---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Director Control Protocol To: Tim Gustafson <t...@soe.ucsc.edu>
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Tim Gustafson <t...@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote: >> Can't you spawn bconsole from the web application? That is what most >> of the other web apps do. > > I thought of that, but the interaction to get a simple bit of data out that > way seems to be rather difficult to parse. Â Consider getting the status of a > given client: > > 1. Connect to the bacula-dir server via SSH > 2. Run bconsole > 3. Wait for a prompt > 4. Enter "status" > 5. Wait for a prompt > 6. Enter "3" > 7. Parse the list of client presented and figure out which option represents > the client you want > 8. Enter the number you parsed from step 7 > 9. Parse the output of that command into a program-usable form > > I'm hoping that there might be a protocol that cuts out all the screen > parsing and instead lets me just do something like: > > 1. Connect to the bacula-dir daemon > 2. Authenticate > 3. Send a command like "show status client blah.foo.bar-fd" What about echo "show status client=ClientName" | bconsole jmd0 ~ # echo "show status client=jmd0" | bconsole Connecting to Director jmd0:9101 1000 OK: jmd0-dir Version: 5.1.14 (24 February 2011) Enter a period to cancel a command. show status client=jmd0 Resource status not found You have messages. John -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
