[hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
You will lose nothing. I did exactly that. We had a third party monitoring our systems with BB when I joined my previous company. I changed the BB scripts to send to my Hobbit server as well as their BB server. (Duplicated the bb command line with the IP address of my Hobbit server instead of $BBDISPLAY) This meant the third party had a BB server running, and I had a Hobbit server, and they weren't even aware that the Hobbit server existed. (Yes, both were running in parallel, giving the same results)
When I had suffiently impressed my PHB that Hobbit is better than BB, because it could do more, we told the third party where to get off, and all monitoring was done internally. (OK, there was far more politics involved in dumping the third party than just Hobbit/BB, but it helped having the ability to monitor our own systems as well, if not better than they were.) I then moved all our systems to the Hobbit client as and when I had time.
Now stop with the questions. Just do it. You will never look back. :-)
Cheers Vernon
-----Original Message----- From: Jordan Mendler [mailto:jmendler at ucla.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 9:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
Awesome guys, no doubt I am gonna try it out when I get some free time. I think the fact that I got all my questions answered a few different times in a very short period says something about the community.
So if I use the existing BB clients with a new Hobbit server, what functionally will be lost until I have a chance to upgrade all the clients to hobbit?
Thanks so much, Jordan
Cool. I guess I'll add a second display to bb-hosts and give hobbit a run. I'll just use Shmux to deploy bb-hosts to all the clients (figured I'd mention that great application while I'm at it :-)
Once again, thanks for all the help everyone, hopefully my next message here will be as a convert.
Jordan
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 09:30 +0800, Everett, Vernon wrote:
You will lose nothing. I did exactly that. We had a third party monitoring our systems with BB when I joined my previous company. I changed the BB scripts to send to my Hobbit server as well as their BB server. (Duplicated the bb command line with the IP address of my Hobbit server instead of $BBDISPLAY) This meant the third party had a BB server running, and I had a Hobbit server, and they weren't even aware that the Hobbit server existed. (Yes, both were running in parallel, giving the same results)
When I had suffiently impressed my PHB that Hobbit is better than BB, because it could do more, we told the third party where to get off, and all monitoring was done internally. (OK, there was far more politics involved in dumping the third party than just Hobbit/BB, but it helped having the ability to monitor our own systems as well, if not better than they were.) I then moved all our systems to the Hobbit client as and when I had time.
Now stop with the questions. Just do it. You will never look back. :-)
Cheers Vernon
-----Original Message----- From: Jordan Mendler [mailto:jmendler at ucla.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2006 9:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
Awesome guys, no doubt I am gonna try it out when I get some free time. I think the fact that I got all my questions answered a few different times in a very short period says something about the community.
So if I use the existing BB clients with a new Hobbit server, what functionally will be lost until I have a chance to upgrade all the clients to hobbit?
Thanks so much, Jordan
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