[hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios

[Moore, Joe]

The "mconnect" command might also work.  It's been around on solaris
since v2.4... it's delivered with Sendmail apparently.
 
echo "status host.service green `date` all ok" | mconnect $BBHOST 1984
 
--Joe


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	From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] 
	Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:57 PM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios
	
	
	That's a good idea, I forgot about that Perl version of bb. Hmm
I wonder if there is anything special that the bb binary does to send
it's data, such that you could just use "netcat" and pipe the client
data to it. Only problem then is his server might not have netcat either
:)
	
	-Charles
	
	Larry Barber wrote: 

		The only binary you _really_ need is bb and I think I
saw a Perl version of the BigBrother bb program on deadcat. If you were
to install that you could use cron (assuming these are Unix-like
machines) to run the hobbitclient.sh script every 5 minutes. 
		
		Thanks,
		Larry Barber
		
		
		On 6/21/06, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com >
wrote: 

			Henrik:
			
			I heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional
client that does not have to 
			be compiled.  Don't know if this is true, but it
would sure help me out
			if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell"
client that I could use on
			the one or two systems where I cannot install
all the junk needed to 
			compile a Hobbit client binary.  Binary Perl
distributions that just
			drop in are usually available...  I know there
would be a performance
			hit, but I would rather have a more
expensive-to-run client than no
			client. 
			
			Thoughts?
			
			GLH
			-----Original Message-----
			From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
			Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:33 AM
			To: hobbit at hswn.dk
			Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios
			
			On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:47:47PM -0400,
Matthew Davis wrote:
			> I tried out nagios and one huge winning factor
for Hobbit was
			> simplicity.  I put quite a bit of time into
getting nagios off the 
			> ground with little luck.  And in the same
amount of time, I was able
			> to get nearly all functionality I required out
of a monitoring
			> program.
			
			I had a funny experience last week. There was a
Linux Users group 
			meeting here in Copenhagen, where the subject
was "Setting up Nagios".
			Since I'm always interested to see what the
competitors look like, I
			attended. The guy who told about Nagios knew
that I am behind Hobbit, as 
			did a couple of the people in the audience. So
when the talk about
			Nagios was over and there was some spare time
left, they asked me if I
			could give a quick overview of Hobbit. Which I
did, thanks to a wireless
			Internet connection they managed to setup
quickly.
			
			After about an hour, someone in the audience
asked the Nagios guy "after
			hearing about Nagios and Hobbit tonight, why
didn't you just install
			Hobbit?" 
			
			I think that tells a lot about how easy it is to
setup Hobbit compared
			to Nagios.
			
			
			



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