Hobbitmon is a big brother like network monitoring tool

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+Hobbit is the successor to the bbgen toolkit, which 
+has been available as an add-on to Big Brother since late 2002.
+The name change was decided upon when Hobbit acquired enough
+functionality to be a stand-alone product. The tools that formed
+the bbgen toolkit are still present in Hobbit and are quite 
+important for it, so if you have used bbgen before, Hobbit
+will seem quite familiar.
+
+Hobbit monitors your hosts, your network services, and anything else
+you configure it to do via extensions. Hobbit will
+periodically generate requests to network services - http, ftp,
+smtp and so on - and record if the service is responding as
+expected. Through the use of agents installed on the servers,
+you can also monitor local disk utilisation, logfiles and processes.