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Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios

That's a good idea, I forgot about that Perl version of bb. Hmm I wonder if there is anything special that the bb binary does to send it's data, such that you could just use "netcat" and pipe the client data to it. Only problem then is his server might not have netcat either :)

-Charles

Larry Barber wrote:
The only binary you _really_ need is bb and I think I saw a Perl version of the BigBrother bb program on deadcat. If you were to install that you could use cron (assuming these are Unix-like machines) to run the hobbitclient.sh script every 5 minutes.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 6/21/06, *Hubbard, Greg L* <greg.hubbard (at) eds.com <mailto:greg.hubbard (at) eds.com> > wrote:

    Henrik:

    I heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional client that does not
    have to
    be compiled.  Don't know if this is true, but it would sure help
    me out
    if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell" client that I could use on
    the one or two systems where I cannot install all the junk needed to
    compile a Hobbit client binary.  Binary Perl distributions that just
    drop in are usually available...  I know there would be a performance
    hit, but I would rather have a more expensive-to-run client than no
    client.

    Thoughts?

    GLH
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk <mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk>]
    Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:33 AM
    To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
    Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios

    On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:47:47PM -0400, Matthew Davis wrote:
    > I tried out nagios and one huge winning factor for Hobbit was
    > simplicity.  I put quite a bit of time into getting nagios off the
    > ground with little luck.  And in the same amount of time, I was able
    > to get nearly all functionality I required out of a monitoring
    > program.

    I had a funny experience last week. There was a Linux Users group
    meeting here in Copenhagen, where the subject was "Setting up Nagios".
    Since I'm always interested to see what the competitors look like, I
    attended. The guy who told about Nagios knew that I am behind
    Hobbit, as
    did a couple of the people in the audience. So when the talk about
    Nagios was over and there was some spare time left, they asked me if I
    could give a quick overview of Hobbit. Which I did, thanks to a
    wireless
    Internet connection they managed to setup quickly.

    After about an hour, someone in the audience asked the Nagios guy
    "after
    hearing about Nagios and Hobbit tonight, why didn't you just install
    Hobbit?"

    I think that tells a lot about how easy it is to setup Hobbit compared
    to Nagios.