I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0.
This release comes after a full year of development since the previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done.
This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights of this release are:
Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles, network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes, system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host has completely crashed.
Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric- tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling of the data.
Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically without having to physically access the client hosts. Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems.
A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required in previous releases.
A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on the most important events at any given time.
A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing a service across multiple hosts.
Several independent projects have sprung up, including a BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon (a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample configurations, and other interesting things). Links to these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help.
Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements and bugfixes.
Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=1402...
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions on updating.
I hope You will enjoy it.
Regards, Henrik
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0.
This release comes after a full year of development since the previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done.
This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights of this release are:
Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles, network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes, system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host has completely crashed.
Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric- tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling of the data.
Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically without having to physically access the client hosts. Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems.
A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required in previous releases.
A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on the most important events at any given time.
A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing a service across multiple hosts.
Several independent projects have sprung up, including a BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon (a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample configurations, and other interesting things). Links to these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help.
Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements and bugfixes.
Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=1402...
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions on updating.
I hope You will enjoy it.
Regards, Henrik
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Excellent work as always Henrik. Many thanks to you and everyone that has testing this over the year and also all the new features that have sprung up.
Looking forward to the future of this excellent app.
Allan Spencer Corporate Learning Systems Melbourne, Australia
Awesome Henrik! I couldn't find your wish-list still active on Amazon...do you have any other way that we can send you a donation?
-Charles
Thanks for all the hard work Henrik, ill be updating my production boxes servers later today (which have been using the RC for a while now very successfully I might add ;) ). Maybe give the client update utility a try then for all the clients.
Thanks again,
Craig Whilding
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: 10 August 2006 06:46 To: hobbit-announce at hswn.dk; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Monitor version 4.2 released
I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0.
This release comes after a full year of development since the previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done.
This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights of this release are:
Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles, network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes, system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host has completely crashed.
Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric- tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling of the data.
Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically without having to physically access the client hosts. Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems.
A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required in previous releases.
A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on the most important events at any given time.
A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing a service across multiple hosts.
Several independent projects have sprung up, including a BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon (a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample configurations, and other interesting things). Links to these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help.
Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements and bugfixes.
Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id= 140220
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions on updating.
I hope You will enjoy it.
Regards, Henrik
To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
On Thursday 10 August 2006 07:45, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0.
This release comes after a full year of development since the previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done.
This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights of this release are:
Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles, network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes, system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host has completely crashed.
Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric- tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling of the data.
Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically without having to physically access the client hosts. Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems.
A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required in previous releases.
A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on the most important events at any given time.
A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing a service across multiple hosts.
Several independent projects have sprung up, including a BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon (a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample configurations, and other interesting things). Links to these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help.
Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements and bugfixes.
Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=140 220
If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions on updating.
FYI, since we run hobbit on a number of production machines, I have:
1)Updated the packages in Mandriva coooker 2)Rebuilt these packages for RHEL2.1, 3, 4, 4 x86_64.
I hope to build Solaris packages for at least Solaris 9 and 10 tomorrow, maybe 8 later (using rpm :-P).
I will probably also push 4.2 to Mandriva 2006 (community tree).
Note that I have fixed a number of problems with the spec file that is shipped with hobbit that you only run into when you maintain the package for a distribution that does checks across the whole distribution for conflicting files etc etc. So in my packages, the hobbit package requires hobbit-client, and no files conflict. I still have some other minor issues to fix (eg make the init script comply with requirements ).
Packages for RHEL can be found here: http://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/buchan/hobbit/
I haven't had time to generate package metadata for these yet.
Regards, Buchan
-- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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