#4099 [HHQ-3924] Add agent ping CLI command

[Hyperic Team]

http://jira.hyperic.com/browse/HHQ-3924


AgentApi has a method to ping an agent. This new feature request is to expose this via the CLI. Currently the CLI's agent command only has one sub-command, list:

~/hyperic/hq-trunk/hqapi/build/hqapi1-3.2(master) $ ./bin/hqapi.sh agent list


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>


<AgentsResponse>


    <Status>Success</Status>


    <Agent id="10100" address="localhost" port="2144" version="4.3.0-EE" unidirectional="false"/>


</AgentsResponse>

The ping command would take one of two arguments:

./bin/hqapi.sh agent ping --address=localhost:2144


or


./bin/hqapi.sh agent ping --id=10100

Alternatively, we could allow the ping to also take the XML listing do to bulk pings.

Output from this command will be 1 result per line: (though this is up for debate)

Successfully pinged agent localhost:2144


or


Failure pinging agent localhost:2144