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list Neil Franken · Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:32:00 +0200 ·
Hi Guys

 
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by
Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  He now
wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways. I know there used to
be a list somewhere if not mistaken at the
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_List or something like
that. I just can't seem to find it.

 
Regards

Neil
list H. Klomp · Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:08:13 +0200 ·
The new list can be found at:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/User_Guide/The_Xymon_Users_list

Regards,

B Klomp
quoted from Neil Franken

From: Neil Franken [mailto:user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: maandag 29 juni 2009 8:32
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

Hi Guys

Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system. I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this list maybe he will realize the error of his ways. I know there used to be a list somewhere if not mistaken at the http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_List or something like that. I just can't seem to find it.


Regards
Neil


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list Buchan Milne · Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:11:47 +0200 ·
quoted from Neil Franken
On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by
Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  He now
wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a cost effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may not necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are happy to work with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the monitoring requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide against you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into account, and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify them and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan
list David Peters · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:14:40 +1000 ·
I would agree entirely. Having managed an IT Operations section of around 120 IT staff, I had the same issue with my CIO. Forget about the tool and go and spec the requirements (or help spec them). Then lay down the alternatives. One of the advantages of hobbit is that you can demo it at no cost and very little time. Manager's dont like to spend money if they dont have to, but at the same time are averse to risk so do not want to go down a path that may cost them money and time. I small demo of Hobbit (or if you already have it running ) may prove to be the clincher.

OTOH, if another tool provides the features that hobbit cant without extensive effort then hobbit may not be the answer. (I am now ducking behind my desk in order to avoid the flames).


David Peters

+61 2 63913565
+61 4 17863572


From:
Buchan Milne <user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid>
To:
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc:
"Neil Franken" <user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid>
Date:
29/06/2009 07:16 PM
Subject:
Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.
quoted from Neil Franken


On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by
Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  He now
wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a cost effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may not necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are happy to work with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the monitoring requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide against you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into account, and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify them and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run Hobbit/Xymon 
(and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan


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list Ralph Mitchell · Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:11:17 -0500 ·
Where I last worked, the company is managing a lot of webservers and other
servers for airlines, travel companies, etc.  One reason given for not using
free/open source things is that they're not backed by a multi-million dollar
company with support contracts and so on.  They like to show off the NOC and
Enterprise Command Centers to prospective customers and point out the
various monitors by CA, HP and other big names.
Ralph Mitchell
quoted from David Peters


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, <user-762f8f482193@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I would agree entirely. Having managed an IT Operations section of around
120 IT staff, I had the same issue with my CIO. Forget about the tool and go
and spec the requirements (or help spec them). Then lay down the
alternatives. One of the advantages of hobbit is that you can demo it at no
cost and very little time. Manager's dont like to spend money if they dont
have to, but at the same time are averse to risk so do not want to go down a
path that may cost them money and time. I small demo of Hobbit (or if you
already have it running ) may prove to be the clincher.

OTOH, if another tool provides the features that hobbit cant without
extensive effort then hobbit may not be the answer. (I am now ducking behind
my desk in order to avoid the flames).


David Peters

+61 2 63913565
+61 4 17863572


 From: Buchan Milne <user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid> To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Cc: "Neil
Franken" <user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid> Date: 29/06/2009 07:16 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by
Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  He now
wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a
cost
effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may
not
necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are happy to
work
with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once they are documented,

show that you can satisfy all the monitoring requirements with a lower
cost,
and no businessman will decide against you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into
account,
and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify
them
and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run Hobbit/Xymon
(and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used Hobbit for
monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan


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list Vernon Everett · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:37:28 +0800 ·
Unfortunately, I agree with Buchan on this.

You need to remember, the purpose of IT is to provide solutions, not run preferred software. And this cuts both ways.
You can't run Hobbit just because you like it.
But by the same token, your PHB can't run his commercial stuff, just because he likes it.
It needs to provide a solution to a business need.

One of the things you might find yourself up against, is that Hobbit doesn't have "Golf days" with free booze, and fancy cocktail parties and product launches with open bar tabs, goodie-bags and other junkets that the big vendors can provide.
And, for the morally elastic PHB, this is the clincher, not the quality of the solution.

Good luck.

