[hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

[Hubbard, Greg L]

We are on the same page then.  I don't think I would ask Hobbit to do
this for very many devices.  I handle 100 traps per second in Netcool,
and I am just getting started.  But I love what Hobbit provides for
monitoring the tool servers themselves -- without relying on anything on
those same servers in order to function.

GLH 

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:33 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:07:31AM -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> Being familiar with both Netcool and Hobbit, I would never consider 
> replacing Netcool trap management with Hobbit.  Netcool processes 
> traps in "near real time" and scales quite large.  Hobbit does not 
> provide real time monitoring (default is 5 minute samples, with 1 
> minute screen updates).

There is nothing inherent in Hobbit that prevents it from doing
real-time handling of events. Hobbit processes events as soon as it is
told about them; the fact that some types of information is only checked
once every 5 minutes is not something that necessarily applies to
everything Hobbit monitors.

I havent looked at Andy's trap script, but if I were to implement SNMP
trap handling in Hobbit, I'd start off with snmptrapd from the Net-SNMP
tools - this receives snmp traps, and can be configured to do
"something" when a trap arrives. That "something" would then be a
script/utility that grabs the hostname and trap type from the trap
information, and feeds that into Hobbit as a status update. That will
give you an immediate alert, and a status change in the Hobbit display
if you use the "Critical systems" view which is dynamically generated.

I'm not throwing rocks at Netcool <grin> but I just want to make it
clear that Hobbit can be as real-time as you want it to - it's only a
matter of feeding it data as quickly as you possible.


Regards,
Henrik


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