Monitoring Solution
list Rafal Roginela
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. Thank You Rafal Roginela
list Josh Luthman
40GB is way more disk space then you will need. I am using 2.3GB out of a 72GB disk including OS and a few other applications. It has Hobbit data for a good 6 months now. You don't require too much "horsepower" to run Hobbit, it is a very quick and well written application. At home I have a 400MHz machine with 512MB of ram running a dozen or two hosts (most of which have the client) that well exceeds the hardware requirements. At this point in time there is no real solid redundant solution, though, if you look back in the archives you'll find it is being worked on. Make sure your hardware is good! Josh On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Rafal Roginela
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<user-744e62462615@xymon.invalid> 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. Thank You Rafal Roginela
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list Joe Sloan
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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
list Josh Luthman
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.
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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
-- Josh Luthman Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX XXXX Wayne St Suite XXXX Troy, OH XXXXX Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer
list Joe Sloan
I'm not anti-gui for security reasons, most of our servers are SLES with full on gui, blue skies, no problems. However for low-spec machines, I like ubuntu server, since it is all business and no gui, but has the wonderful debian package management capabilities which make life so much easier for sys admins. Joe
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Josh Luthman wrote: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
list Rafal Roginela
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
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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
-- Josh Luthman Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX XXXX Wayne St Suite XXXX Troy, OH XXXXX Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer