$Id: README.Big-Brother,v 1.1 1998/01/13 05:36:03 trockij Exp $

Notes for Big Brother fans
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To help the Big Brother fans that wish to switch over to using mon,
I've provided a simple script that will convert a Big Brother "bb-hosts"
file into a usable mon-compatible script. It should generate a working
script that can deal with Big Brother's http, ftp, smtp, pop3, and
ping tests. It will not convert your page alerts, because I couldn't
figure out how to do this in under 8 minutes :)

To convert bb-hosts, run

convert-bb-hosts bb-hosts > converted-to-mon.cf

You'll want to edit converted-to-mon.cf and substitute "user" with
the email address of the administrator to be emailed upon failures.
Each service check is staggered in time, so that everything doesn't
happen at once, but you can change this if you'd like.

This should get you up and running, but you *REALLY* want to re-write
your config file to take advantage of mon's features. The first thing
you probably want to take a stab at is using hostgroups, and adding
paging if needed.


Jim Trocki
trockij@transmeta.com
