[hobbit] Suitability for bb replacement in large enterprise

Dominique Frise dominique.frise at unil.ch
Sun Dec 7 11:46:14 CET 2008


Joe Sloan wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I learned about hobbit a couple years back, and I've been using it in 
> some small shops, but I'm hoping to be able to deploy it for my main 
> employer.
> 
> At my day job, we've been using the old big brother 1.9e plus bbgen-3.5 
> to monitor hundreds of unix and windows servers spread across 2 data 
> centers. Id like to move to hobbit, but it is important that it be able 
> to do what bb does. For the most part it is better than bb, but I have 2 
> specific areas of concern:
> 
> 1. snmp traps: Our netcool ticketing system relies on snmp traps from 
> big brother whenever there is a significant event.
> 
We use the elegant method from Andy Farrior : 
http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne



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