[hobbit] Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement

[Schwimmer, Eric E *HS]

Well, to be honest, the code is still far from what I would consider
"good" :)  

The template code, which is run once for every device during every 
polling cycle, is far from optimal (by far the slowest part of 
Devmon thus far; if there are any Elder Perl Gods out there that might
want to throw some Perl wisdom my way, please feel free).  

Multi-node IPC is also kind of a hack, too, since its all done through
the MySQL server (if someone wants to port Devmon to Postgres or
some other DB, or even take a shot at optimizing the current MySQL
tables, please do so.  I am not a DB guru).

That being said, it runs pretty solid.  Starting up a multi-node 
cluster takes some patience and little TLC, but once it's running it
works fairly well.

As to making Hobbit the default config: choosing between Hobbit
and BB was a no-brainer for us here.  Hobbit is "Just Better".

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
Sent: Thu 2/23/2006 4:26 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Devmon : a bbxsnmp.pl & routermon replacement
 
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:58:33PM -0500, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:
> 
> I've been working on a little project for the past 6 months or so, one
> that is designed to replace bbxsnmp.pl, routermon, and other similar
> SNMP data collectors for the Hobbit and BigBrother monitoring systems.

Nice!

I've given it a quick look-over, and even with my less-than-stellar
Perl knowledge, I can see that this covers a lot of the features 
that people have requested from an SNMP data collector for Hobbit.
The idea about "templates" looks very promising - it will be 
interesting to try it out on some of the devices I have access to.
Having good, well-documented and maintained SNMP support for Hobbit
has been on my wish-list for quite some time.

> And last, but not least, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his
> excellent work on Hobbit, as Devmon wouldn't be very useful without it!
> :)

I'm flattered that you made Hobbit the default in your config :-) And
truly delighted that my little project is so useful, that You would 
spend time improving on it. 

Thanks!


Henrik


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