I would really love to be able to remotely query a server running traveler and parse out some statistics to display in a dashboard. Using Visual Basic and COM, I can easily send a remote console command such as:
This works great for commands such as “show tasks” but it doesn’t work for Traveler commands such as “tell traveler showactive” which only return “command has been executed on the server. Use ‘live’ console opion, in future, to view response from server.”
Is there any way to do this other than via the console or can this be added in the future? I really don’t want to send the command, then parse the log file.
I don’t think Traveler is doing anything special for the tell commands. I thought this was just how the tell commands all worked with that remote call. But maybe that area needs further investigation.
Can you tell me if any other (non-traveler) tell commands return data? Or is it just the “show” commands that are returning data?
Given that the show commands might work, you could potentially run “show stat” and get output from that. There are plenty of Traveler stats in the Domino stat repository that you could look through that might do what you need.
show stat traveler.* will show all the Traveler stats.
Subject: SendConsoleCommand returns real results for Show commands, but not Tell commands
I had some time to dig into this further. I tried tell commands for router, http, and traveler, and they all return the message about using live console. Thus, I believe that tell commands will not return the output to you. Show commands are different, so that is why they appear to work.
This appears to be a Domino tell command design issue not related to Traveler. Traveler uses the tell command like any process, but we don’t control the SendConsoleCommand output handling.