On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:22:24PM -0500, Scheblein, Adam wrote:

I saw that the hobbit client reports back "who" information, and I was wondering what would have to be done to make it so that I could implement that reporting functionality server side.

Well, what would you like to do with it ?

Right now, the "who" output is used only to count the number of logged-on users, which is then fed into the "users" RRD (available in the "trends" column).

I haven't really thought much about what to do with the client data apart from feeding it into the cpu/disk/memory/... status columns. But the data is there, and can be used for whatever purpose you'd like.

Even if it is not coded yet, just point me in the right direction and I will come up with something (this way I don't feel like a slacker and actually contribute back to hobbit)

The simplest way of getting the client data is through the "bb" tool:

bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog localhost"

dumps the entire client message from the host "localhost" to stdout. This is split into sections, like

[uptime] 19:59:52 up 4 days, 12:28, 2 users, load average: 0.44, 0.22, 0.07 [df] Filsystem 1K-blokke Brugt Tilbage Brug% Monteret på /dev/hda2 99511580 3604200 95907380 4% / /dev/hda3 47856164 37241288 10614876 78% /work

If you only want the "who" section, then you can use

bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog localhost section=who"

If you need more info, let me know.

Regards, Henrik