On Monday 02 March 2009, Benedikt Kristinsson wrote:
Hello.
There are a few things I dont quite understand yet about hobbit and I cant find anything that explains it in the docs so i better ask :)
In the hobbit "display", the webpage, the hobbit server itself is listed with a few things i dont get on the other servers, like bbd, bbgen, bbtest and hobbitd. These seem to provide interesting things though. I have installed hobbit-client on the clients. Like someone else explained, bb is/was used by BigBrother, Hobbit was 'BigBrother improved' and Xymon is the new name for Hobbit.
The xymon/hobbit server software running on your monitor server is reporting its status as bbd,bbgen, ... What I do is changing MACHINEDOTS in hobbitserver.cfg to <hostname>-hobbit and add a entry "<ip> <hostname>-hobbit # noconn bbd" in bb-hosts. So all the hobbit server checks are reported on a separate line.
Stef