At EDS I was told to switch from Big Brother/Hobbit to CA Unicenter. The
component of Unicenter that watches web pages was called CA-Wiley, and I
just couldn't make it work the same as my bash scripts. Someone from the
Integration team offered to help, so I sent the requirement doc to them.
The Wiley XML script they came back with had a fatal flaw - a hard-wired
date. I told them, "In six months that date becomes invalid, the test will
fail and nobody will know why. It needs to be dynamically calculated."
Nope, never got an answer on that one. Also, the Wiley display app would
crash if people "clicked the buttons too fast" (known fault, admitted by
CA) *and* it would then forget which tests were disabled...
My current employer is beginning to push SolarWinds. That requires a Java
app to be installed on the clients, instead of a couple of scripts. Main
reason for the change seems to be "it looks prettier, and management likes
pretty things." We'll see how that works out.
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:39 AM John Thurston <user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I've seen similar scenarios over the last twenty years. But because our
Big Brother (now Xymon) was so simple to run, we suggested it just
continue to run in parallel while the new solution was completed, and
our workflow and business processes were updated.
You can guess the rest.
--
Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid
Department of Administration
State of Alaska
On 4/30/2019 4:24 AM, user-15513f33c451@xymon.invalid wrote:We had also switched to a new
fangled, whiz-bang monitoring solution and it just-- wasn't-- working
out.
We finally decided to pull the plug and switch back to Xymon because it
just friggin' works.