[hobbit] Monitoring a laptop

[Larry Barber]

You probably need to remove the noping, dialup will make the network tests
go clear if they fail, but for disk, etc. to go clear, I _think_ they
require the ping test to fail, not be clear all the time.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 3/31/06, David Gilmore <david at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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> > 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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