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Re: [hobbit] Multiple Views
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: Re: [hobbit] Multiple Views
- From: JT Justman <jt (at) mail.airdelites.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:07:42 -0700
- References: <C99DCCB44C93494CB2779B52336743939C9824@MAIL03.orhs.org>
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Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
> Hello All,
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> I’ve got a question… And I apologize ahead of time if it’s been covered
> already.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Has anyone done something like this? Is there a better way within
> hobbit itself?
Perhaps you should leave things as thy are, as a (not so) subtle
reminder of the fickleness of Windows servers
</winbash>
JT
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