[hobbit] Hobbit

[Henrik Stoerner]

Hi CJ,

You sent your mail to the Hobbit mailing list, but it seems you haven't
(yet) subscribed to the list - so I've bcc'ed you on this reply.

I'm sorry to hear that someone decided on using Hobbit without listening
to the people who actually will be using the monitoring system. That's a 
bad start for any type of software deployment.

However, since the decision has been made, I suggest that we try to make
the best of it. As the main Hobbit developer, I could certainly use some
input from people like You who have lots of experience with other
systems - there are always things that can be improved. And I must admit
that I haven't had the patience to really work with Nagios, so that is
a "competitor" I do not have a lot of knowledge about. So there is
definitely some things I could learn from Your experience.

Questions, suggestions for improvements and just general cries for help
are always welcome at hobbit at hswn.dk - I'd recommend that You subscribe
to the list if you want to be sure to see the responses.


Regards,
Henrik

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:03:05AM +0200, CJ wrote:
> 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