[hobbit] Suitability for bb replacement in large enterprise

[Buchan Milne]

On Sunday 07 December 2008 12:46:14 Dominique Frise wrote:
> Joe Sloan wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I learned about hobbit a couple years back, and I've been using it in
> > some small shops, but I'm hoping to be able to deploy it for my main
> > employer.
> >
> > At my day job, we've been using the old big brother 1.9e plus bbgen-3.5
> > to monitor hundreds of unix and windows servers spread across 2 data
> > centers. Id like to move to hobbit, but it is important that it be able
> > to do what bb does. For the most part it is better than bb, but I have 2
> > specific areas of concern:
> >
> > 1. snmp traps: Our netcool ticketing system relies on snmp traps from
> > big brother whenever there is a significant event.
>
> We use the elegant method from Andy Farrior :
> http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html

This is the wrong way around though, it adds support for Hobbit reporting on 
snmp traps sent by other devices, not for sending SNMP traps for alerts.

However, it should be relatively easy to make an alerting script to plug into 
Hobbit to send traps.

The biggest requirement for someone to be able to test such a script 
compatible with the BB feature would be the MIB file used by BB ...

Regards,
Buchan