On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Geoff Hallford <user-dc9e7f30b1e2@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Hi All,
I am hoping someone can help with this or provide a link to an explanation,
as I haven't been able to find the information in the archives or how-to's.
I have a server that I am monitoring Citrix licensing usage on. Currently I
am using a VBScript for this purpose that figures out the usage and then
emails me of >90% used and >95% used. It uses the telnet and
WshShell.SendKeys method to do this.
Key Item: The business doesn't want the BBWin agent on this server.
I want to be able to send the 'status' and 'data' to Hobbit and have
hobbit: alert on it, and graph it.
Can I do something as simple as a telnet session to the Hobbit server on
1984/tcp and send the info? What is the syntax for that and what commands
does it accept (i.e. to close the session)?
Dunno about telnet, but if the server has Perl you might be able to use
bb.pl from the deadcat.net BB site:
http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=155
It's a drop-in replacement for the bb command. There's also bbsend.exe:
http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=353
which is a compiled version of bb.pl.
I've used bb.pl in a couple of places, but not recently.
Ralph Mitchell