Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my company which are being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
Thank You very much for any information. -cs
-- Chris Strzelczyk GCS Real Estate Real Estate Investment and Management (586) 770-9544 (248) 204-6215 chris at gcsrealestate.com
Chris,
A 4.3 release is in development and is scheduled for release this fall (but of course that can change :) ).
Chris Strzelczyk wrote:
Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my company which are being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
Thank You very much for any information. -cs
-- Chris Strzelczyk GCS Real Estate Real Estate Investment and Management (586) 770-9544 (248) 204-6215 chris at gcsrealestate.com <mailto:chris at gcsrealestate.com>
Chris, perhaps you should track down the Web archive for this list, review it, and then decide for yourself if the project is active enough for your taste.
From: Chris Strzelczyk [mailto:chris4136 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:24 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Project Status
Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my companywhich are being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
Thank You very much for any information.
-cs
--
Chris Strzelczyk
GCS Real Estate
Real Estate Investment and Management
(586) 770-9544
(248) 204-6215
chris at gcsrealestate.com I don't believe that Henrik uses Souceforge's CVS. There is a link on the page that points to Henrik's site. I can assure you that it is still under active development...either that or someone has been masquerading as Henrik on the list :-).
=G=
From: Chris Strzelczyk [mailto:chris4136 at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:24 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Project Status
Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my company which are being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
Thank You very much for any information. -cs
-- Chris Strzelczyk GCS Real Estate Real Estate Investment and Management (586) 770-9544 (248) 204-6215 chris at gcsrealestate.com
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:23 -0400, Chris Strzelczyk wrote:
Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my company which are being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
First off, welcome. This project is very actively being developed. There is usally a new beta-snapshot released every night http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/
The current stable release is 4.2.0 and Henrik is working on releasing 4.3.0 , however no date has been set but it should be soon (Im guessing)
Also visit The Shire for add-on and other information for Hobbit. http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/about
Trent
Thank You very much for any information. -cs
-- Chris Strzelczyk GCS Real Estate Real Estate Investment and Management (586) 770-9544 (248) 204-6215 chris at gcsrealestate.com
Chris Strzelczyk wrote:
Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my company which are being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
Don't know if you received an answer to your question, but yes, Hobbit is an active project. The mailing list is active, and the tool is very much alive, used, and supported. It monitors 2000+ hosts at my business. It may not look active from a release standpoint, but there is a planned 4.3 release soon. But 4.2 is a solid thing. -Alan
-- Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <asparks at doublesparks.net>
The mailing list is very active. From what I've seen over the past few weeks of listening in, there is a very competent bunch of people. Support won't be immediate, but it will get you there.
I switched from the free version of Big Brother (which is not for corporate use, legally) to Hobbit no more then a week ago. I have been extremely pleased at the simplicity of the install and abundance of features and upgrades. I too am using 4.2.0. Right out of the box I did a quick install, duplicated my ~150 host bb-hosts file, added the testip argument and I was up and running within the majority of my morning.
Depending on your host type you will find the enable/disable feature to be a complete blessing. I most certainly have - some clients love to unplug their network equipment!
There is absolutely no excuse to not move from BB1.9 to Hobbit 4.2. None.
On 10/9/07, Alan Sparks <asparks at doublesparks.net> wrote:
Chris Strzelczyk wrote:
Hello,
My name is Chris. I manage around 50 clients for my company which are being monitored by the free version of Big Brother currently. I would like to move my monitoring over to the GPL Hobbit version. Before I do so, I wanted to obtain a status of the release. I noticed that CVS has been inactive on sourceforge lately. Is this project currently being developed? Is there a release plan anywhere on the site?
Don't know if you received an answer to your question, but yes, Hobbit is an active project. The mailing list is active, and the tool is very much alive, used, and supported. It monitors 2000+ hosts at my business. It may not look active from a release standpoint, but there is a planned 4.3 release soon. But 4.2 is a solid thing. -Alan
-- Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <asparks at doublesparks.net>
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participants (7)
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asparks＠doublesparks.net
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chris4136＠gmail.com
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Galen.Johnson＠sas.com
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greg.hubbard＠eds.com
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josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com
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rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com
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trent.melcher＠sitel.com