Thank you both for the reply. I'm using Centos for our current
environment at my day job with Hobbit working really well. Just probing
to make sure that I'm thinking it out and getting ideas as I want to be
in a position to make an image of the PC and if something happens to the
hardware, re-image replacement hardware and drop in the few config files
for hobbit that matter (bb-hosts, alerts, etc) and be back up and
running quickly. I want to make sure that I'm not over thinking things
and forgetting something really obvious. Thank you.
Rafal Roginela
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 1:50 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Solution
Personally I am very anti-GUI on a server machine (X insecurities,
extra load, etc). I use CentOS 5.1 with no GUI on my above mentioned
server.
Josh
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Sloan <user-b1d2c84d244b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Rafal Roginela wrote:
Hi all,
Need some advice please and maybe a walkthrough if someone has
already
done this. Here is what I am trying to accomplish:
I have my own company and I want to use Hobbit to monitor my clients
system. I want to use a small factor pc for this and I found one that
is
small and requires little power although still offers the familiarity
of a
standard PC (Shuttle K45). What I need help with is settling on a
Linux
distro that is somewhat compact and easy to get working with Hobbit.
I will
be limited to a small HD (by small I mean <40 GB ;-) and 512 Mb of
RAM. I'm
looking to build a rock solid install that can be replicated in it's
base
form and then customized a little here and there to suit the needs
for that
particular clients and I'm talking Small business maybe 2 servers
(all
windows at the moment) at most and some network devices for
uptime(printers
and such). Any help would be very appreciated. Also if you think that
hobbit
may be overkill for this job and have a better suggestion then I'm
open to
that too.
For limited RAM like your situation, I'd put a no-frills distro like
ubuntu
server on the box - and FWIW the 8.04 LTS edition which just came out
will
be supported until 2013.
Joe
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