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nagios vs hobbit

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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:28:56 -0500
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Daniel J McDonald wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:27 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
  
On Friday 17 October 2008 15:42:08 McDonald, Dan wrote:
    
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:05 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
      
On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:26:55 Shawn Heisey wrote:
        
Geoff Steer wrote:
          
 Every time I have to add a new monitor or get asked to graph
something, I keep thinking 'This would be so much easier with
hobbit!'
            
At my job, we're using two primary tools for network monitoring -
Hobbit and OpenNMS.  Hobbit is primarily for system monitoring, and
OpenNMS for network monitoring.
          
You mean for SNMP polling?

<plug>Have you tried devmon</plug>
        
I would, if it supported snmp V3...
      
It's on the to-do list. If you can test,     
Certainly.  I have many hundreds of snmp v3 enabled hosts.

  
I will try and implement soon. AFAIK, SNMP_Session supports snmpv3, so it should mostly be a configuration issue.
    
No, I had to re-write mrtg to support Net_SNMP_Session, which has mostly
the same API as SNMP_Session, with just a few tweaks.  Net_SNMP_Session
calls Net::SNMP, which has binaries from the NetSNMP project, so it's
not as portable.

  
(You could also file a bug on the sourceforge tracker, so I don't forget).
    
ok

  
(First 2 weeks are looking most promising for some real devmon development).

    
One more item I would like to add to the list of differences between Hobbit and Nagios, which is somewhat critical at one of my sites, is proxy options - Nagios has nrpe and/or nsca.  Something along the lines of having choices of different (push/pull) type proxy setups would be a big benefit for Hobbit, at least from my perspective.

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