[hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios

[Schwimmer, Eric E *HS]

Here's a perl module that emulates the bb binary:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/bbtools/bbmsg.pm

-Eric


> -----Original Message-----
> 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 <mailto: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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