[Spacewalk-list] Retrieve uptime via the API

[Luis Garcia]

Just updated my spacewalk install to 0.6, tested the system.getDetails
call, and sure enough, I got the last_boot back as a DateTime.  Works
great.

Thanks!

~Luis


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Justin Sherrill<jsherril at redhat.com> wrote:
> Luis Garcia wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hey Luis,
>
> Just checked in the code for this:
>
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spacewalk.git/?p=spacewalk.git;a=commit;h=2bc9f8a0024f8d4f9cdd7595e9f19f6502a09eae
>
> Should be in spacewalk 0.6
>
> Cheers!
> -Justin
>
>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>
>>> 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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