Greetings,
We are looking at migrating from BB to Hobbit. One major stumbling block right now is that we have over 400 devices on the network right now that we monitor via SNMP. Firewalls, Routers, proxies, etc.
Our basic script in BB was under the ext folder on the server and was run every 5 minutes when bbtest-net ran. An instance of this script was called for each device we needed checked. It pulled the IP address of the device from the environment variables and called the bb executable with it's result when the test was completed. This doesn't seem to be possible in hobbit. Every reference I've seen in the archives has told people to use hobbitlaunch.
Unless I'm misunderstanding things (which is possible...), I can tell hobbitlaunch to fire off my external script every 5 minutes, but the script will only run that one time, meaning I'd have to modify my script to run a loop through all of the devices that I want the test run for. This is not really the way we want to go, because then it ignores the hosts that are planned down for maintenance and such.
What I'd like to do is add a service tag in the bbhost file called router_test. Then, when the network tests are run, hobbit should be smart enough to know that there is an external script defined in hobbitlaunch.cfg that matches that tag and run it for that machine. Is this possible?
Little help for a newbie to Hobbit?
Stewart