On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:10:09PM +0200, Nicolas wrote:
I installed the client on a freebsd 6.1 box and it works fine.
Currently, there are 7 jails on the box and i m going to install the hobbit client on each one.
but i d like to know if there ll be some external scripts in order to monitore Freebsd jails without installing a client hobbit into each jails. (there are some tools like "jexec" to execute command into jail without logging on it).
I haven't played with FreeBSD jails at all, all I know is the basic concept of isolating certain tasks into their own pseudo system. So I don't know enough about them to say whether this will be simple or difficult to implement.
The Hobbit client script is pretty simple, though - so if there is a mechanism in place where a script at the physical-box-level can run commands inside each of the jails, then it should be pretty simple to tweak the client to run on all of the jail-systems without having to install it there - you'd basically be doing "uptime", "df", "ps" etc. once for each jail instance, wrapping it up into a client message and send that across to the Hobbit server. Each of your jails would then show up as a separate "host" on the Hobbit server display.
Just one way of doing it, I am open to suggestions since this is not something I know a whole lot about.
Regards, Henrik