[hobbit] nagios vs hobbit

[Moby]

Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:27 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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>> On Friday 17 October 2008 15:42:08 McDonald, Dan wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:05 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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>>>> On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:26:55 Shawn Heisey wrote:
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>>>>> Geoff Steer wrote:
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>>>>>>  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>
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>>> I would, if it supported snmp V3...
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>> It's on the to-do list. If you can test, 
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> Certainly.  I have many hundreds of snmp v3 enabled hosts.
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>> I will try and implement soon. AFAIK, 
>> SNMP_Session supports snmpv3, so it should mostly be a configuration issue.
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> 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.
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>> (You could also file a bug on the sourceforge tracker, so I don't forget).
>>     
> ok
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>> (First 2 weeks are looking most promising for some real devmon development).
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One more item I would like to add to the list of differences between 
Hobbit and Nagios, which is somewhat critical at one of my sites, is 
proxy options - Nagios has nrpe and/or nsca.  Something along the lines 
of having choices of different (push/pull) type proxy setups would be a 
big benefit for Hobbit, at least from my perspective.

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