[hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit

[T.J. Yang]

Thanks for your comment, I  don't have experience of using CA.
But if I have chance to review this product, I know where to look for 
problem ;)


Regards

tj



>From: "Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:01:06 -0500
>
>On 9/22/06, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>I really like to see how Hobbit compare to Tivoli,CA .. enterprise class
>>systems.
>>Management would like to see unbiased review of monitoring systems.
>
>Well, I can't really give you an unbiased view of CA, but I can tell
>you that as of the last time I looked (about 2 years ago), Unicenter's
>Web Monitoring Option (WMO) sucked big time.  I wrote up a long email
>rant fairly recently for a co-worker, which I won't repeat here, but
>just to hit some highlights:
>
>o The WMO agent crashes if you "click the icons too fast" - that's
>actual word-for-word from CA themselves.
>
>o If any checks are disabled, they automatically get re-enabled when
>the agent starts up.  See above point...
>
>o The reports show up on the Event Console with the nodename of the
>machine running the check, *not* the nodename with the problem.
>
>o The checks are written in a sort of XML format, and the builtin
>editor is nasty.
>
>o The check can execute an external program, but there's no way to
>pick up any output from it.  I needed that, obviously...
>
>OK, I'll stop there before my blood pressure gets any higher.
>
>The above was enough justification for my manager to scrap the "switch
>from Big Brother to WMO at all costs" plan.  So I'm still happily
>banging out Bourne shell scripts that use curl to grab web pages, with
>the reports being delivered to Hobbit.
>
>Ralph Mitchell
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