Re: [hobbit] New Big Brother interface

[Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

I was mostly talking about the interface to it - I find it way too busy.

BBwin is the best thing you have today for Windows Xymon clients.  Not sure
if it tells you about the faults or cache hits/second but a script should be
capable of being written...

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On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Marijn Hofstra <m.hofstra (at) detamboer.nl>wrote:

> > ________________________________
> > > From: josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com
> > > Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:58:27 -0500
> > > To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> > > Subject: [hobbit] New Big Brother interface
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen this? This is just crazy...
> > >
> > > http://www.bb4.com/bb4-screenshot-tour/index.html
> > >
> > > Please don't ever let Xymon go down this road.
> >
> > How about this one ? at
> > http://xymon.dlinkddns.com/hobbit/ext3/examples/desktop/
> > It provide interface for old Tigra menu system  and new UI by
> > EXTJS RIA framework.
>
> That last one doesn't seem to add anything useful with the modified GUI...
> kind of silly. The bb4.com one however isn't all that bad, take page 8 for
> example, that gives me lots of info that may be very useful (page
> faults/second, cache hits/second), I can't find that stuff on my hobbit
> server atm (and certainly not in such a orderly fashion on only one page).
>
> It's the core functionality I really care about. As long as the GUI isn't
> stopping me from doing usefull stuff (for example, not allowing me to edit
> config files manually anymore or adding custom scripts), I don't see the
> problem.
>
> That said, I am however happy to stick with xymon. If bb4 has a nice
> feature, just nick the idea and do it the xymon way!:)
>
> -Marijn
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