[hobbit] Moving from BB to Hobbit

[Francesco Duranti]

You can use bb clients (unix and windows work).
The big difference is that with bb you'll need to have distributed
configuration on all client, using the hobbit client you can centralize
the configuration on the server for the Unix machine. The hobbit unix
client have also some more tests it do on clients and is a bit more user
friendly on configuration.
You can probably start with the bb client and migrate them to hobbit in
some times (the client installation is a compile 1 time for architecture
and copy the directory to the same architecture servers operation so it
will not require too much time). And one time you've installed 4.2
clients you can them update/upgrade them in the future automatically.

We're currently using the bb windows client on more then 50 servers,
we're thinking to change to the bbwin client that have some more
functionality but having a xml configuration file (instead of having a
centralized configuration like the unix client) and without a GUI it's a
bit more complicate than the unix ones. Some of the next versions of the
bbwin client should also have the gui and the centralized configuration
so it could be a good thing to start testing with it also.

Francesco


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Presley [mailto:shane.presley at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:29 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Moving from BB to Hobbit
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been running bb1.9e for some time.  I am considering an 
> upgrade to Hobbit.  I'll be building a test box shortly for 
> the server.
> 
> Regarding the clients, can the hobbit server take client data 
> from bb1.9e clients?  Or do I need to use the Hobbit client?  
> And how about Windows clients?
> 
> Thanks
> Shane
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