Re: [hobbit] Scalability?

[Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:42:06PM -0800, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
> The website says there is no client-side implementation. My
> current BB client installs include custom scripts I've written to work
> with custom protocols and apps, some of which we've patented, so it's
> not likely this would be something included in Hobbit. It's also not
> something that could be tested with SNMP. Would Hobbit still work for
> me?

Yes.

Hobbit currently relies on the Big Brother client for doing the
client-side tests, and the standard Big Brother client will happily
report data into Hobbit. So your custom extensions for the client
should work, no problem.

It's slightly different if you've written extensions that run on the
BBDISPLAY server, especially if they access the Big Brother logfiles
directly. BBMAP does this, and needs to be modified to work with
Hobbit, and possibly other extensions as well.

> We're monitoring over 1000 machines currently and this number will be
> greatly increasing in the near future. I was looking for something more
> scalable that doesn't include Nagios (hate it), and is something
> familiar and similar to BB.  Thanks.

I'm monitoring about 2000 machines currently, with my production box
running Big Brother + bbgen, and the test server running Hobbit.
The load on the Hobbit box is about 1/4 of the load on the BB box.


Henrik