[hobbit] Shire: update

[Brodie, Kent]

One category I'd like to see is a place for user-created config files to
go as examples.  For example, sample bb-hosts files, hobbit-clients.cfg,
hobbit-alerts.cfg, etc.    I had a wee bit of struggling to get the
behavior of some of the alerting rules right, for example.

As far as categories in general, I agree deadcat has too many.....

My $0.02:

Network
Disk
Email
Databases
HTTP
Config Examples
Environment
Security

At least to start with- perhaps a few more.    I think most items can be
lumped in here somewhere.

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Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
(414) 456-8590
-----Original Message-----
From: Galen Johnson [mailto:gjohnson at trantor.org] 
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:44 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Shire: update

Galen Johnson wrote:

> Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on the new monitor site that 
> is being set up (theshire.sf.net)...Sourceforge accepted it late last 
> night ( around midnight EDT).   I want to work with Henrik a bit to 
> make sure that our visions converge on this.  I also need to set up 
> the categories (at a minimum) before turning everyone loose...I would 
> prefer there to be some structure in place beforehand.  Please be 
> patient...I really appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for this project 
> and I hope to have everything going in the next few days.  It's also 
> been a LONG time since I've done anything on SF and need to refresh my

> memory about things (and become familiar with some of the new tools).
>
> =G=
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OK...we're getting to the point to where we need to consider the 
categories...personally, I think deadcat has too many.  I'd like to keep

the categories as straightforward as possible.  I'm open to ideas as to 
what the basic categories should be...I'm also going to see how many 
times I can use the word categories in this email...

I'm hoping the the BBWin folks will consider using this area as well.  
I'm not going to prompt with the list of categories I have in mind as 
I'd rather hear what other users think first.

I'd also like to provide a tutorial on writing monitoring scripts 
complete with the graphing and alerting.  Henrik has provided some basic

framework for a basic client and server script.  I should probably go 
back through the archives to see what already exists as well (if you 
know of something, by all means, please point me to it).

I have a developers list and announcement list set up.  I still need to 
flesh the details out a bit more.   I'd like to set up a job that 
automatically sends a daily report to the announce list if new/updated 
monitors are added but I'm going to have to figure that out later.  (I 
can see why Henrik hasn't found the time to tackle this :-) )

=G=

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