[hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

[Asif Iqbal]

On 7/17/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> 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



I wish you do :-). I have lots of customers who like to see that feature in
hobbit.
May be then I can convince my IT department to get rid of Netcool slowly :P


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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