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Access to Xymon data via library functions?

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list Martin Ward · Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:43:35 +0100 ·
Henrik/All,

I have spent the last few days writing a Perl script that reads through the /hostdata/ files, extracts interface information for each server that I monitor and writes/updates a MySQL database.

I now want to extract other information from the same file which brings up the question: Is there any sort of library of functions that I could compile into a C program to make access to this data any easier?

I have had a poke through the sources for Xymon 4.2.2 but can't find what I need 8-(

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list Buchan Milne · Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:52:27 +0200 ·
▸ quoted from Martin Ward
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:43:35 Ward, Martin wrote:
Henrik/All,
I have spent the last few days writing a Perl script that reads through the
/hostdata/ files, extracts interface information for each server that I
monitor and writes/updates a MySQL database. I now want to extract other
information from the same file which brings up the question: Is there any
sort of library of functions that I could compile into a C program to make
access to this data any easier? I have had a poke through the sources for
Xymon 4.2.2 but can't find what I need 8-(
Actually, I was thinking about this, as it would be useful to be able to access some configuration information in (e.g.) perl. Ideally, if there were a shared library for Hobbit/Xymon that included the functions for reading configuration, events, data, it could be exposed to scripting languages as well.

Regards,
Buchan
list Dan McDonald · Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:28:15 -0500 ·
▸ quoted from Buchan Milne
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 12:52 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:43:35 Ward, Martin wrote:
Henrik/All,
I have spent the last few days writing a Perl script that reads through the
/hostdata/ files, extracts interface information for each server that I
monitor and writes/updates a MySQL database. I now want to extract other
information from the same file which brings up the question: Is there any
sort of library of functions that I could compile into a C program to make
access to this data any easier? I have had a poke through the sources for
Xymon 4.2.2 but can't find what I need 8-(
Actually, I was thinking about this, as it would be useful to be able to access some configuration information in (e.g.) perl. Ideally, if there were a shared library for Hobbit/Xymon that included the functions for reading configuration, events, data, it could be exposed to scripting languages as well.
bb localhost "hobbitdxboard..." ??


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list Harald Husemann · Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:56:56 +0200 · 
Hi,

for Perl, there is a library called "Hobbit_fd_lib". I found it along with dbcheck.pl, which we use for database checking - I don't know if it's only a part of dbcheck, or a stand-alone lib. Nevertheless, it seems to be useful (although I never used it in my own scripts, since these were all ported from old-style BB).
Another possible solution could be bbhostshow or bbhostgrep, or the already mentioned hobbit dashboard.

Btw.: Nice idea to have the hobbit config in a database, I've also thought about this...

hh
▸ quoted from Dan McDonald

McDonald, Dan schrieb:
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 12:52 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:43:35 Ward, Martin wrote:
Henrik/All,
I have spent the last few days writing a Perl script that reads through the
/hostdata/ files, extracts interface information for each server that I
monitor and writes/updates a MySQL database. I now want to extract other
information from the same file which brings up the question: Is there any
sort of library of functions that I could compile into a C program to make
access to this data any easier? I have had a poke through the sources for
Xymon 4.2.2 but can't find what I need 8-(
Actually, I was thinking about this, as it would be useful to be able to access some configuration information in (e.g.) perl. Ideally, if there were a shared library for Hobbit/Xymon that included the functions for reading configuration, events, data, it could be exposed to scripting languages as well.
bb localhost "hobbitdxboard..." ??


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list Buchan Milne · Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:49:49 +0200 ·
▸ quoted from Harald Husemann
On Monday 30 March 2009 15:28:15 McDonald, Dan wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 12:52 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:43:35 Ward, Martin wrote:
Henrik/All,
I have spent the last few days writing a Perl script that reads through
the /hostdata/ files, extracts interface information for each server
that I monitor and writes/updates a MySQL database. I now want to
extract other information from the same file which brings up the
question: Is there any sort of library of functions that I could
compile into a C program to make access to this data any easier? I have
had a poke through the sources for Xymon 4.2.2 but can't find what I
need 8-(
Actually, I was thinking about this, as it would be useful to be able to
access some configuration information in (e.g.) perl. Ideally, if there
were a shared library for Hobbit/Xymon that included the functions for
reading configuration, events, data, it could be exposed to scripting
languages as well.
bb localhost "hobbitdxboard..." ??
But, I want:
1)Page layout information (without writing a separate parser which may not 
operate identically)
2)Thresholds
3)"Critical View" configuration
4)Client-local configuration for more client-side tests
list Ulric Eriksson · Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:10:22 +0200 (CEST) ·
▸ quoted from Buchan Milne

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Buchan Milne wrote:

But, I want:
1)Page layout information (without writing a separate parser which may not
operate identically)
2)Thresholds
3)"Critical View" configuration
4)Client-local configuration for more client-side tests
All of which could be added to the hobbit protocol.

Ulric