In <26EF234CFA0A61499BE54B08447FE397084461 at sleepy.opushealthcare.com> "Tim Rotunda" <trotunda at opushealthcare.com> writes:
Can I feed bb from a script (my own) or even C code to report back to the server status of my own programs? Do I really need BB agents?
As long as you send messages to Hobbit (or BB) using the correct protocol, it doesn't matter what you use to generate data. There are a lot of scripts out there to monitor the status of different things - hardware, databases, the weather, traffic information etc.
The BB agent is the fastest way to setup monitoring of a single server at the OS level (check on cpu load, disk usage, processes and logfiles) - simply because the agent already exists. But you are definitely free to use whatever tool you like to find the data you want to monitor.
Regards, Henrik