[hobbit] nagios vs hobbit

[Daniel J McDonald]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:27 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2008 15:42:08 McDonald, Dan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:05 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > > On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:26:55 Shawn Heisey wrote:
> > > > Geoff Steer wrote:
> > > > >  Every time I have to add a new monitor or get asked to graph
> > > > > something, I keep thinking 'This would be so much easier with
> > > > > hobbit!'
> > > >
> > > > At my job, we're using two primary tools for network monitoring -
> > > > Hobbit and OpenNMS.  Hobbit is primarily for system monitoring, and
> > > > OpenNMS for network monitoring.
> > >
> > > You mean for SNMP polling?
> > >
> > > <plug>Have you tried devmon</plug>
> >
> > I would, if it supported snmp V3...
> 
> It's on the to-do list. If you can test, 

Certainly.  I have many hundreds of snmp v3 enabled hosts.

> I will try and implement soon. AFAIK, 
> SNMP_Session supports snmpv3, so it should mostly be a configuration issue.

No, I had to re-write mrtg to support Net_SNMP_Session, which has mostly
the same API as SNMP_Session, with just a few tweaks.  Net_SNMP_Session
calls Net::SNMP, which has binaries from the NetSNMP project, so it's
not as portable.

> 
> (You could also file a bug on the sourceforge tracker, so I don't forget).
ok

> 
> (First 2 weeks are looking most promising for some real devmon development).
>