Regards
    V
quoted from Buchan Milne


-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 5:12 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a cost effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may not necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are happy to work with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the monitoring requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide against you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into account, and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify them and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan


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list T.J. Yang · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:44:05 -0500 ·
quoted from Vernon Everett
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:32:00 +0200
From: user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Wanna show off.
Hi Guys
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is
being monitored by Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS
mania. He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring
system. I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways. I know there used to be a
list somewhere if not mistaken at the http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_List
or something like that. I just can’t seem to find it.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_list

There are some big company using xymon but there are not listed in the list.

tj
Regards


Neil

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list Craig Cook · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:48:01 -0400 ·
list T.J. Yang · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:54:43 -0500 ·
quoted from Ralph Mitchell
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:11:17 -0500
From: user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

Where I last worked, the company is managing a lot of webservers and other servers for airlines, travel companies, etc. One reason given for not using free/open source things is that they're not backed by a multi-million dollar company with support contracts and so on. They like to show off the NOC and Enterprise Command Centers to prospective customers and point out the various monitors by CA, HP and other big names.
This is one of xymon drawbacks to compete with other System Monitoring solutions.
This point is a valid business concern. We really need to persuade Henrik(or others) to setup a xymon support company. I will be the first to buy the technical support. 

tj
quoted from Ralph Mitchell
Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM,> wrote:


I would agree entirely. Having managed
an IT Operations section of around 120 IT staff, I had the same issue with
my CIO. Forget about the tool and go and spec the requirements (or help
spec them). Then lay down the alternatives. One of the advantages of hobbit
is that you can demo it at no cost and very little time. Manager's dont
like to spend money if they dont have to, but at the same time are averse
to risk so do not want to go down a path that may cost them money and time.
I small demo of Hobbit (or if you already have it running ) may prove to
be the clincher.


OTOH, if another tool provides the features
that hobbit cant without extensive effort then hobbit may not be the answer.
(I am now ducking behind my desk in order to avoid the flames).


David Peters


+61 2 63913565

+61 4 17863572


From:
Buchan Milne>


To:
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


Cc:
"Neil Franken">
quoted from Vernon Everett


Date:
29/06/2009 07:16 PM


Subject:
Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:

Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored
by
Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania. He
now
wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.

From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.


Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in
a cost

effective manner.


So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may
not

necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are happy to
work

with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once they are documented,


show that you can satisfy all the monitoring requirements with a lower
cost,

and no businessman will decide against you.


Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into account,


and have actually satisfied them.


If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify
them

and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.


I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run Hobbit/Xymon


(and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used Hobbit for

monitoring components of the network ...


I can give you some more examples off-list.


Regards,

Buchan


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list Denis · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:21:46 +0200 ·
I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.
We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.
Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty access to only some parts of the web console.
So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model between entreprise and community product.
i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need to admit that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities yet

Reagds,

Denis
quoted from T.J. Yang

Everett, Vernon wrote:
Unfortunately, I agree with Buchan on this.

You need to remember, the purpose of IT is to provide solutions, not run preferred software. And this cuts both ways.
You can't run Hobbit just because you like it.
But by the same token, your PHB can't run his commercial stuff, just because he likes it.
It needs to provide a solution to a business need.

One of the things you might find yourself up against, is that Hobbit doesn't have "Golf days" with free booze, and fancy cocktail parties and product launches with open bar tabs, goodie-bags and other junkets that the big vendors can provide.
And, for the morally elastic PHB, this is the clincher, not the quality of the solution.

Good luck.

Regards
    V


-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 5:12 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:

  
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
    
From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a cost effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may not necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are happy to work with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the monitoring requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide against you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into account, and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify them and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan


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list Ulric Eriksson · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:37:16 +0200 (CEST) ·
quoted from Denis
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Denis wrote:
Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty access to only some parts of the web console.
So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model between entreprise and community product.
That's hardly necessary. We do exactly what you describe with a front-end web server and a couple of scripts. I suppose that you have some database mapping resources to customers.

I can't publish the scripts for obvious reasons.

Ulric
list David Peters · Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:43:40 +1000 ·
Do you mean certain functions, or certain hosts. Either way, we do both and the authentication is done to the AD domain so you use your normal passwords and userid's.

