[hobbit] Multiple Views

[JT Justman]

Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve got a question…  And I apologize ahead of time if it’s been covered
> already.
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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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