Well, I guess that would be me.

I started to port BB-Central, but with my limited knowledge of BB and Perl, I decided that writing Hobbit-Central was a better and faster solution.

I am scripting it to begin with and will probably finalize it in C. I currently have HC querying the local HP-UX Hobbit server, 3 remote HP-UX hosts and 2 remote Linux hosts. I am using SSH and shared public keys so it isn't exactly bullet proof as far as security goes. It isn't particularly speedy either. There are some things that could be done to speed things up because if it took 8 seconds to collect from one host, that would be too long for an update to refresh. The solution would be to have a multithreaded application that would query more than one hosts at a time. I guess a possible alternative would be to launch several different HC instances each with their own config files. Thinking out loud there.

Anyway, I am still pretty early in this but what you would need for to use this is ssh between all hosts using RSA public keys. Let me know if you have more questions. Tim

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:04 PM To: Hobbit List Subject: [hobbit] hobbit-central?

Someone on the list took it upon themselves to re-write bb-central as hobbit-central. What's the status of that effort? I'm going to need to run a hobbit-central style environment with linux as the poller and Tru64 as the client. There will be about 100 clients, I think - I'm not certain how many Windows boxes are scattered in the 137 machines I'm supposed to monitor, but I don't think it is very many.

-- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX Austin Energy

dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com

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