Thanks for the info.
I can think of a myriad of reasons why clients aren¹t allowed on remote
nodes, but in the case that spawned hobcen, it was because the boss said no.
I wrote the hobcen script in early 06 and the p-threaded app came along in
mid 06. I was a busy IT Manager back then so it was a get it done and move
on kinda thing. I just checked and it is still in production at this time.
After 20 years, I gave up on politics so I could hold onto my technical
skills. As it turns out, a 40 hour work week is pretty dang nice. So I
thought I would drop the group a note and see what kind of interest there
is. Nothing has been submitted as yet.
Cheers,
Tim
On 1/25/08 3:35 PM, "Charles Jones" <user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Tim Rotunda wrote:
I have not looked at the option you note, however, there are times where
deploying clients is not an option. I suspect that is why bb-central was
born and why I developed hobcen. Like I said, it started as a shell script,
morphed into a C application and then a POSIX-threaded C application. This
was all based on shared ssh keys, but after coming from a stint in a DC with
60,000+ nodes on 3 acres of raised floor, I learned very quickly how to use
ssh pw auth for batch communications that is fast. :-)
We all have issues to resolve and like UNIX, there are 10 different ways to
solve any one of them.
The pulldata option was added some time ago. You use the keyword in bb-hosts
for the hosts you want to pull client data from instead of waiting for a push:
---man page snippet---
pulldata[=[IP][:port]]
This option is recognized by the hobbitfetch(8) utility, and
causes it to poll the host
for client data. The optional IP-address and port-number can be
used if the client-side
msgcache(8) daemon is listening on a non-standard IP-address or
port-number.
As noted it also requires activating the "msgcache" option in the clients
clientlaunch.cfg. Basically what happens is the client reports the
client-data to "itself", a buffer of sorts, which the Hobbit client then comes
along and grabs.
You may find it useful except in the cases you mention where the installation
of a client is not possible at all, although I'm not sure why you would be
able to run all the commands that the normal client runs, but yet not able to
run the normal client?
This is the first I have heard of hobcen...It sounds like it could be useful
for some folks until Henrik provides a better solution. Have you submitted it
to TheShire?
-Charles
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