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Hi guys!

I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base on our company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information about the minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't seem to find it into the internet. Anyone who has this info?

Right now, Our hobbit server is installed in a Clone Desktop PC with P4 Dual Core (1.6 GHz), 80 GB of HDD, and 1GB of RAM. It runs pretty fast since it just monitors about 30 clients.

But what I need is the minimum hardware requirement just for the sake of documentation.If you know this one, kindly share.

By the way,  thanks to all of you guys who gave me some help and advise when I presented Hobbit to my boss, it is now official that we will use Hobbit for our server monitoring.

Regards,

Ryan

Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote :

It depends on the number of clients, but a 5 years old box will make you
happy up to, say, 1000 clients. (Henrik has a 3000+ boxes setup hosted
on a (very) old Sun server).

In fact, the real hotspot is the hard drive, if you encounter lots of
status changes and graph much data. Get fast hard drives.

I have a nice 2x Xeon 3.2GHz with SCSI drives, it show idle 90% of the
time, and 6% waiting for IO.

Regards,

-- 
Charles Goyard - user-a6cdca7046e2@xymon.invalid - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31
Orange Business Services - online multimedia  // ingénierie

Hi

I can't tell you what minimum spec is, but I know my first production installation of Hobbit was on a $0.00 budget.
I couldn't get any management buy-in for a monitoring system. (This changed once they saw Hobbit in action).

I ran Hobbit on a notebook I built from scavenged components in our "scrap" pile.
It was a P3 800, with 256Mb of RAM. I installed Mandrake (Mandriva) Linux on it.
OK, we never had that many servers we were monitoring, but you could use that as a minimum spec. It did run, and I don't think CPU utilisation ever went much over 10%.

Anybody out there used something of lower spec?

Regards
      Vernon


Charles Goyard <user-a6cdca7046e2@xymon.invalid> wrote on 17/09/2007 03:21:58 PM:

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user-527f88d7eddb@xymon.invalid> wrote:

It's not much lower, but I've got a Compaq DL380 with a single 733MHz P3
cpu and 512Mb memory.  I got lucky with  the disks - four 18Gb disks with
hardware RAID presenting them as one mirrored 36Gb disk.  Right now, the
bbgen page shows:

   bbgen for Hobbit version 4.2.0

   Statistics:
    Hosts               :   903
    Status messages     :  3574
    Purple messages     :     0
    Pages               :    40


There are only 895 unique hosts, as some a listed several times.  Roughly
3000 of the status messages are generated on the server itself, because it
is almost exclusively doing web page monitoring using custom scripts.  That
would be why the server's own cpu load graph shows a 5.7 average...  :)

It is running RedHat 7.2, and has been down for maintenance about 4 times in
7 years - once to be installed in the rack (after running for a year in my
cube), once when its power supply died, once when the building UPS was down
for maintenance, and once when I was screwing around with kernel modules.

Ralph Mitchell

I was running Big Brother (much more CPU intensive) on an IBM 43P under
AIX 5.1.  192 MB memory, 9.6 GB disk, 233 MHz single cpu. This was
monitoring about 10 tests each on something over 50 hosts and doing
network tests on another 50 routers and switches.

In addition, it was running cricket 1.04
(http://cricket.sourceforge.net/) for the same 50 routers and switches.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Jay B. Lapuz [mailto:user-945139049f37@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 3:05 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement

Hi guys!

I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base on
our company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information about the minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't seem to find
it into the internet. Anyone who has this info?

Right now, Our hobbit server is installed in a Clone Desktop PC with P4
Dual Core (1.6 GHz), 80 GB of HDD, and 1GB of RAM. It runs pretty fast since
it just monitors about 30 clients.

But what I need is the minimum hardware requirement just for the sake of

documentation.If you know this one, kindly share.

By the way,  thanks to all of you guys who gave me some help and advise
when I presented Hobbit to my boss, it is now official that we will use
Hobbit for our server monitoring.

Regards,

Ryan 

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Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote:

My suggestion:  If this is a "funded project", that is to say, something
that your company is willing to spend money on, you can consider the
minimum hardware requirement to be "The smallest new server you can buy
from your preferred hardware vendor".  I wouldn't run a production
monitoring system on something that doesn't have hardware support.

For example, my company has a lot of Dell logos in the datacenter.  The
smallest "Enterprise" Dell server is currently the PowerEdge 860,
out-of-the box in a minimal config, it has a 3GHz pentium D, 1GB of ram,
and a single 80GB hard drive. (and list price according to Dell's public
website is $2300 + change, including a 1-year RHEL subscription)

So as of today, I would write up the minimum hardware requirement as "1
3GHz CPU, 1GB ram, and 80 GB Hard drive space".  That's more than
sufficient for most hobbit installations.

My $0.02
--Joe

Thanks guys!

I have another question. Just now, Hobbit reported that our DNS server is 
down as well as its Conn service, and other services went white (clear: no 
data).
I checked our DNS server and nothing seems to be wrong.
Then I found out that the one of our technician conflicted the IP Address of 
our Hobbit server.
I just don't understand why only our DNS server reported some errors while 
there are other servers that are under monitor by that Hobbit server. Is 
there a connection with the DNS check of Hobbit server to our DNS server?

Thanks again and regards,
Ryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moore, Joe" <user-ee98968d771d@xymon.invalid>
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:45 PM
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement


Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote:

My suggestion:  If this is a "funded project", that is to say, something
that your company is willing to spend money on, you can consider the
minimum hardware requirement to be "The smallest new server you can buy
from your preferred hardware vendor".  I wouldn't run a production
monitoring system on something that doesn't have hardware support.

For example, my company has a lot of Dell logos in the datacenter.  The
smallest "Enterprise" Dell server is currently the PowerEdge 860,
out-of-the box in a minimal config, it has a 3GHz pentium D, 1GB of ram,
and a single 80GB hard drive. (and list price according to Dell's public
website is $2300 + change, including a 1-year RHEL subscription)

So as of today, I would write up the minimum hardware requirement as "1
3GHz CPU, 1GB ram, and 80 GB Hard drive space".  That's more than
sufficient for most hobbit installations.

My $0.02
--Joe

Hi.

I run a couple of hobbit servers only on VMWare machines with 256MB of dedicated RAM. That seems to be plenty for me, so basicly anything goes so long as you can configure the linux system to work properly.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Moore, Joe [mailto:user-ee98968d771d@xymon.invalid] Sent: 18. september 2007 13:46
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement

Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote:

My suggestion:  If this is a "funded project", that is to say, something that your company is willing to spend money on, you can consider the minimum hardware requirement to be "The smallest new server you can buy from your preferred hardware vendor".  I wouldn't run a production monitoring system on something that doesn't have hardware support.

For example, my company has a lot of Dell logos in the datacenter.  The smallest "Enterprise" Dell server is currently the PowerEdge 860, out-of-the box in a minimal config, it has a 3GHz pentium D, 1GB of ram, and a single 80GB hard drive. (and list price according to Dell's public website is $2300 + change, including a 1-year RHEL subscription)

So as of today, I would write up the minimum hardware requirement as "1 3GHz CPU, 1GB ram, and 80 GB Hard drive space".  That's more than sufficient for most hobbit installations.

My $0.02
--Joe