Rich Smrcina a écrit :

Is the new Hobbit client compatible with the old BigBrother server?

Not at all. It acts more like a information collector, and the server then tells if it's green-yellow-red. It makes the client real light, and makes the sysadmin life better by holding most of the setup on the server.

Regards,

-- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:48:02PM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:

Is the new Hobbit client compatible with the old BigBrother server? BigBrother is run by a different part of the organization and I may not be able to get them to change to Hobbit, but for my Linux guests and my z/VM systems, I would be interested in converting to the new Hobbit code.

In the default mode, you cannot use the Hobbit client to report to a Big Brother system. No data would ever show up, because a Big Brother server doesn't know how to feed the client data through the hobbitd_client module, which takes care of converting the client data into status columns.

However, you *can* run the Hobbit client in the local-configuration mode. When the configure script asks Server side client configuration, or client side [server] ? answer "client", and the launch the client with the "--local" option.

In this mode, the client sends normal "status" messages to the Hobbit/BB server. I'm not sure if alerts will work, though, since the Hobbit client doesn't generate the "page" messages that the BB server expects to trigger sending out alerts. (Hobbit ignores these messages completely, so it did seem like a waste of time to generate them).

Note that this isn't really described very well anywhere. It means you will have to maintain the client configuration on the client, not on the Hobbit server.

Regards, Henrik