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Oratns
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hi all Some assistance with bb-hosts please. If I want to check for an oracle listener, my line looks like this 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545 This will check for an Oracle listener on port 1545 How do I make it check for more than one Oracle listener? For reasons unknown to me, we are running multiple listeners on separate ports on a server. Should I have multiple oratns entries (so my line looks like this) 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545 oratns 1546 Or can we do it like this 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545:1546 Ordinarily, I would just run a few tests, but bring down one of the listeners on a production server as a test could prove to be a serious CLM. Regards Vernon

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[hobbit] Shire: update
by brodie＠mcw.edu 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

One category I'd like to see is a place for user-created config files to go as examples. For example, sample bb-hosts files, hobbit-clients.cfg, hobbit-alerts.cfg, etc. I had a wee bit of struggling to get the behavior of some of the alerting rules right, for example. As far as categories in general, I agree deadcat has too many..... My $0.02: Network Disk Email Databases HTTP Config Examples Environment Security At least to start with- perhaps a few more. I think most items can be lumped in here somewhere. --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Galen Johnson [mailto:gjohnson at trantor.org] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:44 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Shire: update Galen Johnson wrote: > Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on the new monitor site that > is being set up (theshire.sf.net)...Sourceforge accepted it late last > night ( around midnight EDT). I want to work with Henrik a bit to > make sure that our visions converge on this. I also need to set up > the categories (at a minimum) before turning everyone loose...I would > prefer there to be some structure in place beforehand. Please be > patient...I really appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for this project > and I hope to have everything going in the next few days. It's also > been a LONG time since I've done anything on SF and need to refresh my > memory about things (and become familiar with some of the new tools). > > =G= > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > OK...we're getting to the point to where we need to consider the categories...personally, I think deadcat has too many. I'd like to keep the categories as straightforward as possible. I'm open to ideas as to what the basic categories should be...I'm also going to see how many times I can use the word categories in this email... I'm hoping the the BBWin folks will consider using this area as well. I'm not going to prompt with the list of categories I have in mind as I'd rather hear what other users think first. I'd also like to provide a tutorial on writing monitoring scripts complete with the graphing and alerting. Henrik has provided some basic framework for a basic client and server script. I should probably go back through the archives to see what already exists as well (if you know of something, by all means, please point me to it). I have a developers list and announcement list set up. I still need to flesh the details out a bit more. I'd like to set up a job that automatically sends a daily report to the announce list if new/updated monitors are added but I'm going to have to figure that out later. (I can see why Henrik hasn't found the time to tackle this :-) ) =G= To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Windows Client
by brodie＠mcw.edu 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Does anyone know if there's going to be a gui wrapper around the config of this? I am reasonably impressed by the window client's abilities (just fired it up on one of my windows nodes), but I can tell that the windows sysadmins here will be a bit put off by having to manually make registry entries, and manually edit the xml config file. (It's one thing for us unix-dudes(or dudettes) to edit hobbit config items, but I know the windows guys like the gui way. The (older, yet still mostly functional) BBNT client is quite easy to install, configure, and run. I'm hoping that's what we ultimately end up with for the hobbit windows client! --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Frédéric Mangeant [mailto:frederic.mangeant at steria.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:39 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows Client Le 01/08/2006 08:20, Everett, Vernon a écrit : > Hi all > > I have been asleep for a while, and not monitoring what's been going > on, but can anybody tell me the status of the Windows client? > When I last paid close attention to the list, the client was in beta, > and if I recall, did a pretty OK job. (I installed it on a test system) > But that was at the old job. > > New job, new Hobbit installation, and the Windoze crowd want to see > the client. > > What's news? 0.8 has been released :-) http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=597086 -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Oratns
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Thanks Jim Sounds like an idea. If you have time I would apreciate it. But let's give it some time, somebody may still have the answer. Henrik could probably check the code and tell us - and he should be up in just a few hours. The irony is, I am a DBA as well as a SysAdmin, and could do exactly as you suggest easily enough, but I work for a government department, hired as a contract SysAdmin!!!!!! The outcry it would cause if a SysAdmin did any DBA work is just not worth it. The senior DBA is on leave, and the junior one can't/won't help. (The senior DBA is a mate of mine, so he would help, but isn't back for 2 weeks) Amazing how easily politics can prevent you having a good day. :-( Cheers Vernon ________________________________ From: Smith, Jim [mailto:JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 9:42 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Oratns Yes, I'm sure it WOULD be a CLM! Unfortunately, I don't have multiple listeners running on any of my servers so I can't be of much help. Do you have a test server running Oracle that you can play