Stew,

On the agent side, though I am not a programmer by trade, I am trying to develop a windows client. Just working on it when I have the time. I'll post something when I get it, however I expect it won't be for a month or two.

We are looking into development for the Windows platform, but focusing more on WMI scripts for testing given services/Applications (i.e. Exchange / RPC / SQL Server, that kind of stuff)

Although we planned to just continue using the BBClient, there might be value in coordinating efforts here. We are evaluating the methods available to us in managing this; with the following considerations:

About 30 servers each with about 10 tests, hence upward of 300 scripts (given each bbclient has a different install path / log directory), with the added burden of rolling out updates or amendments to these scripts.

We are finding that management of client side tests has become cumbersome with as little as 30 servers, and would like to work toward a unified deployment and or deployment method.

Also, I am sure there are a number of people involved in monitoring Microsoft servers; I would be interested to hear how you achieved this, in addition to any indication of interest in the development of a client / test architecture.

-Gerard Lill

-----Original Message----- From: Stew Lambert [mailto:slambert at lambertsolutions.com] Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 14:49 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [Bayesian SPAM] - RE: [hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

I think you've done an amazing job. Cutting the ties with Qwest is a good thing. I bought the PE version during a big sale last year, and haven't heard a thing from them (upgrades, etc). They should have given you a big check and thrown bbgen into BB. Just my personal opinion.

On the agent side, though I am not a programmer by trade, I am trying to develop a windows client. Just working on it when I have the time. I'll post something when I get it, however I expect it won't be for a month or two.

Thanks for everything Henrik.

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To be honest, I wonder if the quest version of BB is actually selling/successful... ie, are there still loads of new BB users sprouting up, or is it just old BTF license users who are using/maintaining old BB installations....

There haven't been many commercial updates, and it looks like Quest is starting to move away from giving the source out.

One thing I've noticed is that traffic on the BB mailing list appears to have dropped significantly after the Hobbit mailinglist started, and the beta-testing really got going.

There are currently 169 adresses subscribed to the Hobbit list, and a handful more only on the announcement-list. I guess I must be doing something right :-)

Regards, Henrik

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