I have decided to start blogging again, but since I am a systems administrator – the logical thing to do is to start blogging about tech stuff. Wich I will.
I have recently set up a monitoring system on one of the sites I work on. The choice was Hobbit (a few days later the project was renamed Xymon because of legal issues). Hobbit is a wonderful thing, but the docs are lacking.
I have written set-up instructions (for the client side) wich are avalible on http://system.keilir.net/ – my hopes are that Google will find them soon.
The problem is that Hobbit does not provide any good documents on how it all comes together, it is rather hard to understand how it actually works if you have never set it up before.
But I came across this page – http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon