Re: [Astlinux-users] Idea for new AstLinux package: Hobbit MonitorClient

[Sebastian A. <sp...@sy...>]

ast...@li... <> wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Sebastian Auriol <sp...@sy...> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It would be useful to have a system for monitoring AstLinux servers.
>> In particular I'd like the client part of Hobbit Monitor:
>> http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> Also useful would probably be SNMP (but that wouldn't have to be
>> implemented at the same time): 
>> 
>> Handling SNMP Traps with Hobbit
>> http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html
>> Or
>> Devmon: an SNMP device monitor.
>> http://devmon.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>> Of course I understand if this is too much to support.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Sebastian
>> 
> 
> Sebastian,
> 
>   What can this do that SNMP (running on AstLinux machine) and
> Cacti/MRTG/Nagios/OpenNMG can't?
> 
>   net-snmp is already available in AstLinux.

Kristian,

I am not very familiar with Cacti/MRTG/Nagios/OpenNMG, but let me see what
what I can find quickly (and from what I know):

* Cacti does not seem to have any alerting / alarming functionality
built-in.
* MRTG can work with hobbit and also does not seem to have any alerting /
alarming functionality built-in. You can use MRTG to collect the data and
feed it into a hobbit server for deciding what constitues an alarm and
alerting the appropriate person accordingly. However, given this, it _may_
be possible to use MRTG as a kind of substitute for hobbit client, while
still using hobbit server.
* Nagios does have similar functionality to Hobbit although there are no
nofication methods incorporated directly. I believe that it is much easier
to wrote custom tests scripts for hobbit (as any executable can work). I am
much more familiar with Big Brother (Hobbit's inspiration) and Hobbit then
Nagios though. I have been considering writing a notification system for
hobbit that uses Asterisk servers.
* OpenNMD returns just a few pages on Google - did you make a typo?
* Hobbit client returns information about various aspects of the system as
you can see on this live demo here (I have chosen a page which has
information from hobbit client - the conn and ssh columns are network tests
and not performed by the client):
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/servers/servers.html

net-snmp already being in AstLinux is nice.

Kind regards,

Sebastian