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)? 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.
At this point I am looking for any suggestions as to the best way for doing this. If possible, I would like to have this process separate from hobbit - but I completely understand if I need to have the script run by hobbit.
Has anyone done this, or should I not even consider this? Any and all thoughts are welcome.
TIA!
Mike Dingeldey
Like Jimmy says: If we weren't all crazy, we'd all go insane....
Hi Mike,
If you want to query the status of a test/host, you need to use the
'hobbitdboard' command to bb to pull back the status. There are a
bunch of other operations that might be useful. See the bb(1) manpage.
An example (see below) I have is for a particular host ('reports'),
we need to clear out the purples every week (as the 'service' is the
name of the report, and these can vary). As I don't care beyond a day
or two about old reports. So the first part does what you want -
pulls back the status for the host. The second remainder just pulls
out the bits I want and wraps it around to drop the host.
There's no security, server side, with hobbit, so this can be run by
any user on any system, so long as the IP details are correct. Note
I've two servers here. If you've just one server you can just specify
the IP address on the command line.
Hope that helps or gives you something to start with.
Richard.
#!/bin/bash
export BBDISPLAYS="127.0.0.1 192.168.50.13"
~hobbit/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 "hobbitdboard host=reports"|grep
purple|awk -F\| '{print $2}'|xargs -i ~/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 'drop
reports {}'
-- Richard Leyton - richard at leyton.org http://www.leyton.org
On 10 Feb 2007, at 17:21, 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)? 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.At this point I am looking for any suggestions as to the best way
for doing this. If possible, I would like to have this process separate from hobbit - but I
completely understand if I need to have the script run by hobbit.Has anyone done this, or should I not even consider this? Any and
all thoughts are welcome.TIA!
Mike Dingeldey
Like Jimmy says: If we weren't all crazy, we'd all go insane....
Thanks Richard. I'm still trying to determine what I *really* want to do. Thanks for the help with my random thought.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Leyton" <richard at leyton.org> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] Status Question
Hi Mike,
If you want to query the status of a test/host, you need to use the
'hobbitdboard' command to bb to pull back the status. There are a
bunch of other operations that might be useful. See the bb(1) manpage.An example (see below) I have is for a particular host ('reports'),
we need to clear out the purples every week (as the 'service' is the
name of the report, and these can vary). As I don't care beyond a day
or two about old reports. So the first part does what you want -
pulls back the status for the host. The second remainder just pulls
out the bits I want and wraps it around to drop the host.There's no security, server side, with hobbit, so this can be run by
any user on any system, so long as the IP details are correct. Note
I've two servers here. If you've just one server you can just specify
the IP address on the command line.Hope that helps or gives you something to start with.
Richard.
#!/bin/bash
export BBDISPLAYS="127.0.0.1 192.168.50.13"
~hobbit/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 "hobbitdboard host=reports"|grep
purple|awk -F\| '{print $2}'|xargs -i ~/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 'drop
reports {}'-- Richard Leyton - richard at leyton.org http://www.leyton.org
On 10 Feb 2007, at 17:21, 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)? 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.At this point I am looking for any suggestions as to the best way
for doing this. If possible, I would like to have this process separate from hobbit - but I
completely understand if I need to have the script run by hobbit.Has anyone done this, or should I not even consider this? Any and
all thoughts are welcome.TIA!
Mike Dingeldey
Like Jimmy says: If we weren't all crazy, we'd all go insane....
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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
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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