Henrik, I have bb-central loaded but I can't get it to .def file to build unless I manually run bb-central.sh. Now I have to comment out the call to bbnet, and insert a command I want to run between the quotes on the ssh line. Then it dumps the output from my ssh into bb-central.dat in the tmp dir.

So after jacking with this most of my day, I decided to just run bb with what looks like the data that the bb-xxxx.pl scripts are trying to send and viola, I get something. That seemed way to easy and tells me I need to be pulling metrics and feeding them using my own code. I am just not real clear on how I feed data into hobbit and get the graphing too. Where can I see details of the format for sending data into Hobbit. I used bb to send data into hobbit and it brought up a graph when I drilled into that metric, unlike sending it from my own code via the IP:PORT from a remote system.

Did that make any sense? Thanks for any help. Tim

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:13 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:46:32PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: [about BB-central]

I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can get it running.

Well, this one has me stumped.

Getting it to run was pretty easy, but it appears to be rather broken.

The main script bb-central.pl generates bb-central.sh, which has the commands needed to login to a remote system via ssh and retrieve data. The only problem is that it generates an ssh command that just logs in; then it sits there in an interactive session and does nothing.

As far as I can see, the perl-script should add the commands needed to collect the data, but it doesn't. I even tried setting it up to run under a BB client, and it gives me the same problem.

I think I'll post to the BB list and see if the author has some idea about what's going on.

Henrik

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