HPUX Hobbit Client Issue 🔗 link

Hello there...

while looking out for a good infrastructure monitoring solution i noticed the new hobbit. It seems to be a good approach for that what i am needs.

However, as far as i am noticed, there is no client software, except those found at sourceforge, but i cant compile this stuff on my HPUX machines. Is there probably a way known by someone? Any tips? If not, is there a plan to develop client software for another platforms such HPUX or WINTEL?  I have to use BB clients at the moment, but i would prefer to use some kind of GPL software..

Greetings,

Anatoli Bogajewski

Anatoli,

Hobbit Central is a good alternative to a "client".  It runs on a local
server and reaches out to the remote servers collecting data and then
reporting back to the hobbit server.  The only problem is that it was
created for Big Brother and not Hobbit.  The solution, or so I thought,
was to port it, but that didn't work out for me so I wrote my own script
called hobcen, but it doesn't work well for a large number of remote
hosts, so I am rewriting it to support a large number of remote hosts
and I am writing it in C and not shell script for efficiency and sanity
reasons.

 
I am working on this now and I had hoped to have it out already, but
life has suddenly gotten in the way.   I should have something to
release in the next couple of weeks and will announce that when I am
ready.  Keep in mind, however, that there are security concerns with
using hobcen as is relies on a shared public key to make an ssh
connection so anyone that can get onto your hobbit server can get on
anywhere.  To some a minor concern, others a major one.

 
Tim

 
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:29 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] HPUX Hobbit Client Issue

 
Hello there... 

while looking out for a good infrastructure monitoring solution i
noticed the new hobbit. It seems to be a good approach for that what i
am needs. 

However, as far as i am noticed, there is no client software, except
those found at sourceforge, but i cant compile this stuff on my HPUX
machines. Is there probably a way known by someone? Any tips? If not, is
there a plan to develop client software for another platforms such HPUX
or WINTEL?  I have to use BB clients at the moment, but i would prefer
to use some kind of GPL software.. 

Greetings, 

Anatoli Bogajewski

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:28:37PM +0200, user-4d3800b5a33a@xymon.invalid wrote:

Glad to hear that :-)

The plan is definitely to develop client software to support the major
Unix variants (*BSD, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, possible AIX - these are
the ones I need to support myself). 

A Windows client is a rather different beast. It would definitely be
very useful, but I haven't done any real programming in the Windows
environment for almost 10 years, so it's not something that I would
just do.

Developing a Unix client is "only" a matter of getting enough free
time to actually do it. Right now, the focus is on the server side
since that really needs to be in place before working on clients makes
any sense.

We're working on it.


Regards,
Henrik