Anatoli,

Hobbit Central is a good alternative to a "client". It runs on a local server and reaches out to the remote servers collecting data and then reporting back to the hobbit server. The only problem is that it was created for Big Brother and not Hobbit. The solution, or so I thought, was to port it, but that didn't work out for me so I wrote my own script called hobcen, but it doesn't work well for a large number of remote hosts, so I am rewriting it to support a large number of remote hosts and I am writing it in C and not shell script for efficiency and sanity reasons.

I am working on this now and I had hoped to have it out already, but life has suddenly gotten in the way. I should have something to release in the next couple of weeks and will announce that when I am ready. Keep in mind, however, that there are security concerns with using hobcen as is relies on a shared public key to make an ssh connection so anyone that can get onto your hobbit server can get on anywhere. To some a minor concern, others a major one.

Tim

From: cits.bogajewski at daimlerchrysler.com [mailto:cits.bogajewski at daimlerchrysler.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:29 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] HPUX Hobbit Client Issue

Hello there...

while looking out for a good infrastructure monitoring solution i noticed the new hobbit. It seems to be a good approach for that what i am needs.

However, as far as i am noticed, there is no client software, except those found at sourceforge, but i cant compile this stuff on my HPUX machines. Is there probably a way known by someone? Any tips? If not, is there a plan to develop client software for another platforms such HPUX or WINTEL? I have to use BB clients at the moment, but i would prefer to use some kind of GPL software..

Greetings,

Anatoli Bogajewski