Re: [hobbit] Who's using

[Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>]

Jeffcoat, Al wrote:

> Hello All,
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> We presented Hobbit to our new director today, in hopes of getting it 
> more widely utilized(he's also looking for a solution to monitor 
> applications running on windows servers on our network, some of which 
> have a serious failure rate.)  We have been using it to monitor the 
> UNIX/Big Iron side of the house for about 6 years now, but could never 
> grow it outside of that, for various reasons (free=no support, 
> non-acceptance of unix based products from our windows admins, etc).  
> He really was impressed with Hobbit, and said it's the first time he's 
> seen a presentation where someone wasn't asking for any money and the 
> product was already implemented.
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> During the presentation, he asked who else is using BB/Hobbit.  There 
> used to be a client list on the bb4.net page, which is no longer 
> there.  So I figured I'd solicit the list to see who else is using 
> Hobbit or BB (commercial or free), to answer the only question he 
> asked that I couldn't.
Jeff,

I work for Cisco Systems Inc (Cisco Networking Academy), and implemented 
BB as soon as I assumed my position. I have a test Hobbit server up, and 
will be migrating to it as soon as it is out of RC stage. I am 
monitoring Linux, Solaris, and Windows servers with BB/Hobbit. Don't 
forget that you can get support for BB now, although I don't know if 
they would support just the client side.  In my experience, the mailing 
lists, particularly the archives, are all the support you really need :)

I also implemented BB at my last job with Qwest Communications, Inc.  I 
believe they are still using it and are evaluating Hobbit as well.

-Charles