[Devmon] Enhancement Suggestion: DATA messages

[Alan S. <as...@do...>]

I've posted the following enhancement suggestion to the Devmon tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&atid=816980&aid=2805740&group_id=160720


Add a new "datamessage" template (optional) to test template support. 
The datamessage file would be handled identically to the "message" file
(same template filling behavior), except instead of being sent as a
STATUS message, it would be sent as a DATA message.

This facility would be excellent for posting performance data out of
band to the Hobbit server.  And rather than patching Hobbit to permit
graphing of Devmon data, it would be easy to use the --extra-script
capability of hobbit-rrd to route the data to a user-parsing script for
RRD updates.  It would permit sending a human-friendy STATUS message
(the "message" template file), as well as a more machine-parsable
version of data (the "datamessage" template file) through the DATA channel.


Hope this makes sense.  Appreciate any comments.  And thanks for listening!
-Alan