On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 16:12 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
Charles Jones wrote:
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
and use the "bb" utility to send it off as a "data"
message to Hobbit. E.g. the following script runs your perl script,
stores the output in a temporary file, and uses the "bb" utility from
a Big Brother client installation to send this datafile to Hobbit
in a "data" message:
#!/bin/sh
/foo/perlscript >/tmp/datafile
BBHOME=/usr/local/bbc
export BBHOME
. $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh
$BB $BBDISP "data $MACHINE.orasync
`cat /tmp/datafile`
"
Now the fun bit starts. Hobbit will automatically pass data-messages
to all tasks monitoring the "data" channel.
Can you tell me the difference between using "data" and "status"? The > reason I ask is because I looked at the hobbitd/larrd/do_bea.c > (because it was the smallest one), and I notice in the comments that > script that feeds it is using "status" instead of "data".
Thanks,
-Charles
Opps, scratch that....the do_bea.c is definitely not the smallest one, and I should have looked at the one you suggested :-) I would still like to know the difference between, and when one should use, data vs status though.
AFAIK, status is the result of a test, which should be
alarmed/displayed/etc, whereas data is not alarmed/displayed, just
handed off to something else to deal with it. (I think in BB it was just
appended to a file in bbvar/data/hostname....)
Regards,
Adam
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