[hobbit] Monitoring a laptop

[David Gilmore]

Ping has remained clear, but CPU, Disk, Memory, etc went purple.

Dave
 

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> dk] On Behalf Of Rob MacGregor
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 5:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring a laptop
> 
> On 3/31/06, David Gilmore <david at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking of monitoring employee laptops, and maybe even 
> > desktops, with hobbit.  I added a group to my hosts file 
> with the DIAL 
> > tag, created a line in the hosts file 0.0.0.0 
> mylaptop.mydomain.local 
> > # noping.  I then installed a client on the laptop and just 
> set it to 
> > monitor the basics (CPU, Disk, Memory).  I then shut down 
> the laptop 
> > and took it home.  Thirty minutes later I checked my hobbit 
> pages from 
> > my home desktop and saw that the status of the client was set to 
> > purple.  I obviously misunderstood the functionality of the DIALUP 
> > tag.  Is it possible to monitor a device that would only check in a 
> > couple of times a day?  I know I could set specific alerts 
> thresholds 
> > for the laptop, but was hoping there might be a "universal" 
> solution.
> 
> Maybe the "noping" is the problem (I'd check, but I'm not in 
> work right now :>).  Certainly the boxes I tag with "dialup" 
> go clear when the ping check fails, not purple.
> 
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> Rob MacGregor
>       Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
>         doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche
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