Package: hobbit-plugins (20120532)

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plugins for the Xymon network monitor

This package provides plugins for the Xymon network monitor. (Formerly called Hobbit.)

Included client plugins:

 * apt - check for outstanding updates
 * backuppc - check for errors reported by BackupPC servers (needs
   backuppc and sudo)
 * dirtyetc - check for conffiles which are modified compared to
   Debian's defaults but should not be (needs sudo and debsums,
   supports dphys-config)
 * dirtyvcs - check for dirty VCS working copies (supports Git,
   Mercurial, Bzr and Subversion, needs appropriate VCS packages
   installed)
 * entropy - check kernel entropy pool size
 * ipmi - read IPMI sensors and event log (needs ipmitool)
 * libs - check for running processes with upgraded libraries
   (needs lsof and sudo)
 * mailman - check for the existence of Mailman qfiles. (needs sudo)
 * mdstat - check for failed or resyncing RAID devices
 * mq - check (postfix's) mail queue
 * misc - meta plugin for running series of scripts (needs
   libsysadm-install-perl)
 * ntpq - check the ntpd daemon synchronization status (needs ntp)
 * postgres - statistics graphs for PostgreSQL databases (needs
   libdbd-pg-perl)
 * sftbnc - check if the local Postfix MTA has soft_bounce enabled.

Included server plugins:

 * aptdiff - monitor list of installed packages in host pools
 * conn6 - check IPv6 connectivity (needs fping)
 * ircbot - relay status changes to IRC (needs libpoe-component-irc-perl)
 * tftp - checks TFTP servers by downloading a file from them
   (needs libnet-tftp-perl)

Helper software:

 * Hobbit.pm: Perl module for writing plugins
 * xynagios: adaptor for running Nagios plugins with Xymon

Tags: System Administration: Monitoring, Hardware Enablement: Storage, Implemented in: implemented-in::perl, implemented-in::shell, Network Protocol: IPv6, IRC, Role: role::plugin, use::monitor, Works with: System Logs, works-with::mail, works-with::software:package, Version control system

Other Packages Related to hobbit-plugins

• dep: xymon-client

  client for the Xymon network monitor

  or hobbit-client

  virtual package provided by xymon-client

• rec: libsysadm-install-perl

  module for typical installation tasks of system administrators

• rec: lsof

  Utility to list open files

• rec: sudo (>= 1.7.2p1-1)

  Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
  also a virtual package provided by sudo-ldap

• sug: bzr

  easy to use distributed version control system

• sug: debsums

  tool for verification of installed package files against MD5 checksums

• sug: fping

  sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts

• sug: git

  fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

  or git-core

  fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (obsolete)
  also a virtual package provided by git

• sug: ipmitool

  utility for IPMI control with kernel driver or LAN interface

• sug: libdbd-pg-perl

  Perl DBI driver for the PostgreSQL database server

• sug: libnet-tftp-perl

  Perl module for accessing TFTP servers

• sug: libpoe-component-irc-perl

  POE Component for manipulating IRC sessions

• sug: mercurial

  easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system

• sug: ntp

  Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs

• sug: subversion

  Advanced version control system

• enh: backuppc

  high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs

• enh: dphys-config

  Tool to distribute config files

• enh: mailman

  Powerful, web-based mailing list manager

• enh: postfix

  High-performance mail transport agent

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