Re: [hobbit] The latest version of hobbit.

[Martin Flemming <martin.flemming (at) desy.de>]

Hi !

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, McGraw, Robert P wrote:

> I am running hobbit 4.1.2p1. I want to upgrade to the latest stable version.
> 
> I found versions of hobbit on www.hswn.dk and sourceforge. 
> 
> Where do I get the latest stable version of hobbit? 

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/hobbit-4.2.0/

> Are there patches that
> have to be added to this version or is there a version with the patches
> already? 

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/patches/

> What is the latest version?
> 

Snapshot is not the last version, but the last snapshot ..

http://www.hswn.dk/beta/

> I have been using bb then hobbit for many years and have found it excellent.
> There is another department that is looking into nagios monitoring software.
> They are willing to monitor other departments hosts if we want. Looking at
> their web page I see a lot of eye candy reports and they look cluttered but
> that is just looking at the screen shots. I personally like hobbit's simple
> interface.
> 
> Has anyone else looked at nagios and why did you prefer hobbit over nagios?

e.g

- a nice report of Tracy Di Marco White why using Hobbit 

http://gendalia.public.iastate.edu/Hobbit.txt

- nice thread

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/05/msg00359.html

- wiki

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/User_Guide#Why_use_hobbit_.3F


> Just wondering.

Not really .. ?

cheers,
        Martin