Re: {bb} BBGen Questions, 4.0 Release Date, et al...

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <1104929759.13720.92.camel@localhost.localdomain> Daniel J McDonald <dan.mcdonald@austinenergy.com> writes:

>On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:19 +0000, Henrik Storner wrote:
>> In <20050105103634.GE2337@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> Christian Perrier <Christian.Perrier@onera.fr> writes:
>> 

>> You might want to install something like the Big Brother client, to
>> get the cpu, disk, procs and msgs monitoring.  But apart from that
>> little bit of monitoring, Hobbit gives you everything that the BB
>> server does - and a lot more.

>I'm assuming external tests are run using hobbitlaunch?  I'm running
>quite a few external tests - monitors for eigrp and ospf routing
>protocols, ntp, etc.

You can use hobbitlaunch for external scripts, yes. But I would use it
only for those scripts that need to run on the SERVER (either the
BBDISPLAY or BBNET server). Client-side extensions are better handled
by setting them up as extensions to the BB client.

>Will bbmap work with it?  or will I need to rewrite it?  since I
>primarily monitor routers (about 100 of them, and another 20 or so
>firewalls) bbmap is my main interface.

I'm not 100% sure how bbmap works, so I cannot really tell. It really
depends on a single issue: Does bbmap access the files in the
bbvar/logs/ directory directly or not ? If it does, then some work is
needed since those files no longer exist - you need to do a network
request to get the status of the monitored system instead of walking
through the logfiles. It's not terribly difficult - I've done it for
the maint.pl script that I use.

Worst case - there is a compatibility module that makes the Hobbit 
daemon store files so it looks just like Big Brother. It slows down 
things (a lot!), but for a site with about 100 systems it might be
OK - at least for some time while we get bbmap ported.


Henrik
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