Wow. Thanks Henrik!
From what you and Richard have said, it looks like I'll be a bit busy.
I will let you know how this turns out - now all I need to do is find time to implement it! I have a feeling that this is only the tip of the iceberg.....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] Status Question
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:21:34AM -0800, Michael Dingeldey wrote:
Is there any way to query hobbit directly via an external script (separate from hobbit) so that I can get the current status of a device and display the status dot on a floor plan (or in this case, a hand-crafted web page with our floor plans as jpegs)?
Before re-inventing the wheel, you may want to check out the BBMap utility available on the Big Brother add-ons site, http://deadcat.net/ . I believe it can do this for you. Even though it's on the Big Brother site, it should be compatible with Hobbit (it was originally written for the bbgen toolkit, which over time evolved into Hobbit).
What would I query? The reason I ask is that there is other information that I might want to monitor besides the connectivity status of the device.
There are several commands you can send to the Hobbit daemon to retrieve the current value of one or more statuses.
bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard" retrieves the list of all statuses. You can add a filter and a set of fields you want to retrieve, e.g. to get the hostnames of all "http" tests that are red you can do bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=http color=red fields=hostname"
Another command is bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog host=HOSTNAME test=TESTNAME" retrieves the full status message of a single test.
If convenient, there are also "hobbitdxboard" and "hobbitdxlog" commands that return this in an XML format.
Finally, there's a "query" command: bb 127.0.0.1 "query HOSTNAME.TESTNAME" This returns the first line of the status, with the color as the first word.
Regards, Henrik
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