I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0.
This release comes after a full year of development since the
previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots
of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to
say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done.
This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights
of this release are:
* Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring
of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles,
network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes,
system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is
detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so
it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host
has completely crashed.
* Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally
connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For
DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric-
tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling
of the data.
* Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client
installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically
without having to physically access the client hosts.
Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit
server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems.
* A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge
alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required
in previous releases.
* A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration
of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based
configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to
easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear
on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on
the most important events at any given time.
* A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend
data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing
a service across multiple hosts.
* Several independent projects have sprung up, including a
BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon
(a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and
The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample
configurations, and other interesting things). Links to
these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help.
Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements
and bugfixes.
Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on
SourceForge.net:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=
140220
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer
to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions
on updating.
I hope You will enjoy it.
Regards,
Henrik
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