RE: [hobbit] Nagios client, Hobbit server anyone?

["Kern, Thomas" <Thomas.Kern (at) hq.doe.gov>]

Or 

6) Modify Hobbit server to understand Nagios client data without
modifications to the Nagios clients at all.

I like approach #3, but I think you will get it done faster doing #2.


/Thomas Kern
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ward, Martin [mailto:Martin.Ward (at) colt.net] 
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 11:17
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Nagios client, Hobbit server anyone?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been presented with an 'interesting' problem in that I 
> have been tasked with taking over the monitoring of a number 
> machines (circa two dozen) that currently run Nagios clients 
> (NRPE I guess but don't know for certain yet). I have been 
> told that these machines have a few hundred (probably more 
> like forty or fifty, but I don't know yet) separate checks 
> that are performed by the Nagios client and the results 
> passed back to the server. These Nagios checks work fine and 
> have done so for a few years. The managers would prefer to 
> keep the Nagios client up and running until I can provide 
> them with a working, proven alternative.
> 
> I therefore have a few options open:
> 1. Install my own Nagios server and run Hobbit and Nagios 
> side-by-side. Not a good option by any means. Why have two 
> different monitoring applications?
> 2. Convert the Nagios scripts to Hobbit ones. This would 
> likely entail running both monitoring clients on each machine 
> and copying/rewriting the monitor scripts one at a time, 
> checking the results with both Nagios and Hobbit to ensure 
> that alerts and reports are happening correctly. Once all 
> scripts are converted, remove the Nagios client. This has 
> clear benefits but is naturally going to take time, and pain, 
> and will require that I have two monitor consoles, albeit temporarily.
> 3. Write a program that acts like a Hobbit proxy server, 
> listening on the Nagios port and translating the Nagios 
> reports and alerts in to Hobbit ones. This has benefits in 
> that there will only be one bit of code to write, albeit a 
> potentially large bit. I will have written the code so if it 
> breaks I can fix it. The downside is that there is going to 
> be a considerable amount of time involved in writing the 
> proxy program and I will have to learn how Nagios packets are 
> written and how the Hobbit proxy works.
> 4. I see if anyone more able than I has done anything 
> remotely like this that I can beg or borrow to use.
> 5. Something else that I haven't thought of...
> 
> I thought I'd try option 4 first!
> 
> |\/|artin
>