▸ quoted from Tim Rotunda
In <user-1d9c0edfe4c0@xymon.invalid> "Tim Rotunda" <user-f49ce0a7c125@xymon.invalid> writes:
Can I feed bb from a script (my own) or even C code to report back to
the server status of my own programs? Do I really need BB agents?
As long as you send messages to Hobbit (or BB) using the correct
protocol, it doesn't matter what you use to generate data. There
are a lot of scripts out there to monitor the status of different
things - hardware, databases, the weather, traffic information etc.
The BB agent is the fastest way to setup monitoring of a single server
at the OS level (check on cpu load, disk usage, processes and
logfiles) - simply because the agent already exists. But you are
definitely free to use whatever tool you like to find the data you
want to monitor.
Regards,
Henrik