with? I do and am willing to give this a try if I can get my DBA to assist with setting up some dummy listeners. Jim Smith -----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at dpi.wa.gov.au] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:36 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Oratns Hi all Some assistance with bb-hosts please. If I want to check for an oracle listener, my line looks like this 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545 This will check for an Oracle listener on port 1545 How do I make it check for more than one Oracle listener? For reasons unknown to me, we are running multiple listeners on separate ports on a server. Should I have multiple oratns entries (so my line looks like this) 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545 oratns 1546 Or can we do it like this 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545:1546 Ordinarily, I would just run a few tests, but bring down one of the listeners on a production server as a test could prove to be a serious CLM. Regards Vernon To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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[hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

You will lose nothing. I did exactly that. We had a third party monitoring our systems with BB when I joined my previous company. I changed the BB scripts to send to my Hobbit server as well as their BB server. (Duplicated the bb command line with the IP address of my Hobbit server instead of $BBDISPLAY) This meant the third party had a BB server running, and I had a Hobbit server, and they weren't even aware that the Hobbit server existed. (Yes, both were running in parallel, giving the same results) When I had suffiently impressed my PHB that Hobbit is better than BB, because it could do more, we told the third party where to get off, and all monitoring was done internally. (OK, there was far more politics involved in dumping the third party than just Hobbit/BB, but it helped having the ability to monitor our own systems as well, if not better than they were.) I then moved all our systems to the Hobbit client as and when I had time. Now stop with the questions. Just do it. You will never look back. :-) Cheers Vernon -----Original Message----- From: Jordan Mendler [mailto:jmendler at ucla.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 9:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating? Awesome guys, no doubt I am gonna try it out when I get some free time. I think the fact that I got all my questions answered a few different times in a very short period says something about the community. So if I use the existing BB clients with a new Hobbit server, what functionally will be lost until I have a chance to upgrade all the clients to hobbit? Thanks so much, Jordan

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[hobbit] Oratns
by JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Yes, I'm sure it WOULD be a CLM! Unfortunately, I don't have multiple listeners running on any of my servers so I can't be of much help. Do you have a test server running Oracle that you can play with? I do and am willing to give this a try if I can get my DBA to assist with setting up some dummy listeners. Jim Smith -----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at dpi.wa.gov.au] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:36 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Oratns Hi all Some assistance with bb-hosts please. If I want to check for an oracle listener, my line looks like this 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545 This will check for an Oracle listener on port 1545 How do I make it check for more than one Oracle listener? For reasons unknown to me, we are running multiple listeners on separate ports on a server. Should I have multiple oratns entries (so my line looks like this) 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545 oratns 1546 Or can we do it like this 1.2.3.4 name.domain.com # oratns:1545:1546 Ordinarily, I would just run a few tests, but bring down one of the listeners on a production server as a test could prove to be a serious CLM. Regards Vernon To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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[hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
by JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

The only thing I have changed on my BB clients is adding a line for the Hobbit server to the bb-hosts file. That's it! Jim Smith -----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at dpi.wa.gov.au] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:31 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating? You will lose nothing. I did exactly that. We had a third party monitoring our systems with BB when I joined my previous company. I changed the BB scripts to send to my Hobbit server as well as their BB server. (Duplicated the bb command line with the IP address of my Hobbit server instead of $BBDISPLAY) This meant the third party had a BB server running, and I had a Hobbit server, and they weren't even aware that the Hobbit server existed. (Yes, both were running in parallel, giving the same results) When I had suffiently impressed my PHB that Hobbit is better than BB, because it could do more, we told the third party where to get off, and all monitoring was done internally. (OK, there was far more politics involved in dumping the third party than just Hobbit/BB, but it helped having the ability to monitor our own systems as well, if not better than they were.) I then moved all our systems to the Hobbit client as and when I had time. Now stop with the questions. Just do it. You will never look back. :-) Cheers Vernon -----Original Message----- From: Jordan Mendler [mailto:jmendler at ucla.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 9:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating? Awesome guys, no doubt I am gonna try it out when I get some free time. I think the fact that I got all my questions answered a few different times in a very short period says something about the community. So if I use the existing BB clients with a new Hobbit server, what functionally will be lost until I have a chance to upgrade all the clients to hobbit? Thanks so much, Jordan To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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R: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose frommigrating?
