Hobbit

CJ pretocj2 at staff.intekom.com
Mon Nov 20 10:03:05 CET 2006


Hi

Im am a sysadmin fo a ISP tipe environment. We have been using Nagios as our 
monitoring tool. I do admit that I like Nagios and prefer Nagios over using 
the Hobbit. Unfortuanately some people with too much say in our organisation 
decided to use Hobbit. These people are big hobbit fans and I even found them 
on mailing lists trying to convince Nagios users to switch to hobbit. Since 
one of my main functions is maintaining the monitoring environment, this 
decision was a bit of a let down.

Hobbit is easier to configure, I give you that. We are running Nagios and 
Hobbit side by side and obviously when new servers are build nagios is left 
out and the kickstarts are built to install hobbit. But I could do some 
comparisons and I started collecting data that makes hobbit look not so 
reliable as Nagios.  Nagios also has some functionality that I could not find 
in hobbit.

I have never been on any hobbit mailing list. Since the decision was made, and 
that is now the road we are going. I would like to see some 
changes/additions, or make some suggestions to the hobbit. Where can I send 
my suggestions to?

I am currently a bit anti hobbit, for good reason, but that could change, I 
hope.

Regards

CJ



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