[Spacewalk-list] Retrieve uptime via the API

[Luis Garcia]

Cool. Thanks for getting that added.  For now, I used python to call
ssh and ran the results through awk. Nothing fancy, and no doubt
error-prone, but it got the job done.  Grabbing  the info directly
from a spacewalk will be much more convenient.


On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez<jmrodri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Justin Sherrill<jsherril at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Brandon Galbraith wrote:
>>> Luis,
>>>
>>> If someone responds offlist, or you find out, could you let me know? I'm
>>> looking for a solution to this as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -brandon
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Luis Garcia <luis.garciavega at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:luis.garciavega at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hiya Spacewalkers,
>>>
>>>     Is there a way, via the api, to retrieve the uptime of a particular
>>>     system?  I've searched the system,  system.config, system.custominfo
>>>     and system.search documentation,  but I wasn't able to find anything.
>>>
>>>     I don't need a fancy date or anything. just the numbers of days up
>>>     would work.
>>>
>>>     Reading the comments on the backend/server/handlers/xmlrpc/queue.py
>>>     file, it seems like the system sends the uptime to the spacewalk
>>>     server, and then the server calculates the actual date and time of the
>>>     last reboot.
>>>
>>>     Any Ideas?
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>     ~Luis
>>>
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>>
>> Looking through the spacewalk api docs located here:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ApiDocs
>>
>> I don't see see that information listed.  I'll see if i can get it into
>> the 0.6 api additions though.  We'd probably just add something like
>> 'last_boot' to the system.getDetails()  call.
>>
>> I went ahead and added that work task to this list (search for last_boot):
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ApiAdditions
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> -Justin
>>
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>> Red Hat, Inc.
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>
> In the meantime you might be able to run a script on the server that
> calls uptime or something like that
> with the system.scheduleScriptRun command.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/documentation/api/0.5/handlers/SystemHandler.html#scheduleScriptRun
>
> Then get results of the script passing in the id from the above function.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/documentation/api/0.5/handlers/SystemHandler.html#getScriptResults
>
> Not as elegant as a getDetails on the server, but could get you where
> you want to go.
>
> Sincerely,
> jesus
>
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