The "mconnect" command might also work. It's been around on solaris since v2.4... it's delivered with Sendmail apparently.

echo "status host.service green date all ok" | mconnect $BBHOST 1984

--Joe

From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:57 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios


That's a good idea, I forgot about that Perl version of bb. Hmm

I wonder if there is anything special that the bb binary does to send it's data, such that you could just use "netcat" and pipe the client data to it. Only problem then is his server might not have netcat either :)

-Charles

Larry Barber wrote: 

	The only binary you _really_ need is bb and I think I

saw a Perl version of the BigBrother bb program on deadcat. If you were to install that you could use cron (assuming these are Unix-like machines) to run the hobbitclient.sh script every 5 minutes. Thanks, Larry Barber On 6/21/06, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com > wrote:

		Henrik:
		
		I heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional

client that does not have to be compiled. Don't know if this is true, but it would sure help me out if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell" client that I could use on the one or two systems where I cannot install all the junk needed to compile a Hobbit client binary. Binary Perl distributions that just drop in are usually available... I know there would be a performance hit, but I would rather have a more expensive-to-run client than no client. Thoughts? GLH -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:33 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:47:47PM -0400, Matthew Davis wrote: > I tried out nagios and one huge winning factor for Hobbit was > simplicity. I put quite a bit of time into getting nagios off the > ground with little luck. And in the same amount of time, I was able > to get nearly all functionality I required out of a monitoring > program. I had a funny experience last week. There was a Linux Users group meeting here in Copenhagen, where the subject was "Setting up Nagios". Since I'm always interested to see what the competitors look like, I attended. The guy who told about Nagios knew that I am behind Hobbit, as did a couple of the people in the audience. So when the talk about Nagios was over and there was some spare time left, they asked me if I could give a quick overview of Hobbit. Which I did, thanks to a wireless Internet connection they managed to setup quickly. After about an hour, someone in the audience asked the Nagios guy "after hearing about Nagios and Hobbit tonight, why didn't you just install Hobbit?" I think that tells a lot about how easy it is to setup Hobbit compared to Nagios.