Gandalf! Monitor Your Machines with Hobbit
Not quite a ring of power, but Hobbit can take some of the pain out of machine, network and services management.
Hobbit is a tool for monitoring servers, applications, and networks, inspired by and compatible with Big Brother, but with the advantage of being open source and under active development. You install Hobbit on a central server, and a client for Hobbit on all the machines you want to monitor.
The central server collects information about the status of your computers and the applications on them, and displays it via an automatically updating Web page. You can also set up email (or text message) alerts for particular situations.
It can monitor various services (SSH, FTP, HTTP…), connectivity, disk space, CPU usage, Web sites, and a variety of other aspects of your machines and network. It’s very configurable, extendable, easy to use, and can handle large numbers of machines.
In this column, I’ll provide a quick overview of how to set it up, configure it, and use alerts.
Setup
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