David Peters

+61 2 63913565
+61 4 17863572


From:
Denis <user-41ff130ea0ee@xymon.invalid>
To:
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Date:
01/07/2009 12:37 AM
quoted from Denis
Subject:
Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.
We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.
Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty access to only some parts of the web console.
So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model between entreprise and community product.
i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need to admit that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities yet

Reagds,

Denis

Everett, Vernon wrote: Unfortunately, I agree with Buchan on this.

You need to remember, the purpose of IT is to provide solutions, not run preferred software. And this cuts both ways.
You can't run Hobbit just because you like it.
But by the same token, your PHB can't run his commercial stuff, just because he likes it.
It needs to provide a solution to a business need.

One of the things you might find yourself up against, is that Hobbit doesn't have "Golf days" with free booze, and fancy cocktail parties and product launches with open bar tabs, goodie-bags and other junkets that the big vendors can provide.
And, for the morally elastic PHB, this is the clincher, not the quality of the solution.

Good luck.

Regards
    V


-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 5:12 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:

 Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored by Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania. He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
 
From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a cost effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may not necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are happy to work with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the monitoring requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide against you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into account, and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify them and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan


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list Neil Franken · Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:04:26 +0200 ·
Hi Guys

 
I do realize that we need to provide business with solutions instead of
preffered software. We are a small organization growing fast. So
currently I am monitoring 15 servers with Xymon. I have been able to
customize xymon to show me SQL user connections, SQL transactions per
second and all the other good stuff. However the new HOD has decided
that open source is rubbish. He hates it and does not want any open
source products on the site. I have approached my CTO about this as it
seems we are being forced to use solutions that this guy has some
experience with. IMHO use the best tool for the job. Xymon is perfect
when I started here there was no monitoring in place. With Xymon's help
I took a severely unstable SQL environment to something that actually
runs smoothly. 

 
Anyway once again thanks for the input. I just needed to show my CTO
that this is not just some small time mickey mouse monitoring system.

 
Regards

Neil
quoted from David Peters

 
From: user-762f8f482193@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-762f8f482193@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 01 July 2009 01:44 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

 
Do you mean certain functions, or certain hosts. Either way, we do both
and the authentication is done to the AD domain so you use your normal
passwords and userid's. 

David Peters

+61 2 63913565
+61 4 17863572


From: 

Denis <user-41ff130ea0ee@xymon.invalid> 

To: 

user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid 

Date: 

01/07/2009 12:37 AM 

Subject: 

Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

 
I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.
We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.
Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty
access to only some parts of the web console.
So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model
between entreprise and community product.
i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need to
admit that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities
yet

Reagds,

Denis

Everett, Vernon wrote: 
Unfortunately, I agree with Buchan on this.

You need to remember, the purpose of IT is to provide solutions, not run
preferred software. 
And this cuts both ways.
You can't run Hobbit just because you like it.
But by the same token, your PHB can't run his commercial stuff, just
because he likes it.
It needs to provide a solution to a business need.

One of the things you might find yourself up against, is that Hobbit
doesn't have "Golf days" with free booze, and fancy cocktail parties and
product launches with open bar tabs, goodie-bags and other junkets that
the big vendors can provide.
And, for the morally elastic PHB, this is the clincher, not the quality
of the solution.

Good luck.

Regards
   V


-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid> ] 
Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 5:12 PM

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> 
quoted from David Peters
Cc: Neil Franken
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.

On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken wrote:

  
Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company is being monitored 
by Xymon but we have a new manager here that suffers from MS mania.  
He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new monitoring
system.
I am not going to back down without a fight so if I can show him this 
list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.
    

From a business perspective, there may not be an error in his ways.

Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their requirements are met in a
cost effective manner.

So, I would start out from the standpoint that your monitoring tools may
not necessarily satisfy the business requirements, and that you are
happy to work with him to document the monitoring requirements. Once
they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the monitoring
requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide against
you.

Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the business needs into
account, and have actually satisfied them.

If there are any monitoring requirements you don't meet yet ... identify
them and let's see if we can provide options, before you have to report.

I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run
Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa used
Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...

I can give you some more examples off-list.

Regards,
Buchan


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list Buchan Milne · Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:58:52 +0200 ·
quoted from Denis
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 16:21:46 Denis wrote:
I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.
We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.
Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty
access to only some parts of the web console.
So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model
between entreprise and community product.
i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need to
admit that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities yet
1)I think it should actually be quite easy to workaround this by having different areas in separate files, and including them into the main bb-hosts file, running bb-gen for each include file separately (to set a different cgi path), and multiple scriptalias statements to the usual CGIs, with SetEnv used inside the location to set the correct BBHOSTS variable (and do the authorization on the apache side).

