Installing the Hobbit monitor on lenny

Hobbit monitors your hosts, your network services, and anything else you configure it to do via extensions. Hobbit can periodically generate requests to network services – http, ftp, smtp and so on – and record if the service is responding as expected. You can also monitor local disk utilisation, logfiles and processes through the use of agents installed on the servers.

Before you install, make sure you have Apache web server installed.

1. Install hobbit packages

apt-get install hobbit hobbit-client hobbit-plugins


2. By default hobbit only allows connections from local host. Append the IP addresses you want to allow here in all three of the Allow from[…] lines like shown here (pico /etc/apache2/conf.d/hobbit)

Allow from localhost ::1/128 192.168.1.2


In this case I have added the 192.168.1.2 but you should replace it to the one on your computer

3. Create a user to access the administration section

htpasswd -c /etc/hobbit/hobbitpasswd {username}


4. Restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart


Now you can access the hobbit monitoring console on this location http://youservername/hobbit/ (Make sure you include the trailing slash)