James,
I can help you with some of your questions;
2006/11/3, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com>:
I need assistance with the clients. The server is working.
- I had larrd installed on Big Brother, and assumed that the larrd scripts on the clients could be disabled because Hobbit did iostat and vmstat. However, they turned purple.
So, I restarted the larrd scripts from within Hobbit. However, they still stay purple. They don't seem to update properly.
Do you have to use larrd on the clients or does Hobbit do an iostat, vmstat test like larrd?
No, the Hobbit-client software gathers all data as you said (fi. iostat, vmstat) needed for the server to build the graph-part. The iostat-part is currently under development (search the mailinglist for more info) but I'm confident that Henrik will deliver some terrific work here (again). The vmstat, needed for fi. the load-graph should already work.
- Does anyone use Hobbit for clients? I'm considering just living my clients using Big Brother because of less implementation hours. What's the advantage to moving to hobbit? You can do that, there is no need to rush to change all clients immedeately, but you can change in phases (first the test-systems, see the differences and new graphs). Imho, there are lots of improvements here, because a Hobbit-client show top-output for the cpu-test, ps-output for the process-check, etc. So the need to login at a system is hardly there, after you changed clients. Besides, the Hobbit-client is consuming less resources. Best of all, the output the os-commands generate is send to your hobbit server and can be seen and checked! At the bottom of each test, you see the link 'Client data'. Oh, I forgot another, even better feature: centralized management of thresholds! Disk, memory, cpu etc. It's the server to decide and not the client. So I think you will gain some time here ;-)
- Are there any additional add-ins for hobbit, ie…. plugins
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/about.html#addons
Peter