The better than free or the professional version? One option might be to run the Hobbit Server (which creates all the graphs) and continue to run your bb clients.

Although, I'm not sure what support you're getting from Qwest that this list doesn't provide in a more timely fashion. I've used both Hobbit and BB (both professional and btf) and have to say the hobbit support I've received from Henrik (as well as the contributors to this list) has far exceeded anything I ever received from BB.

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From: Breitman, Jason [mailto:Jason.Breitman at blackrock.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 11:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Using hobbit's larrd with Big Brother

I am running Big Brother version 3.3. My company appreciates the support from Quest which is why we have not converted to Hobbit. I was wondering if there is a way to use the portion of hobbit that generates the larrd graphs with Big Brother. We are having performance issues when running larrd on the DISPLAY Server and I know that the Hobbit Version will help us.

Jason Breitman jason.breitman at blackrock.com

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:59:33AM -0400, Breitman, Jason wrote:

I am running Big Brother version 3.3. My company appreciates the support from Quest which is why we have not converted to Hobbit. I was wondering if there is a way to use the portion of hobbit that generates the larrd graphs with Big Brother. We are having performance issues when running larrd on the DISPLAY Server and I know that the Hobbit Version will help us.

As I understand, you want Hobbit to create and update the RRD files that stores the data for the graphs. To do so, you will need to have a Hobbit server running which is fed the same data as your BB server.

The simple solution would be to setup bbproxy (from Hobbit) to receive all of the data from your clients and your BBNET server(s), and then setup Hobbit and BB to receive data from the bbproxy. If all of this runs on the same host, then you'll have to tweak some port numbers or assign some extra IP-adresses to the host, so that BB's bbd, Hobbit's hobbitd and bbproxy all have separate ports that they listen to.

With that setup you'll essentially be running both BB and Hobbit in parallel, each of them receiving the same data.

Henrik