[hobbit] Moving from BB to Hobbit

[Shane Presley]

That sounds like a great approach.  I'll start with the server, and
look to upgrade the clients after.  Thanks for the info...

Shane

On 10/2/06, Francesco Duranti <fduranti at q8.it> wrote:
> 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