[hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:18:17AM -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> 
> 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?

The only tools you need for building a Hobbit client are a C compiler
and GNU make. Period.

Combined with the fact that you can compile the client on one system, 
wrap it up in a tar-file and install it on all of the other systems,
I really don't think this is a big issue. I've already had a couple of
people offering their pre-built clients for various platforms for 
download, so I expect that once the 4.2 release is out, there will 
quickly be ready-to-run binaries available for download.

I really don't want to have two separate implementations of the same 
utility. Especially not one that I will not be able to maintain - I
am about as good at Perl programming as the proverbial monkey.


Regards,
Henrik