Sorry, my mistake. The part of trap.pl that uses hobbitboard is checking on the status of existing traps. The subroutine that sends the traps doesn't. Back to the drawing board.

Eric

-----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:41 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:43:55PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote:

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The trap.pl uses hobbitboard to find all the hosts that have the "trap" test defined.

Bad idea - there's a chicken-and-egg problem here.

Columns do not appear in the hobbitdboard output until they exist, i.e. a status has been reported to Hobbit. So if *something* must report a "trap" status to Hobbit before the trap.pl script sees that it should do the "trap" thing ... well, I guess you can tell where I'm going.

Scripts that implement custom tests should use the "bbhostgrep" utility to scan the bb-hosts file for the hosts that have a specific tag defined.

There is actually another way it can be done, but it's not yet documented: You can send a "hostinfo" command to hobbitd, and it will return a pre-parsed version of the bb-hosts file - one line per hosts, with the fields delimited by '|' characters, eg: mail.hswn.dk|172.16.10.2|NET:intern|COMMENT:Internal mail server|smtp|pop3|imap

Regards, Henrik

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