bbwin patches
list Johan Booysen
I'm trying to get Hobbit 4.2.0 (installed using hobbit-4.2.0-9.el5.re.i386.rpm) to monitor Windows servers. I had a look at http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/ and installed the bbwin client on a test lab machine. However, I've noticed that I need to apply the "all-in-one" and bbwin patches, and this is slightly confusing: Does that apply to my installed version of Hobbit? Was I supposed to apply the patches before installing Hobbit, and necessarily build Hobbit as opposed to using the existing rpm? Is there a way of modifying my existing installation to add support for monitoring Windows? Also, the link to the all-in-one patch is dead on the site mentioned above... I have googled this but haven't really come across anything very useful - if anyone knows of a good source of info apart from the bbwin .chm file I'd appreciate the pointer. Thanks.
list Buchan Milne
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On Tuesday 30 September 2008 12:02:21 Johan Booysen wrote:
I'm trying to get Hobbit 4.2.0 (installed using hobbit-4.2.0-9.el5.re.i386.rpm) to monitor Windows servers. I had a look at http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/ and installed the bbwin client on a test lab machine. However, I've noticed that I need to apply the "all-in-one" and bbwin patches, and this is slightly confusing: Does that apply to my installed version of Hobbit?
For the BBWin centralised config features to work, your Hobbit server does need the functionality implemented in the patches. If you don't need the features, you don't need the patches (since 2% of my monitored hosts are Windows, I don't think I bothered at the time).
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Was I supposed to apply the patches before installing Hobbit, and necessarily build Hobbit as opposed to using the existing rpm?
You can apply the patches later. Whether or not your RPM has them, depends on the RPM. The Mandriva package, and the packages I provide at http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel4/hobbit/ have both the BBWin and the devmon patches (besides the all-in-one patch) applied.
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Is there a way of modifying my existing installation to add support for monitoring Windows?
You can monitor Windows with any version of Hobbit, some features (that work in the Unix client) may however not work. Regards, Buchan
list Ulric Eriksson
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Johan Booysen wrote:
Is there a way of modifying my existing installation to add support for monitoring Windows?
Mr Big (http://mrbig.365-24.se/) has support for centralized configuration without patching Hobbit. Ulric
list Johan Booysen
Thanks very much for your replies. I didn’t realise that the patches relate to the central config in Hobbit, and that's not a big issue to me. Got it working already! Yay! :)
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From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid] Sent: 30 September 2008 12:05
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Johan Booysen
Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbwin patches
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 12:02:21 Johan Booysen wrote:I'm trying to get Hobbit 4.2.0 (installed using hobbit-4.2.0-9.el5.re.i386.rpm) to monitor Windows servers. I had a look at http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/ and installed the bbwin client on a test lab machine. However, I've noticed that I need to apply the "all-in-one" and bbwin patches, and this is slightly confusing: Does that apply to my installed version of Hobbit?
For the BBWin centralised config features to work, your Hobbit server does need the functionality implemented in the patches. If you don't need the features, you don't need the patches (since 2% of my monitored hosts are Windows, I don't think I bothered at the time).
Was I supposed to apply the patches before installing Hobbit, and necessarily build Hobbit as opposed to using the existing rpm?
You can apply the patches later. Whether or not your RPM has them, depends on the RPM. The Mandriva package, and the packages I provide at http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel4/hobbit/ have both the BBWin and the devmon patches (besides the all-in-one patch) applied.
Is there a way of modifying my existing installation to add support for monitoring Windows?
You can monitor Windows with any version of Hobbit, some features (that work in the Unix client) may however not work. Regards, Buchan