Informer

Running Informer will watch something, formulate messages about it, and report back somehow. It is useful for extremely simplified reporting on the status of a host system.

Informer is simple and extensible. New arbitrary watchers and reporters just need to be namespaced within the Watcher or Reporter module and respond to #report. See source for details.

Examples

Print the state of two processes, plus the current hostname and ip address for en1, to stdout

Informer.watch do
  process "ruby"
  process "irb", :handle => "Interactive Ruby"
  hostname "en1"
end

Report whether ssh-agent is running on the LCD screen of a Rackable Systems Roamer ILOM device

informer = Informer.new("lcd")
informer.watchers << Watcher::Process.new("ssh-agent", :handle => "SSH Keychain Agent")
informer.report

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Informer

Examples

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

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