Big Brother (bb4)...

[Mick Ohrberg]

Matt,

I use BigBrother, both at work and at home. It has generally been a very
pleasant experience, and since it can be free, that makes it all the more
interesting. Coupled with RRDtools and the larrd module, you can get some
pretty nice trending capabilities, plus the ability to write your own
modules for monitoring system. PLUS, there's a repository online for bb -
www.deatcat.net (I wonder if that's a sly reference to Schroedingers' Cat,
since it's about monitoring...). There are modules for *NIX, NT/2000, VMS,
MVS, AS/400, SNMP - just about anything you can think of. At work I monitor
NT/2000, AIX, Linux and OpenVMS. 

	/Mick

| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net 
| [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Matt G
| Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:13 AM
| To: kclug at kclug.org
| Subject: Big Brother (bb4)...
| 
| 
| Hey there....
| 
| Is anyone out there using this product?  (www.bb4.com/)  I 
| saw it in action at my last place of work...seems pretty 
| cool.  If you have used this, and now use something better, 
| what is it?
| 
| I tried installing it a few weeks ago and realzied I needed 
| to step back and understand apache a bit more first.  I think 
| I'll give it another shot.  If anyone has this running,  and 
| wouldn't mind some installation questions, let me know.
| 
| Thanks
| Matt
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