by fduranti＠q8.it 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hi Jordan, >I am considering moving to Hobbit from BB for our >web/database/applications development group at UCLA and have lots of >questions. I would greatly appreciate if someone could go section by >section and answer what they can. If there is somewhere that I can >search the mailing list archives, definitely point me there first as I >am sure many of these questions have been answered in the past. I'm a big fan of hobbit so my comments can be a little toward hobbit monitoring but i really have to thanks bb4 technologies because I've to tank them for BB first. I started to use BB many years ago to monitor just a couple of network device and a couple of solaris machines. The process to put BB in production involved many years using it in a "personal" environment because we had some bigger monitoring software that was acquired... While the time passed Henrik developed bbgen and the possibility to create better reports and pagesets (dedicated pages for network people or for DB people or for windows admins)... In the meantime Quest buyed BB and I finally presented the monitoring platform to my boss :D This leaded to the acquisition of server and client licenses for BB. We was using the "free" version of the server because we have that platform + bbgen installed and running. Some times passed and I got hobbit and started to play with it and after having it installed I changed the bb+bbgen server with hobbit. >First, after reading through whatever I could find on the website I am >still a little bit confused about configuration and setup. With BB, you >install and configure each client and server on the local machine, >except for the universal bb-hosts. Is this the same on Hobbit, or does >Hobbit use a central configuration file that is modified only on the >server to configure clients? I am trying to figure out the difference >between installing, maintaining and configuring BB and Hobbit setups. >Hobbit looks alot more complex to setup, but once I get my feet wet is >it any harder than BB? You have a server installation that will work out-of-the-box with all your BB clients already installed. The configuration is completely centralized for the hobbit clients so no need to go to a client after you installed and configured hobbit. You only need to go to the client to add more external scripts that run client side or to upgrade hobbit (with version 4.2 you'll not need to go to the client because you can create a package on the server and the client will update itself). With BB client if you need to change a warning/alert level you have to do it client side. With Hobbit you'll do it on the server. Regarding the old client I'm running it on some old solaris 2.6 machine (bb client v1.9c) that I've no reason to upgrade to hobbit because I've just one or 2 users using them and I hope (from about 2 years) to switch them off soon :D I'm also using BB client for windows on Windows NT/2k/2k3 servers and it work well (also if I'm missing the centralized configuration I've on hobbit client). The only thing that really changes from BB is the alert notification file and the centralized client configuration file. There's much help in those configuration files to let you configure whatever need you have. >Second is performance. I know this list may be biased toward Hobbit, but >is it actually faster? We have about 50-100 clients on BB and I did not >notice any performance issues. Hobbit looks like it is very complex, so >does this mean it uses a lot of resources on the client and server? What >speed/ram server is usually the minimum recommended for a dedicated >Hobbit server? Would something like a dual Pentium II 266mhz have any >performance issues as a server, if it does nothing else? What about for >clients? We have still have some testing, stating and production servers >left that are singe chip Pentium III 700-850 mhz, and even a couple >Pentium II's. Just need to make sure all the resources used for things >like graphs are taken from the server and not each client. Server side hobbit is entirely written in C and will access the disk only for rrd and some temporary files so I think it will not have big problem if you have just some spare memory to let it run. Page generation is really faster and you can regenerate page every minutes. The networking test is also faster than the BB ones. The hobbit client is a shell script that will run commands to get data from the machine and send them to the server so no cpu power is consumed on the client and no disk access is done apart from some logging and temporary space. Hobbit will generate bb html pages, all test pages are dynamic and generated on the fly. You can some more power/disk space if you want to store many RRD data for graphs and trends (server side) >Third is plugins. Are BB plugins compatible with Hobbit? Also how hard >are plugins to write for Hobbit? I don't know if these even exist for >bb, but I ultimately would like to integrate plugins that 1) monitor >legato tape backup, 2) run nmap to see what ports are open/can be seen >from an external machine, 3) run 'lshw -html' to show a list of all the >hardware on the system, 4) monitor uptime, 5) monitor OS and kernel >versions (uname -a and head -n 1 /etc/issue), 6) maybe some more >router/network monitoring stuff and 7) maybe some kind of LVS >monitoring. I am not a programmer, but many of these can be done with >either existing commands or can be done on BB with existing plugins and >some (like lshw -html) are mostly static. BB plugin (at least from 1.9) are fully compatible with hobbit .... the maximum you have to do is to put some environment variable in the hobbit configuration file instead of putting them in some other bb file but this is all. 1) if you have a script to do it there's no problem to use it ... 