[hobbit] Hobbit not recognizing certain tests?

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:07:31AM -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> Being familiar with both Netcool and Hobbit, I would never consider
> replacing Netcool trap management with Hobbit.  Netcool processes traps
> in "near real time" and scales quite large.  Hobbit does not provide
> real time monitoring (default is 5 minute samples, with 1 minute screen
> updates).

There is nothing inherent in Hobbit that prevents it from doing
real-time handling of events. Hobbit processes events as soon as it
is told about them; the fact that some types of information is only
checked once every 5 minutes is not something that necessarily applies
to everything Hobbit monitors.

I havent looked at Andy's trap script, but if I were to implement
SNMP trap handling in Hobbit, I'd start off with snmptrapd from the
Net-SNMP tools - this receives snmp traps, and can be configured to
do "something" when a trap arrives. That "something" would then be
a script/utility that grabs the hostname and trap type from the trap
information, and feeds that into Hobbit as a status update. That will
give you an immediate alert, and a status change in the Hobbit display
if you use the "Critical systems" view which is dynamically generated.

I'm not throwing rocks at Netcool <grin> but I just want to make it clear
that Hobbit can be as real-time as you want it to - it's only a matter
of feeding it data as quickly as you possible.


Regards,
Henrik