Hi, Ultric
Nice to see you speak up on hobbit windows client issue.
I didn't have a need to run hobbit client on windows at work thus I
wasn't paying too much attention on this subject.
I quickly browsed the src code at
http://mrbig.365-24.se/MrBig/Doc/Archive/Sources/MrBig-0.19.1/.
One question to you,
Does Mr. Big hobbit client support client side binary/module update
from central hobbit server ?
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:33 AM, <user-de31148ebe0c@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Citerar Neil Franken <user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid>:
some development for BBwin to monitor SQL Server specifics. While BBwin is
easy to use and quiet extensible I think it needs a major shot of new
development.
I think Hobbit needs *any* maintained Windows client. I am the author of the
Mr Big client, which I wrote for my previous employer. When I quit in April
I warned that since my new employer doesn't use Hobbit I would no longer
maintain the client, so they would eventually need to find a replacement for
me or a replacement for Mr Big.
As it is, the situation wrt monitoring Windows servers with Hobbit is:
- Big Brother client: costs $$$ and is ignored by Quest. Not an option.
Can you explain more about " BB client is ignored by Quest" part ?
Are you saying even one pay for bb windows client license, Quest is
still not provide good support on BB Client ?
- BBwin: abandoned in 2008.
I am not sure if BBWin got abandoned by the original author but I am
having hard time to reproduce a WinXP development box.
- Mr Big: relatively up to date, but currently unmaintained afaik.
I hope you still stick around in xymon community using your free time.
- Xymon.net: rumourware.
Mr Big is licensed under GPL, so if anybody wants to pick up development,
fork the code or whatever you are free to do so. It is pretty easy to set up
a cross-compiling environment using free Gnu tools. Contact me if you want
and/or need pointers.
If Mr Big is functional equivalent to BBwin, then I will roll you src
into main xymon src tree.
Using same src tree and dev machine to create binary for Unix(and
MacOSX) and Windows is a great time-saver for xymon development work.
Ulric
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T.J. Yang