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Re: How to monitor Client ID in broker

 

If you really want to do this, why not put the client ID in the published message? However, scanning a message broker looking for client IDs does not sound like we have a secure broker.

Cheers
Mark

Typing quality varies as this message has been prepared on my iPad.

On 11/10/2012, at 6:00 AM, Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andy,
> 
> Andy is right, there's no way to do this in mosquitto specifically. If
> you really need to do this, you can recreate it using client
> behaviour: http://mqtt.org/wiki/doku.php/presence
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:34 PM, andypiperuk@xxxxxxxxx
> <andypiperuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Andy
>> 
>> Curious why you would specifically need to do this?
>> 
>> The idea of a publish-and-subscribe system is that publishers and
>> subscribers/consumers are not aware of one another.
>> 
>> I don't think there's a way to monitor specific client IDs with mosquitto
>> but I guess you could scrape the broker log to find out which clients are
>> connecting.
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:37 AM, andy zhang <andyzhang.h@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Is there anyone know how to monitor client connected with broker?
>>> If subscribe to $SYS/broker/clients/#, I can get the number of connected
>>> clients, but I don't know how to get more details information, such as
>>> client ID...
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Andy
>>> 
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