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diff --git a/net/hobbitmon/DESCR b/net/hobbitmon/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0727d1486cf --- /dev/null +++ b/net/hobbitmon/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +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. |