[hobbit] VAX Client

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:09:38PM +0530, arun.nale at tcs.com wrote:
> 
> Can we monitor applications running on VAX using Hobbit or BB.

There are two ways of monitoring: Either by looking at your server
across the network (e.g. requesting a webpage, trying to connect to
a mail server etc); or by running some script locally on your VAX
that performs some local checks - e.g. if a certain process or job
is running.

Network based monitoring is built into Hobbit, so if you setup a
Hobbit server, it will be able to monitor all of the common TCP/IP
based services. And even some of the not-so-common ones :-)

Running a script locally means that you must 1) create such a 
script; and 2) you need a tool to feed the result of your script
into Hobbit. This combination is what we call a Hobbit "client",
and Hobbit includes client packages for most of the common Unix-
like operating systems.

Would it be possible to create a client package for a VAX ? Sure,
but I'd need some help from you. You know how to monitor a VAX
(it's been 15 years since I last touched one of those), so you could
probably come up with a script that checks what the load and disk
utilisation is on the box; and what processes and tasks are active.

Second, we need a C compiler for the VAX. Is GNU C (gcc) available?
With a C compiler, you can try to build the Hobbit client programs.
It might require some tweaking to get the Makefile right for the
client, but once that is done you'll have the program needed to
send your status from the VAX over to Hobbit.


Regards,
Henrik