[hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?

[Smith, Jim]

The only thing I have changed on my BB clients is adding a line for the
Hobbit server to the bb-hosts file.  That's it!

 

Jim Smith

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at dpi.wa.gov.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:31 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I
lose from migrating?

 

You will lose nothing.

I did exactly that. 

We had a third party monitoring our systems with BB when I joined my

previous company.

I changed the BB scripts to send to my Hobbit server as well as their BB

server. (Duplicated the bb command line with the IP address of my Hobbit

server instead of $BBDISPLAY)

This meant the third party had a BB server running, and I had a Hobbit

server, and they weren't even aware that the Hobbit server existed.

(Yes, both were running in parallel, giving the same results)

 

When I had suffiently impressed my PHB that Hobbit is better than BB,

because it could do more, we told the third party where to get off, and

all monitoring was done internally.

(OK, there was far more politics involved in dumping the third party

than just Hobbit/BB, but it helped having the ability to monitor our own

systems as well, if not better than they were.)

I then moved all our systems to the Hobbit client as and when I had

time.

 

Now stop with the questions. Just do it. You will never look back. :-)

 

Cheers

    Vernon

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Jordan Mendler [mailto:jmendler at ucla.edu] 

Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 9:00 AM

To: hobbit at hswn.dk

Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I

lose from migrating?

 

Awesome guys, no doubt I am gonna try it out when I get some free time.

I think the fact that I got all my questions answered a few different

times in a very short period says something about the community.

 

So if I use the existing BB clients with a new Hobbit server, what

functionally will be lost until I have a chance to upgrade all the

clients to hobbit?

 

Thanks so much,

Jordan

 

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