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size=2>The "mconnect" command might also work. It's been around on solaris
since v2.4... it's delivered with Sendmail apparently.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>echo "status host.service green `date` all ok" | mconnect $BBHOST
1984</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=826012118-21062006><FONT face=Arial
size=2>--Joe</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr@cisco.com]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs
Nagios<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>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
:)<BR><BR>-Charles<BR><BR>Larry Barber wrote:
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cite=mid199afa060606211026l7e7398e2t81a95d931d54a54b@mail.gmail.com
type="cite">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. <BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Larry
Barber<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 6/21/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Hubbard,
Greg L</B> <<A
href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com">greg.hubbard@eds.com</A> >
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Henrik:<BR><BR>I
heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional client that does not have to
<BR>be compiled. Don't know if this is true, but it would sure
help me out<BR>if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell" client that I
could use on<BR>the one or two systems where I cannot install all the junk
needed to <BR>compile a Hobbit client binary. Binary Perl
distributions that just<BR>drop in are usually available... I
know there would be a performance<BR>hit, but I would rather have a more
expensive-to-run client than no<BR>client.
<BR><BR>Thoughts?<BR><BR>GLH<BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Henrik
Stoerner [mailto:<A
href="mailto:henrik@hswn.dk">henrik@hswn.dk</A>]<BR>Sent: Wednesday, June
21, 2006 9:33 AM<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</A><BR>Subject: Re: [hobbit]
Hobbit vs Nagios<BR><BR>On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:47:47PM -0400, Matthew
Davis wrote:<BR>> I tried out nagios and one huge winning factor for
Hobbit was<BR>> simplicity. I put quite a bit of time into
getting nagios off the <BR>> ground with little luck. And in
the same amount of time, I was able<BR>> to get nearly all
functionality I required out of a monitoring<BR>> program.<BR><BR>I had
a funny experience last week. There was a Linux Users group <BR>meeting
here in Copenhagen, where the subject was "Setting up Nagios".<BR>Since
I'm always interested to see what the competitors look like,
I<BR>attended. The guy who told about Nagios knew that I am behind Hobbit,
as <BR>did a couple of the people in the audience. So when the talk
about<BR>Nagios was over and there was some spare time left, they asked me
if I<BR>could give a quick overview of Hobbit. Which I did, thanks to a
wireless<BR>Internet connection they managed to setup
quickly.<BR><BR>After about an hour, someone in the audience asked the
Nagios guy "after<BR>hearing about Nagios and Hobbit tonight, why didn't
you just install<BR>Hobbit?" <BR><BR>I think that tells a lot about how
easy it is to setup Hobbit compared<BR>to
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