On 10/11/08 8:13 AM, "Barton Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nagios and Hobbit are a naive solution for very small operations. > They can be > a very > small part of what operations want, but any installation wanting to manage > multiple > servers has more complete z/VM and Linux requirements. Tools based on simple > availability > and CP Indicates don't meet any knowledgable set of requirements. If this is your understanding of the capabilities of Nagios and Hobbit, then you need to take another look, minus the attitude and blinders. Both offer the ability to conduct active testing of an application outside of the application host without an agent installed on the application host, as well as a library of pre-built and user-contributed application test modules.