Hello again

Sorry about the lack of information.

The thin client is running Linux (Thinstation). So I guess you can use grep on the processes to filter out the wfclient process. While we're at it; would also be nice to do this with the rdesktop client.

The clients have hostnames. But would pinging them be required ? If Hobbit can extract info from them, then can't they be set to 'online' status ? Dunno how much load pinging of 4000-4500 clients would cause....

I'd like every poll of the clients (using standard poll times like 5min or more) to display how many of the clients were online at that time and how many of those were running the wfclient or rdesktop client. Counts displayed in numbers and graphs using the total number of clients available to Hobbit as the max. (no max on wfclient or rdesktop processes as these can be run multiple times on each client)

One graph for online clients. One graph for how many clients are running one wfclient process. One graph for how many clients are running one rdesktop process. One graph for how many clients are running one wfclient and one rdesktop process. One graph for how many clients are running two or more wfclient processes. One graph for how many clients are running two or more rdesktop processes.

Hope this clears things up, if not let me know! :)

Regards,

Einar Eliassen

From: Einar Eliassen Sent: 28. april 2006 11:06 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Question from a Hobbit n00b

Hello list

I'm looking for a way to monitor thin clients. Several thousand thin clients.

The most important information I need to gather is:

• is the client online ?
• is the client running citrix client ?

I would like to get this graphed. One graph for online clients and one graph for how many clients are running the citrix client.

I should also be able to collect this information on demand.

Is this possible with Hobbit ?

Regards,

Einar Eliassen