[hobbit] Wanna show off.

[Neil Franken]

Hi Guys

 

I do realize that we need to provide business with solutions instead of
preffered software. We are a small organization growing fast. So
currently I am monitoring 15 servers with Xymon. I have been able to
customize xymon to show me SQL user connections, SQL transactions per
second and all the other good stuff. However the new HOD has decided
that open source is rubbish. He hates it and does not want any open
source products on the site. I have approached my CTO about this as it
seems we are being forced to use solutions that this guy has some
experience with. IMHO use the best tool for the job. Xymon is perfect
when I started here there was no monitoring in place. With Xymon's help
I took a severely unstable SQL environment to something that actually
runs smoothly. 

 

Anyway once again thanks for the input. I just needed to show my CTO
that this is not just some small time mickey mouse monitoring system.

 

Regards

Neil

 

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From: david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au [mailto:david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au] 
Sent: 01 July 2009 01:44 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

 


Do you mean certain functions, or certain hosts. Either way, we do both
and the authentication is done to the AD domain so you use your normal
passwords and userid's. 

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From: 

Denis <denis at crewhub.net> 

To: 

hobbit at hswn.dk 

Date: 

01/07/2009 12:37 AM 

Subject: 

Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

 

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I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.
We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.
Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty
access to only some parts of the web console.
So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model
between entreprise and community product.
i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need to
admit that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities
yet

Reagds,

Denis

Everett, Vernon wrote: 
Unfortunately, I agree with Buchan on this.

You need to remember, the purpose of IT is to provide solutions, not run
preferred software. 
And this cuts both ways.
You can't run Hobbit just because you like it.
But by the same token, your PHB can't run his commercial stuff, just
because he likes it.
It needs to provide a solution to a business need.

One of the things you might find yourself up against, is that Hobbit
doesn't have "Golf days" with free booze, and fancy cocktail parties and
product launches with open bar tabs, goodie-bags and other junkets that
the big vendors can provide.
And, for the morally elastic PHB, this is the clincher, not the quality
of the solution.

Good luck.

Regards
   V



-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
<mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> ] 
Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 5:12 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk> 
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:

  
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored 
by Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  
He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring
system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this 
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
    

>From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a
cost effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may
not necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are
happy to work with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once
they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the monitoring
requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide against
you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into
account, and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify
them and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run
Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used
Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan

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