BigBrother or Hobbit monitoring tool for AIX 5.3 ?

[raylin]

What is the best and easiest to install monitoring tool of the two on the AIX 5.3 platform ?

 

[Breslau]

i'm not terribly familiar with the two, but i thought they're one in the same? hobbit just being a newer version of BB.

 

[cspilman]

Actually, BigBrother and Hobbit are not the same, although hobbit was 'inspired' by BigBrother. Hobbit is OpenSource, BigBrother is not.

About easiest to install; Don't know too much about Hobbit but I have installed BigBrother and its fairly straight forward. If you want graphing capabilities, though, you might run into some issues there. I know I did. It will require rrdtool and lard at a minimum. Then you have to configure BigBrother to use rrdtool and lard. Very painful in my experience.

Honestly, with my experience with it, if you want graphing, you might want to go with BigSister (also based off of BigBrother) as it was much easier to get the graphing to work.

http://bigsister.graeff.com/

Regards,
Chuck

 

[raylin]

first hurdle of Hobbit installation :

I installed the needed GNU Make from

http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/make.html

(version 3.81 = tar version for AIX 5.3)

The Hobbit configure script tests the existence of a GNU Make version :
GNU make is required to build Hobbit.
If it is available as "gmake", run configure as: 'MAKE=gmake ./configure.server'

After debugging the configure script I can see that there is a missing library :

/usr/local/bin/gmake -version
exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /usr/local/bin/gmake because of the following errors:
0509-150 Dependent module /usr/local/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.3) could not be loaded.
0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/local/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.3).
0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.


Where can I find this Library ?

I did not found it on the Public Domain Software Library :

http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/

nor on the IBM site AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications ...

 

[raylin]

in /usr/lib there is a link :
libintl.a -> /usr/opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a

but it contains only :

/usr/lib>ar -v -t libintl.a
rwxr-xr-x 0/0 47095 Apr 25 00:56 2002 libintl.so.1
rwxr-xr-x 0/0 3815 Apr 25 00:57 2002 shr.o

 

[raylin]

I found the the module libintl.so.3 of libintl.a in the gettext library :

http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/gettext.html