Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

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: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 4:41 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?


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

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