On 2/7/07, PAUL WILLIAMSON <user-b9fa55f5c833@xymon.invalid> wrote:
user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid 02/07/07 9:50 AM >>>
I don't know about the recent versions of TNG, but back in 1998
TNG-2.1 (2.0 maybe?) took around 40 minutes to bring up the 2D
map.
It only takes about 20 minutes now, and it defaults back to the
view it wants to show you every time.
To be fair, we did have about 40,000 objects in the database.
I only have Hobbit's client-side running on a few of my own servers,
because my own PHBs have decreed that TNG is the only monitoring
tool to use. Oh, and NetCool. Oh, and BMC Patrol Oh, and
HPOpenView. Oh, and Mercury. Oh, and OnCentauri...
Funny that should come up. We've gotten BB (and slowly introducing
Hobbit) and Netcool very well integrated. It makes the PHBs happy,
both because they don't have to spend tons of cash to replicate
BB/Hobbit, and they get their golf outings and other unnamed perks
paid for by the vendors.
I set up BB (v18b3) when I sat on the monitoring desk for a while.
The officially blessed tool is TNG, so it would be a question of
integrating BB/Hobbit reports into TNG, rather than the other way
around. If I *really* had to do it, my scripts could write a log file
for TNG to watch, instead of sending the the Hobbit status message.
I know at a previous job, I was told the only reason we went with
software from vendor X rather than vendor Y is because vendor X
could get us tickets to every home Baltimore Orioles game. I couldn't
believe someone was willing to actually say that.
I've heard of golf games changing PHBs minds.
Ralph Mitchell