Hi
Im am a sysadmin fo a ISP tipe environment. We have been using Nagios as our monitoring tool. I do admit that I like Nagios and prefer Nagios over using the Hobbit. Unfortuanately some people with too much say in our organisation decided to use Hobbit. These people are big hobbit fans and I even found them on mailing lists trying to convince Nagios users to switch to hobbit. Since one of my main functions is maintaining the monitoring environment, this decision was a bit of a let down.
Hobbit is easier to configure, I give you that. We are running Nagios and Hobbit side by side and obviously when new servers are build nagios is left out and the kickstarts are built to install hobbit. But I could do some comparisons and I started collecting data that makes hobbit look not so reliable as Nagios. Nagios also has some functionality that I could not find in hobbit.
I have never been on any hobbit mailing list. Since the decision was made, and that is now the road we are going. I would like to see some changes/additions, or make some suggestions to the hobbit. Where can I send my suggestions to?
I am currently a bit anti hobbit, for good reason, but that could change, I hope.
Regards
CJ
Hi CJ,
You sent your mail to the Hobbit mailing list, but it seems you haven't (yet) subscribed to the list - so I've bcc'ed you on this reply.
I'm sorry to hear that someone decided on using Hobbit without listening to the people who actually will be using the monitoring system. That's a bad start for any type of software deployment.
However, since the decision has been made, I suggest that we try to make the best of it. As the main Hobbit developer, I could certainly use some input from people like You who have lots of experience with other systems - there are always things that can be improved. And I must admit that I haven't had the patience to really work with Nagios, so that is a "competitor" I do not have a lot of knowledge about. So there is definitely some things I could learn from Your experience.
Questions, suggestions for improvements and just general cries for help are always welcome at hobbit at hswn.dk - I'd recommend that You subscribe to the list if you want to be sure to see the responses.
Regards, Henrik
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 11:03:05AM +0200, CJ wrote:
Hi
Im am a sysadmin fo a ISP tipe environment. We have been using Nagios as our monitoring tool. I do admit that I like Nagios and prefer Nagios over using the Hobbit. Unfortuanately some people with too much say in our organisation decided to use Hobbit. These people are big hobbit fans and I even found them on mailing lists trying to convince Nagios users to switch to hobbit. Since one of my main functions is maintaining the monitoring environment, this decision was a bit of a let down.
Hobbit is easier to configure, I give you that. We are running Nagios and Hobbit side by side and obviously when new servers are build nagios is left out and the kickstarts are built to install hobbit. But I could do some comparisons and I started collecting data that makes hobbit look not so reliable as Nagios. Nagios also has some functionality that I could not find in hobbit.
I have never been on any hobbit mailing list. Since the decision was made, and that is now the road we are going. I would like to see some changes/additions, or make some suggestions to the hobbit. Where can I send my suggestions to?
I am currently a bit anti hobbit, for good reason, but that could change, I hope.
Regards
CJ
Hi,
Hobbit is easier to configure, I give you that. We are running Nagios and Hobbit side by side and obviously when new servers are build nagios is left out and the kickstarts are built to install hobbit.
Sorry, I'm not sure to understand: why would the Nagios client be more difficult to install automatically?
There's some packages for nagios remote execute, and the monitoring may be done using snmp so all you have to do is install/configure snmp on the hosts you want to monitor if it is not convenient to do otherwise.
But I could do some comparisons and I started collecting data that makes hobbit look not so reliable as Nagios.
What do you mean by "not so reliable"?
Does it means that you think that hobbit is not as scalable as nagios? Or does it means that the data it collects/presents are not acurate? Or does it means hobbit crashes more often than Nagios does?
Nagios also has some functionality that I could not find in hobbit.
Would it be possible for you to send a list of the missing functionalities on the Mailing List? Hobbit is open source, implementing a missing functionality may be done by anyone if it is really useful. But first you have to know that it is missing ;)
Cheers, Gildas
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gn1＠sanger.ac.uk
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henrik＠hswn.dk
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pretocj2＠staff.intekom.com