On Monday, 6 September 2010 11:59:32 Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Friday, 3 September 2010 00:49:30 Jason Kincl wrote:
Hello!
I am wondering if using netcat instead of bb to send status updates to
a xymon server is a bad idea?
What prevents you from using bb?
In the cases where I can't install bb, I can't have netcat either, so I
use perl.
Sometimes, all you have is busybox and then nc is alot more likely to be
around than perl :)
Also, perl is a hige memory hog and slow (due to disk access) compared to
doing everything inside busybox sh - to I avoid perl on embedded systems
or other systems with limited memory resources.
But, bb should compile on most embedded distros, and should be relatively small (depending on the c library being used).
In cases where you just want to monitor the device, snmp is another option. However, I was interested in building xymon on OpenWRT to be able to use it for remote network testing, for which nc won't do ...
The other option is to add a bb subcommand to busybox, which should be relatively easy.
Regards,
Buchan