2)This feature is on the roadmap for 4.5 I think

3)This is something that could be implemented without any changes to any core Xymon code. I haven't had time to start a web interface, but if we can get a few people to agree on the architecture, I am sure we can have something working without too much effort or time.

Regards,
Buchan
list T.J. Yang · Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:23:30 -0500 ·
Every time I see this kind help request, I feel bad that one need to argue/fight alone to use xymon as your system monitoring solution. 

In R1, I was preparing a series of slides, in the hope to help one present Xymon's case.
This slide project is less important to me now since my site is using xymon. That is why the alpha slides was modified 7 months ago. Anyone willing to help ?


R1: http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/sandbox/tjyang/docs/xymon-slides/

T.J. Yang
quoted from Neil Franken

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:04:26 +0200
From: user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


Hi Guys


I do realize that we need to provide business
with solutions instead of preffered software. We are a small organization
growing fast. So currently I am monitoring 15 servers with Xymon. I have been
able to customize xymon to show me SQL user connections, SQL transactions per
second and all the other good stuff. However the new HOD has decided that open
source is rubbish. He hates it and does not want any open source products on
the site. I have approached my CTO about this as it seems we are being forced
to use solutions that this guy has some experience with. IMHO use the best tool
for the job. Xymon is perfect when I started here there was no monitoring in
place. With Xymon’s help I took a severely unstable SQL environment to
something that actually runs smoothly.


Anyway once again thanks for the input. I
just needed to show my CTO that this is not just some small time mickey mouse
monitoring system.


Regards


Neil


From:
user-762f8f482193@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-762f8f482193@xymon.invalid]

Sent: 01 July 2009 01:44 AM

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid

Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show
off.


Do you mean certain functions, or certain hosts. Either
way, we do both and the authentication is done to the AD domain so you use your
normal passwords and userid's.


David Peters


+61 2 63913565

+61 4 17863572


From:


Denis


To:


user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


Date:


01/07/2009 12:37 AM


Subject:


Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.

We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.

Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty access to
only some parts of the web console.

So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model between
entreprise and community product.

i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need to admit
that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities yet


Reagds,


Denis


Everett, Vernon
wrote:

Unfortunately, I agree with Buchan
on this.


You need to remember, the purpose of IT is to
provide solutions, not run preferred software.

And this cuts both ways.

You can't run Hobbit just because you like it.

But by the same token, your PHB can't run his
commercial stuff, just because he likes it.

It needs to provide a solution to a business need.


One of the things you might find yourself up
against, is that Hobbit doesn't have "Golf days" with free booze, and
fancy cocktail parties and product launches with open bar tabs, goodie-bags and
other junkets that the big vendors can provide.

And, for the morally elastic PHB, this is the
clincher, not the quality of the solution.


Good luck.


Regards

V


-----Original Message-----

From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]

Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 5:12 PM

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid

Cc: Neil Franken

Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken
wrote:


Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company
is being monitored

by Xymon but we have a new manager here that
suffers from MS mania.

He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars
on a new monitoring system.

I am not going to back down without a fight so if
I can show him this

list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.


From a business perspective, there may not be an
error in his ways.


Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their
requirements are met in a cost effective manner.


So, I would start out from the standpoint that
your monitoring tools may not necessarily satisfy the business requirements,
and that you are happy to work with him to document the monitoring
requirements. Once they are documented, show that you can satisfy all the
monitoring requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will decide
against you.


Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the
business needs into account, and have actually satisfied them.


If there are any monitoring requirements you don't
meet yet ... identify them and let's see if we can provide options, before you
have to report.


I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run
Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa
used Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...


I can give you some more examples off-list.


Regards,

Buchan


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list Neil Franken · Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:23:49 +0200 ·
Hi All

Xymon is on and rolling out full time into production here. The new HOD
is starting his conversion to *Nix and I am happy that we not spending
the money as this translate into a better profit share for me. 

Thanks for all the input and help from the various people on the list.

Regards
Neil
quoted from T.J. Yang

-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 01 July 2009 02:24 PM
To: hobbit system monitoring
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


Every time I see this kind help request, I feel bad that one need to
argue/fight alone to use xymon as your system monitoring solution. 