2) hobbit client 4.2 already implement a network test that check open port on the local machine 3) you can run it and send the output to the hobbit server, it will manage to show you the data.... just an example: If you run (from a hobbit client commandline) : echo "status machine1.cpuinfo green `date` `cat /proc/cpuinfo `"| bb hobbitsrv @ It will report the data to hobbit and you can see them in a column .... 4) already done from the client and also from some network monitoring script available for hobbit or bb that get data via SNMP. 5) client os information are reported by the hobbit client 6) there are many scripts available on deadcat that run out-of-the-box with hobbit (or just with some modify). Many new extention are starting also to be personalized for hobbit because it have more options. Some of those scripts test network device via SNMP. Some new ones are in development ( devmon ) and are done so that you can check every snmp device you want, you just need to write a template of what you want to check. 7) don't really know but I think it will not be difficult to write something about it if there are commands to check the state. >Fourth is relay. By this I mean monitoring systems on a private >subnetwork that are only accessible to the Hobbit server by going >through an intermediate server. Is this possible with Hobbit and is it >any more difficult to do than on BB? Hobbit use the same protocol as BB. You only need to open one port or you can use the proxy or, with the 4.2 version you can directly poll the hobbit client from the server to get the data that will be stored locally in memory. This last alternative is what I'll start to check in the next few days to get data from our DMZ machines and it's a really simple-than-what-could-be-done with BB for polling instead of receiving because you need nothing more then the hobbit client. >Fifth is portability. BB is very portable, I can make a 'model' client >for say Red Hat and tar it and distribute it very easily to every server >I have using only a few commands. Is Hobbit the same, or are there >client dependencies or other things that may make this more difficult. Hobbit is at least as portable as BB. Just compile on one machine add all needed extentions and then tar and port it on all the same architecture machines. If you want to let the client work with "local" configuration instead of the centralized one you'll need the pcre library installed on the client machine but if you use the normal centralized setup you'll need nothing else than a tar. With 4.2, when a new version is available you have only to compile it, package on one client and put it on the server to have it distributed to all your clients. >Sixth is development. How active is the development of Hobbit, how big >is the community, etc? How many people can attest to having fully >functional hobbit setups, how long has it been around and how often are >new releases usually made? Also I saw something this morning about a >Windows client -- how stable is that? How stable is the Solaris version? >Is there a client for Mac OSX? Is Hobbit like BB in the sense that you >can change paths to system binaries like grep and sed to allow easy use >on other UNIXes like OSX? When will 4.2 be officially released as a >production version? Since we have a working BB setup for now, I need to >decide if I should try to start migrating now or if I should wait some >time for Hobbit to develop more before I migrate from BB. Well... I think hobbit have a really active community (just check the mail in this mailing list ... about 80 in 2 days ...well, we're under the final bug fixes for 4.2 :D ).... if you need any information or help with every problem you can have with hobbit or with an extention script or with something you don't understand of the functionality of hobbit you can send a mail and normally it will not pass unobserved and probably you'll get an answer or help from someone during the same day. Release for 4.2 is going a bit long but this new version will implement really much changes from the oldest 4.1 release that I think it's normal (I'm also seeing new functionality implemented in those last days before relase). The snapshot are created nightly and sometimes there are also daily snapshot to correct some bugs... I think many people in the community are already running the 4.2 if not in a production environment in test just to check the new functionality (at least I'm doing it :P). The windows client (bbwin) is in development and the 0.8 version preview is out... I think I'll start to check it tomorrow because there are some really nice functionality that this client have (monitoring of