Comparison of BB and Nagios - unfathomable nomenclature.

[Scot L. Harris]

LOL  

Just goes to show that while there is lots of data on the Internet you
still need to have some intelligence to turn that data into useful
information.

bbgen is an add on software package for Big Brother.  Just how far down
that google search did you have to go to dig that one up?

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 23:47, Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> 
> <Off topic>
> 
> I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:01:39PM -0800, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > 
> > Message: 3
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: Comparison of Big Brother and Nagios
> > From: "Scot L. Harris" <webid at cfl.rr.com>
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:49:19 -0500
> > 
> 
> > 
> > One major add on that any BB system should use is the bbgen add on.  It
> > improves performance significantly. 
> >
> 
> Perhaps this is unfair, but a google 'what is bbgen?' found
> 
> http://www.dctsystems.co.uk/RenderMan/bbgen.html
> 
> '
> Bounding Box Generator
> 
> The RenderMan DelayedReadArchive Procedural primitive, allows you to 
> defer loading parts of a scene into the renderer until they are actually 
> needed. For objects which are off-screen, you can avoid loading them
> altogether. In order to to this it is necessary to calcualate a bounding 
> box for the RIB archive which will be loaded in. 
> 
> Having created a RIB archive, simply run 
> 
> bbgen xxx.rib
> 
> and a bounding box will be printed out. This can then be used directly 
> as part of the RiProcedural command. The current version is 0.2, which 
> has numerous fixes and improvements over the original. 
> 
> Note that this program should be run on a RIB Archive, and not a 
> comeplete RIB. Unforunatly Angel does not currently support Procedural 
> calls. 
> 
> Limitations
> 
> Displacement bounds are ignored. 
> 
> Blobby objects are unsupported. 
> '
> 
> Wonderful documentation, reminiscent somewhat of javadoc.
> 
> It would seem that a BB user must know what a 'bounding box', 'rib' 
> (archive and complete favours), 'RiProcedural command', not to mention 
> 'Angel's (with or without procedural calls) and Blobby objects.
> 
> One of the extremely attractive elements of Nag is the low cost of
> entry; what it is and what it does, even how it does it, are
> comprehensible to almost anyone.
> 
> While there is a certain amount of Unix sophistication assumed, one does 
> not have to learn a new lexicon of terms, and any Nag terms such as 
> 'plugin' sound familiar.
> 
> In the same way that my personal limitations engender little excitement 
> in arcane concepts, even those with great utility such as design 
> patterns, it is hard to imagine seriously committing to a product with 
> documentation that needs to be examined seriously before getting 
> _anything_ out of it.
> 
> Looked at more positively, people should be 'blobby' thankful for the 
> highly effective Nagios documentation.
> 
> </Off topic>
> 
> Yours sincerely.
-- 
Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>



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