/data/logs directory

Henrik,

If you have the bbstatus task enabled, does it write the values it
recieves to a file, and then the next time data arrives, overwrite the
info in the file, or does it append to the file?

I would like to capture some data that comes in every 1 or 2 seconds

Thanks,
Jeff

On 5/10/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:49:39PM -0000, Sigurður Bjarnason wrote:

In the old days when I was using the Big Brother monitoring server I
always got some files to the /data/logs directory.

That was the Big Brother way of storing data. Hobbit keeps all of the
current status logs in memory - unless you explicitly ask it to store
them on disk by running the hobbitd_filestore module.

Since I begun to use Hobbit I have never seen any files there....
Witch is causing me some trouble on custom made script I wrote when
using Big Brother, then I got files to this directory, example
file1 and file2 and I could compare the two, now ..I just get files to
/data/hist and histlogs with timestamp in the name and that files I cannot
use..!

Either enable the [bbstatus] task in your hobbitlaunch.cfg file - this
causes the data/logs/ directory to be updated with the current status
logs like BB; or change your script to fetch the status messages you
need.  I would recommend changing your script ...

To grab a status log from Hobbit, use the command
  bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog host=HOSTNAME test=COLUMNNAME"
The first line of the output is a summary line, after which comes the
raw status log.


Regards,
Henrik