microsoft cluster and load balancer). The next versions ( I really hope the next one) will also be full hobbit-client oriented so it will send data to hobbit that will do the checking for the warning/alerting.... After this I will never have to change anything on a monitored client :D Regarding the development community you'll find that for hobbit (some run also with bb) there are many people developing plugins.. At the moment this is what is "under development" that I remember: Devmon: to monitor snmp devices you can found it at devmon.sourceforge.net bbwin: windows client found at: bbwin.sourceforge.net hobbit-perl-cl (my work :P): you'll find perl extentions that run on hobbit server to monitor network appliance storage, Weblogic server and i hope for the next week database server (oracle/informix/sqlserver mysql in the near future) located at sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl The shire : a sort of deadcat for hobbit scripts sourceforge.net/projects/theshire/ >That's all for now. Sorry about so many questions, but I need as much >clarification and background knowledge as possible before I start trying >to convince my boss why we should dedicate the time and effort to try >out and ultimately move to Hobbit when BB "just works" without giving us >any problems. If we do adopt hobbit, I will definitely reciprocate with >help to newbies as I learn Hobbit better and will recommend it to many >other people on campus as I have previously done with BB. The only think I can suggest is to try hobbit. You can also do it on the same machine when you run your bb server.... What you need to do is: 1) create a hobbit user 2) install hobbit server normally 3) add the apache part to the apache server configuration (it's different from the bb because it uses /hobbit) 4) edit the ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg and ~hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg and change the BBPORT variable from 1984 to 1985 (or something else) 5) edit the ~hobbit/server/etc/bb-services and change bbd port to the same one used in 4) 6) start the hobbit server and check what's happening I use this setup on the same machine where I have the hobbit production server and it work really well. If you want to test the hobbitclient you just have to go to a machine, compile the client, change the same port in the hobbitclient.cfg file and check how it's working. If you want to populate some datas just to check how it work you can also get your bb-hosts file and put some of your host network check in hobbit just to have some pages/subpages ... I think after you test it and see everything he can do you'll start using it :D Well I think I wrote a bit too much :D Regards Francesco Duranti

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[hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
by JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

That sounds like a challenge! <grin> -----Original Message----- From: Brodie, Kent [mailto:brodie at mcw.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 5:03 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating? Like Jim, I was originally going to keep parallel installations going for some time (BB, and then Hobbit). After only 1 day of seeing what hobbit could do for me, my reaction was "why bother"? I imported the bb-hosts file from BB into hobbit, turned BB off, and went to town. --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Jim [mailto:JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:49 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating? I have to second everything that Kent said. I am still in the process of switching from BB to Hobbit, but I've had it set up and running since January. I really, really like it. I'm going to continue using BB for a while to send messages and alerts to the help desk folks, since I want to filter out a lot of things that they might panic about but aren't really critical issues. Hobbit will be the main monitoring system for the rest of the technical staff. Jim Smith To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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[hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
by brodie＠mcw.edu 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Like Jim, I was originally going to keep parallel installations going for some time (BB, and then Hobbit). After only 1 day of seeing what hobbit could do for me, my reaction was "why bother"? I imported the bb-hosts file from BB into hobbit, turned BB off, and went to town. --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Jim [mailto:JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 4:49 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating? I have to second everything that Kent said. I am still in the process of switching from BB to Hobbit, but I've had it set up and running since January. I really, really like it. I'm going to continue using BB for a while to send messages and alerts to the help desk folks, since I want to filter out a lot of things that they might panic about but aren't really critical issues. Hobbit will be the main monitoring system for the rest of the technical staff. Jim Smith

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