[hobbit] Hobbit Monitor version 4.2 released

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 07:45, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0.
>
> This release comes after a full year of development since the
> previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots
> of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to
> say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done.
>
> This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights
> of this release are:
>
> * Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring
>   of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles,
>   network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes,
>   system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is
>   detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so
>   it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host
>   has completely crashed.
>
> * Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally
>   connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For
>   DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric-
>   tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling
>   of the data.
>
> * Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client
>   installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically
>   without having to physically access the client hosts.
>   Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit
>   server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems.
>
> * A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge
>   alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required
>   in previous releases.
>
> * A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration
>   of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based
>   configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to
>   easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear
>   on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on
>   the most important events at any given time.
>
> * A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend
>   data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing
>   a service across multiple hosts.
>
> * Several independent projects have sprung up, including a
>   BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon
>   (a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and
>   The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample
>   configurations, and other interesting things). Links to
>   these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help.
>
> Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements
> and bugfixes.
>
> Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on
> SourceForge.net:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=140
>220
>
> If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer
> to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions
> on updating.
>


FYI, since we run hobbit on a number of production machines, I have:

1)Updated the packages in Mandriva coooker
2)Rebuilt these packages for RHEL2.1, 3, 4, 4 x86_64.

I hope to build Solaris packages for at least Solaris 9 and 10 tomorrow, maybe 
8 later (using rpm :-P).

I will probably also push 4.2 to Mandriva 2006 (community tree).

Note that I have fixed a number of problems with the spec file that is shipped 
with hobbit that you only run into when you maintain the package for a 
distribution that does checks across the whole distribution for conflicting 
files etc etc. So in my packages, the hobbit package requires hobbit-client, 
and no files conflict. I still have some other minor issues to fix (eg make 
the init script comply with requirements ).

Packages for RHEL can be found here:
http://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/buchan/hobbit/

I haven't had time to generate package metadata for these yet.

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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