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Hobbit is the successor to the bbgen toolkit, which
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has been available as an add-on to Big Brother since late 2002.
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The name change was decided upon when Hobbit acquired enough
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functionality to be a stand-alone product. The tools that formed
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the bbgen toolkit are still present in Hobbit and are quite
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important for it, so if you have used bbgen before, Hobbit
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will seem quite familiar.
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Hobbit monitors your hosts, your network services, and anything else
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you configure it to do via extensions. Hobbit will
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periodically generate requests to network services - http, ftp,
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smtp and so on - and record if the service is responding as
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expected. Through the use of agents installed on the servers,
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you can also monitor local disk utilisation, logfiles and processes.
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