Re: [hobbit] Implementation Assistance - New User

["Peter Welter" <peter.welter (at) gmail.com>]

James,

I can help you with some of your questions;

2006/11/3, James Wade <jkwade (at) futurefrontiers.com>:
> I need assistance with the clients. The server is working.
>
> 2)  I had larrd installed on Big Brother, and assumed that
>  the larrd scripts on the clients could be disabled because
>  Hobbit did iostat and vmstat. However, they turned purple.
>
>  So, I restarted the larrd scripts from within Hobbit. However,
>  they still stay purple. They don't seem to update properly.
>
>  Do you have to use larrd on the clients or does Hobbit do
>  an iostat, vmstat test like larrd?
No, the Hobbit-client software gathers all data as you said (fi.
iostat, vmstat) needed for the server to build the graph-part. The
iostat-part is currently under development (search the mailinglist for
more info) but I'm confident that Henrik will deliver some terrific
work here (again). The vmstat, needed for fi. the load-graph should
already work.

>  3) Does anyone use Hobbit for clients? I'm considering just
>  living my clients using Big Brother because of less implementation
> hours.  What's the advantage to moving to hobbit?
You can do that, there is no need to rush to change all clients
immedeately, but you can change in  phases (first the test-systems,
see the differences and new graphs). Imho, there are lots of
improvements here, because a Hobbit-client show top-output for the
cpu-test, ps-output for the process-check, etc. So the need to login
at a system is hardly there, after you changed clients. Besides, the
Hobbit-client is consuming less resources. Best of all, the output the
os-commands generate is send to your hobbit server and can be seen and
checked! At the bottom of each test, you see the link 'Client data'.
Oh, I forgot another, even better feature: centralized management of
thresholds! Disk, memory, cpu etc. It's the server to decide and not
the client. So I think you will gain some time here ;-)

>  4) Are there any additional add-ins for hobbit, ie…. plugins
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/about.html#addons

Peter