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Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Solution



Rafal Roginela wrote:
Hi all,

Need some advice please and maybe a walkthrough if someone has already done this. Here is what I am trying to accomplish:
 

I have my own company and I want to use Hobbit to monitor my clients 
system. I want to use a small factor pc for this and I found one that 
is small and requires little power although still offers the 
familiarity of a standard PC (Shuttle K45). What I need help with is 
settling on a Linux distro that is somewhat compact and easy to get 
working with Hobbit. I will be limited to a small HD (by small I mean 
<40 GB ;-) and 512 Mb of RAM. I’m looking to build a rock solid 
install that can be replicated in it’s base form and then customized a 
little here and there to suit the needs for that particular clients 
and I’m talking Small business maybe 2 servers (all windows at the 
moment) at most and some network devices for uptime(printers and 
such). Any help would be very appreciated. Also if you think that 
hobbit may be overkill for this job and have a better suggestion then 
I’m open to that too.
For limited RAM like your situation, I'd put a no-frills distro like 
ubuntu server on the box - and FWIW the 8.04 LTS edition which just came 
out will be supported until 2013.
Joe