[hobbit] Multiple Views

Tom Callahan callahant at tessco.com
Wed Jun 22 22:07:02 CEST 2005


I've had similar occurrences with Windows machines. The message file
logging tends to generate red events all the time due to the lovely
services manager stuff.

I don't have a solution for you, but if you could give us an idea of
what exactly you are seeing that is triggering hobbit to go red, that
could help us to determine a way for you to set timeouts and the likes
for certain events.

Thanks,
Tom Callahan

Jeffcoat, Al wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I’ve got a question… And I apologize ahead of time if it’s been
> covered already.
>
> We have been running bb/hobbit for some time. First it was on UNIX
> only, because the windows admins didn’t like it. Then our execs saw
> it, and liked it. They then mandated that all systems will be
> monitored by hobbit.
>
> Here’s where the problem starts. Windows has been generating a lot of
> red events. The execs overreact to red events that are really not
> problems. We’ve tired to explain that just because something is red,
> doesn’t mean that a system is down. The windows admins are tuning it
> down as best as they can, but it still happens.
>
> So my thought was to have two hobbit’s, one that receives client data
> for our engineers to see and work with, and then another that just
> does the network tests, and this would be what our execs see. Both
> would be sitting on the same server, running in separate directories,
> and separate virtual servers. What I’m trying to get to is two views,
> an executive view, and a technical view.
>
> Has anyone done something like this? Is there a better way within
> hobbit itself?
>
> TIA
>
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