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

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 3/22/07, Sebastian Auriol <sp...@sy...> wrote:

> 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
>

Sebastian,

  The point was that SNMP is a widely accepted network standard that
is supported everywhere - both on the monitoring/polling/trap host and
the client.  Asterisk 1.4 even has an SNMP agent built in.

  The intelligence should be on the monitoring host - not on the
monitored client.  All the client should have to do is report vital
data to the monitoring host (where it can be recorded, graphed, etc).

  What is the data collection mechanism for Hobit on the monitored client?


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Kristian Kielhofner