[hobbit] Hobbit versus Unicenter/TNG

[Daniel J McDonald]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:16 -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:

> I have yet to see ANY of the vendor-provided tools that work with a
> lightweight client for viewing the current status. Hobbit lets me check
> things with any browser, on any OS 


I've even written an app to display the red alerts on my Cisco IP phone!
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Cisco::IPPhone;
my  $mytext = new Cisco::IPPhone;


my @redboard = `bb localhost "hobbitdboard color=RED
fields=hostname,testname"`;
my $niceline;
foreach my $red (@redboard) {
        $niceline .= join(",",split(/\|/,$red))."\n";
};

$mytext->Text( { Title => "Red Alerts", Prompt => "Red Items in Hobbit",
                           Text => $niceline});
$mytext->AddSoftKeyItem( { Name => "Update", URL => "SoftKey:Update",
                           Position => "1" });
$mytext->AddSoftKeyItem( { Name => "Exit", URL => "SoftKey:Exit",
                           Position => "2" });
print $mytext->Content;


I could, if I were willing to do a little bit of work, get it to
acknowledge the alerts with the touch-screen... Let's see CA do that!

CA is the only "official" monitoring solution here too, but nobody has
got it working.  In the mean-time I have real-time displays of my hobbit
system (and my hobbit-based bbmap) at the NOC.

-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com