[hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios

[Larry Barber]

The only binary you _really_ need is bb and I think I saw a Perl version of
the BigBrother bb program on deadcat. If you were to install that you could
use cron (assuming these are Unix-like machines) to run the
hobbitclient.shscript every 5 minutes.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 6/21/06, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
> Henrik:
>
> I heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional client that does not have to
> be compiled.  Don't know if this is true, but it would sure help me out
> if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell" client that I could use on
> the one or two systems where I cannot install all the junk needed to
> compile a Hobbit client binary.  Binary Perl distributions that just
> drop in are usually available...  I know there would be a performance
> hit, but I would rather have a more expensive-to-run client than no
> client.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> GLH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:33 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:47:47PM -0400, Matthew Davis wrote:
> > I tried out nagios and one huge winning factor for Hobbit was
> > simplicity.  I put quite a bit of time into getting nagios off the
> > ground with little luck.  And in the same amount of time, I was able
> > to get nearly all functionality I required out of a monitoring
> > program.
>
> I had a funny experience last week. There was a Linux Users group
> meeting here in Copenhagen, where the subject was "Setting up Nagios".
> Since I'm always interested to see what the competitors look like, I
> attended. The guy who told about Nagios knew that I am behind Hobbit, as
> did a couple of the people in the audience. So when the talk about
> Nagios was over and there was some spare time left, they asked me if I
> could give a quick overview of Hobbit. Which I did, thanks to a wireless
> Internet connection they managed to setup quickly.
>
> After about an hour, someone in the audience asked the Nagios guy "after
> hearing about Nagios and Hobbit tonight, why didn't you just install
> Hobbit?"
>
> I think that tells a lot about how easy it is to setup Hobbit compared
> to Nagios.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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