[hobbit] Hobbit client checks

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:37:53AM +0200, Dirk Kastens wrote:
> 
> "All configuration of disk thresholds, load limits, which
> processes to monitor etc. is done on the Hobbit server,
> NOT on the client. This is to allow centralized configuration
> of the monitoring system."
> 
> I think, this is not a good idea. I told the administrators
> of the client systems that they are responsible for what
> BB will monitor. If they install a new program, they have
> to add the process name to the bb-proctab file to check
> if it's running. Now they have to inform me about what
> should be monitored and I have to edit the hobbit-clients.cfg
> file. That's a lot of work, apart from the fact that the
> file will be growing very quickly.

It's a design decision I made. The distributed configuration
doesn't work for my setup; I am sure you can find people
who prefer each of the setups.

> Wouldn't it be possible to still use local configuration
> files that are located in the client/etc directory?

Not the way Hobbit is built currently. So if that is a
problem, stick with the BB client for now.

It wouldn't be impossible to support both models. What currently
happens is that the client data is sent to the Hobbit server;
here it is fed into the hobbitd_client module and converted into
cpu, disk, memory etc. status messages. These are then sent
back to the Hobbit server.

So the simplest solution would be to run the normal Hobbit client
on your servers, but instead of sending data directly to the
Hobbit server, it would be fed into a local hobbitd_client 
running on the monitored server. This does require some small
code changes in the hobbitd_client module, but not very much.


Regards,
Henrik