[hobbit] Monitoring a laptop

[Rob MacGregor]

On 3/31/06, David Gilmore <david at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking of monitoring employee laptops, and maybe even desktops, with
> hobbit.  I added a group to my hosts file with the DIAL tag, created a line
> in the hosts file 0.0.0.0 mylaptop.mydomain.local # noping.  I then
> installed a client on the laptop and just set it to monitor the basics (CPU,
> Disk, Memory).  I then shut down the laptop and took it home.  Thirty
> minutes later I checked my hobbit pages from my home desktop and saw that
> the status of the client was set to purple.  I obviously misunderstood the
> functionality of the DIALUP tag.  Is it possible to monitor a device that
> would only check in a couple of times a day?  I know I could set specific
> alerts thresholds for the laptop, but was hoping there might be a
> "universal" solution.

Maybe the "noping" is the problem (I'd check, but I'm not in work
right now :>).  Certainly the boxes I tag with "dialup" go clear when
the ping check fails, not purple.

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