Hobbit vs Nagios

Since you are talking just a few systems. You could try this agentless idea that was mentioned way back.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/01/msg00045.html

I just tried it on a PPC embedded linux device which has limited command functionality. The basics are working for cpu, disk, ports and procs. Procs I had to echo a fake header, but it is listing the processes and checking what should be running. And now memory. I had to re-format the output with sed. 7 of the 8 Graphs seem to work properly. I got it to do more then I expected. If I needed msgs, I probably could have found a way.

John

Hubbard, Greg L wrote:

Well, that's that.

My problem is that I have a few systems that I want to monitor that are
either old, or singletons, or both.  In my particular case it is and
elderly one-of-a-kind system.

I understand your reluctance to maintain two source trees.  If you can
write C, you can write Perl, and probably run rings around most Perl
hackers.

Thanks anyway!

GLH

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 4:12 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:18:17AM -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:

I heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional client that does not have to be compiled.  Don't know if this is true, but it would sure help me

out if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell" client that I could use

on the one or two systems where I cannot install all the junk needed to compile a Hobbit client binary.  Binary Perl distributions that just drop in are usually available...  I know there would be a performance hit, but I would rather have a more expensive-to-run client than no client.

Thoughts?

The only tools you need for building a Hobbit client are a C compiler
and GNU make. Period.

Combined with the fact that you can compile the client on one system,
wrap it up in a tar-file and install it on all of the other systems, I
really don't think this is a big issue. I've already had a couple of
people offering their pre-built clients for various platforms for
download, so I expect that once the 4.2 release is out, there will
quickly be ready-to-run binaries available for download.

I really don't want to have two separate implementations of the same
utility. Especially not one that I will not be able to maintain - I am
about as good at Perl programming as the proverbial monkey.


Regards,
Henrik