I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0.
This release comes after a full year of development since the previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done.
This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights of this release are:
Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles, network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes, system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host has completely crashed.
Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric- tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling of the data.
Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically without having to physically access the client hosts. Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems.
A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required in previous releases.
A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on the most important events at any given time.
A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing a service across multiple hosts.
Several independent projects have sprung up, including a BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon (a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample configurations, and other interesting things). Links to these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help.
Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements and bugfixes.
Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=1402...
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions on updating.
I hope You will enjoy it.
Regards, Henrik