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Re: The cf_lastseen.db file
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Mark . Burgess |
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Re: The cf_lastseen.db file |
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Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:58:09 +0200 (MEST) |
On 9 Jun, Chip Seraphine wrote:
> Cool! FriendStatus() looks like exactly what I want, but I can't find an
> example of it in use.
I have not yet had time to make a faq page
>
> The Reference says that it "displays a message if hosts that normally have a
> cfengine protocol connection with the current host have not connected for
> more than than specified number of hours", which is perfect.
>
> I do have a couple of questions on it, though: First, how does it
> determines
> that a host "normally" has a connection? Should I be somehow providing it
> with a list? Does it start watching for a given host after the first time it
> sees it connect?
>
It learns the expected connection interval - machine learning
> Secondly, how can I get the name of the host that generates the alert? I am
> assuming that my alert will simply contain the alert string, as per usual,
> which will alert me to the fact that *something* is late, but not exactly
> who.
>
The alert has the form
cf:nexus: Host vorlon.iu.hio.no (answered us) last at Fri May 21 14:49:05 2004
i.e. not seen for 473.11 hours
(Expected <delta_t> = 325543123.50 secs (= 90428.65 hours))
cf:nexus: Host vorlon.iu.hio.no (hailed us) last at Thu Jun 10 07:31:03 2004
i.e. not seen for 0.41 hours
(Expected <delta_t> = 32.58 secs (= 0.01 hours))
You wll only see it in verbose mode unless it exceeds the aler value
you give. I am still in the process of fine tuning is behaviour -- hence
incomplete docs. The examples above do not generate alters normally.
> Forgive me for firing of questions to the list right away, but the nature of
> this animal seems to make exploratory testing somewhat tricky. You mentioned
> something about an advanced tutorial that might cover FriendStatus in a post
> last April (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-cfengine/2004-04/
> msg00110.html), but I couldn't find it....
>
Yes - if there is to be an advanced cfengine workshop at LISA, it will
be included.
M
> On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:16, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
>>
>> To extract data you can use the FriendStatus() function in cfengine.
>> To write your own stuff, you need to use the lastseen struct
>> in cf.defs.h. Look at the code in ip.c for the friendstatus
>> function and just copy it. berkeley does not have schema - just
>> raw data.
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 9 Jun, Chip Seraphine wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm in a situation where it would be very useful to get cruncheable data
> out
>> > of cf_lastseen.db, but I am rather Berkeley ignorant. Any good tricks/
> tools
>> > out there for doing this? Is there a schema or something I should be
>> > looking at?
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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