In R1, I was preparing a series of slides, in the hope to help one
present Xymon's case.
This slide project is less important to me now since my site is using
xymon. That is why the alpha slides was modified 7 months ago. Anyone
willing to help ?


R1:

http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/sandbox/tjyang/doc
s/xymon-slides/
quoted from T.J. Yang

T.J. Yang

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:04:26 +0200
From: user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


Hi Guys


I do realize that we need to provide business
with solutions instead of preffered software. We are a small
organization
growing fast. So currently I am monitoring 15 servers with Xymon. I
have been
able to customize xymon to show me SQL user connections, SQL
transactions per
second and all the other good stuff. However the new HOD has decided
that open
source is rubbish. He hates it and does not want any open source
products on
the site. I have approached my CTO about this as it seems we are being
forced
to use solutions that this guy has some experience with. IMHO use the
best tool
for the job. Xymon is perfect when I started here there was no
monitoring in
place. With Xymon's help I took a severely unstable SQL environment to
something that actually runs smoothly.


Anyway once again thanks for the input. I
just needed to show my CTO that this is not just some small time
mickey mouse
monitoring system.


Regards


Neil


From:
user-762f8f482193@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-762f8f482193@xymon.invalid]

Sent: 01 July 2009 01:44 AM

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid

Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show
off.


Do you mean certain functions, or certain hosts. Either
way, we do both and the authentication is done to the AD domain so you
use your
normal passwords and userid's.


David Peters


+61 2 63913565

+61 4 17863572


From:


Denis


To:


user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


Date:


01/07/2009 12:37 AM


Subject:


Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


I totally agree and have an example : the company where i work.

We monitor 4 datacenters with it and it work great.

Sadly, hobbit hasn't the possibility to create profiles and granty
access to
only some parts of the web console.

So we are thinking to move on another product, preferably in a model
between
entreprise and community product.

i'm sad we can't wait the new releases of xymon coming... but we need
to admit
that hobbit, however good it is, has not thoses functionalities yet


Reagds,


Denis


Everett, Vernon
wrote:

Unfortunately, I agree with Buchan
on this.


You need to remember, the purpose of IT is to
provide solutions, not run preferred software.

And this cuts both ways.

You can't run Hobbit just because you like it.

But by the same token, your PHB can't run his
commercial stuff, just because he likes it.

It needs to provide a solution to a business need.


One of the things you might find yourself up
against, is that Hobbit doesn't have "Golf days" with free booze, and
fancy cocktail parties and product launches with open bar tabs,
goodie-bags and
other junkets that the big vendors can provide.

And, for the morally elastic PHB, this is the
clincher, not the quality of the solution.


Good luck.


Regards

V


-----Original Message-----

From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]

Sent: Monday, 29 June 2009 5:12 PM

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid

Cc: Neil Franken

Subject: Re: [hobbit] Wanna show off.


On Monday 29 June 2009 08:32:00 Neil Franken
wrote:


Where can I find the Hobbit User list? Our company
is being monitored

by Xymon but we have a new manager here that
suffers from MS mania.

He now wants to spend a couple of thousand dollars
on a new monitoring system.

I am not going to back down without a fight so if
I can show him this

list maybe he will realize the error of his ways.


From a business perspective, there may not be an
error in his ways.


Frankly, a business needs to ensure that their
requirements are met in a cost effective manner.


So, I would start out from the standpoint that
your monitoring tools may not necessarily satisfy the business
requirements,
and that you are happy to work with him to document the monitoring
requirements. Once they are documented, show that you can satisfy all
the
monitoring requirements with a lower cost, and no businessman will
decide
against you.


Don't fight, cooperate to show that you take the
business needs into account, and have actually satisfied them.


If there are any monitoring requirements you don't
meet yet ... identify them and let's see if we can provide options,
before you
have to report.


I can however note that at least two ISPs in South Africa run
Hobbit/Xymon (and Devmon). A recent sporting event in South Africa
used Hobbit for monitoring components of the network ...


I can give you some more examples off-list.


Regards,

Buchan


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list Joe Sloan · Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:47:34 -0700 ·
quoted from Neil Franken
Neil Franken wrote:
Hi All

Xymon is on and rolling out full time into production here. The new HOD
is starting his conversion to *Nix and I am happy that we not spending
the money as this translate into a better profit share for me. 
  
That's great news, congrats!

Joe