> 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.  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"

and have that return machine-parse-able status information, rather than 
human-readable information.

Really, it's just a matter of cleaner code.  I -could- do it by running 
bconsole and using a send/expect type system, but it seems like there ought to 
be a "better" way.

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Baskin School of Engineering                                     831-459-5354
UC Santa Cruz                                         Baskin Engineering 317B
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