WMI.

I know nothing about programming; but - WMI. Every server we monitor and manage is running Windows 2000 server or later; which means we found our common ground.

Peter - If you wanted to know who has been working on a hobbit client - we have.

Attached is an implementation that runs as a windows service, checking performance counters and passing results to the server. The service is designed to query an SQL server (yes - MS SQL :)), passing it's full hostname as an argument, which returns a full list of WMI counters to monitor, the address of the hobbit server to report to, the frequency, whether to create a log file, and if so where. (Basically, the client is completely without any configuration, designed to up-date it's config with every boot)

I agree we need someone to co-ordinate this effort to ultimately produce the windows / windoze client that Hobbit is lacking. One of the few short-comings of Hobbit IMHO.

You can download the source at http://www.ets.biz/hobbitmonitor.zip - it's under any licensing model you care to chose :).

Gerard Lill T: +44 (0)20 8797 7799 F: +44 (0)20 8797 4725 www.ets.biz Eclipse Technology Services -----Original Message----- From: Rob MacGregor [mailto:rob.macgregor at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 22:34 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows

On 28/11/05, Jeff Newman <jeffnewman75 at gmail.com> wrote:

Please excuse my ignorance as Im new to hobbit/BB, but whats wrong with the Big Brother client? I run a hobbit server, downloaded the windows client off of the big brother site, installed it, and it reports stuff to hobbit just fine.

Licensing - you may just want to read the license agreement :-)

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