bb-services feature request(s)

1. It would be useful if you could use an EXEC keyword in bb-services, which would execute a shell script or program, which you could then parse the output. This could be easier than having a server-side external script in some cases, and could also be used to handle difficult to check services, so you don't have to use arcade methods like the one used to check oratns (see bb-services [oratns] entry) . It would be assumed that if EXEC is used, no port number needs to be defined.

For example:

[pgpool] exec '/usr/bin/psql -U postgres -h dbpool -c "show pool_status" template1' expect "replication_enabled | 1"

2. It would be nice if we could define multiple expect statements, and that it didn't matter where in the output the strings were. For example:

[pgpool] exec '/usr/bin/psql -U postgres -h dbpool -c "show pool_status" template1' expect "replication_enabled | 1" expect "server_status | master(192.168.0.200 on 5432) up secondary(192.168.0.201 on 5432) up |"

3. It would be handy if we could use regular expressions in expect strings.
4. It would be cool if you could use an option to either show only the lines that matched "expect", or highlight them (bold?) For example: [pgpool] exec '/usr/bin/psql -U postgres -h dbpool -c "show pool_status" template1' expect "replication_enabled | 1" expect "server_status | master(192.168.0.200 on 5432) up secondary(192.168.0.201 on 5432) up |" options banner,highlight or [pgpool] exec '/usr/bin/psql -U postgres -h dbpool -c "show pool_status" template1' expect "replication_enabled | 1" expect "server_status | master(192.168.0.200 on 5432) up secondary(192.168.0.201 on 5432) up |" options showmatch

Just some ideas :-)

-Charles