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

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

I'll reply inline below

Sebastian Auriol wrote:
> 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): 
>>>       
>>   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):
>
>
> * 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.
>   
Nagios is a pita to setup, but it can do alerting.
> * OpenNMD returns just a few pages on Google - did you make a typo?
>
>   
OpenNMS is what Kristian meant.
http://www.opennms.org/

Another one not mentions, but still powerful is Zabbix.  That's the one 
that I will be setting up in the next few weeks.

With all of these options that work with standard snmp, I see no reason 
to add a separate client app  to support Hobbit.  Are you sure that 
Hobbit can't work with snmp data? 

Darrick

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