/hobbitserver.cfg # INCLUDE
STANDARD DEFINITIONS
Then in server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg, add:
[fetch] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD $BBHOME/ext/bb-fetch.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m
Hobbit seems to be happy fetching the remote BBSTAT file and receiving the extracted cpu, disk, msgs & procs data.
Unfortunately I don't have time right now to upgrade the remote client to Hobbit, so I don't know how (or if) bb-file.sh would work with it.
Ralph Mitchell
On 1/3/06, James B Horwath <JamesHorwath at glic.com> 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.
Regards, Jim
Jim Horwath SANS Certified: GCUX, GCIH, GCIA, GHTQ, GREM Unix Admin