The mailing list is very active. From what I've seen over the past few
weeks of listening in, there is a very competent bunch of people. Support
won't be immediate, but it will get you there.
I switched from the free version of Big Brother (which is not for corporate
use, legally) to Hobbit no more then a week ago. I have been extremely
pleased at the simplicity of the install and abundance of features and
upgrades. I too am using 4.2.0. Right out of the box I did a quick
install, duplicated my ~150 host bb-hosts file, added the testip argument
and I was up and running within the majority of my morning.
Depending on your host type you will find the enable/disable feature to be a
complete blessing. I most certainly have - some clients love to unplug
their network equipment!
There is absolutely no excuse to not move from BB1.9 to Hobbit 4.2. None.
On 10/9/07, Alan Sparks <user-8f2174fd8b66@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Chris Strzelczyk wrote:
Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my company which are
being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would
like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I
do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS
has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently
being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
Don't know if you received an answer to your question, but yes, Hobbit
is an active project. The mailing list is active, and the tool is very
much alive, used, and supported. It monitors 2000+ hosts at my business.
It may not look active from a release standpoint, but there is a planned
4.3 release soon. But 4.2 is a solid thing.
-Alan
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