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Understanding hobbit

list Stef Coene
Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:26:50 +0100
Message-Id: <user-794087c4b4ba@xymon.invalid>

On Monday 02 March 2009, Benedikt Kristinsson wrote:
Hello.

There are a few things I dont quite understand yet about hobbit and I
cant find anything that explains it in the docs so i better ask :)

In the hobbit "display", the webpage, the hobbit server itself is listed
with a few things i dont get on the other servers, like bbd, bbgen,
bbtest and hobbitd. These seem to provide interesting things though. I
have installed hobbit-client on the clients.
Like someone else explained, bb is/was used by BigBrother, Hobbit 
was 'BigBrother improved' and Xymon is the new name for Hobbit.

The xymon/hobbit server software running on your monitor server is reporting 
its status as bbd,bbgen, ...  What I do is changing MACHINEDOTS in 
hobbitserver.cfg to <hostname>-hobbit and add a entry
"<ip> <hostname>-hobbit # noconn bbd"
in bb-hosts.  So all the hobbit server checks are reported on a separate line.


Stef