On Mon, 12 Jan 2026, Mark Felder via Xymon wrote:
Is Henrik or JC Cleaver still working on Xymon? I am still the
maintainer of the packages on FreeBSD and have been crawling through
the mailing list archives, Debian packages, etc and have accumulated
a lot of patches that have never made it into a Xymon release. I'm
aware there's an Alpha of 4.4 with IPv6 support and a lot of changes
too, but it's very much unfinished last I saw (IPv6 for
client-server but Xymonnet not refactored to be able to execute IPv6
tests IIRC...)
Similar here, as one of the Debian maintainers of the package. We
maintain several patches for 4.3.30 in
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xymon/-/tree/master/debian/patches and
even more for 4.4alpha1 in
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xymon/-/tree/experimental/debian/patches
but the latter are not enough to use 4.4 in a production environment,
since there are still some open issues.
It would be great to have some shared GIT repo where all the patches
from different sources can be consolidated and where we can track open
issues, instead of doing duplicated work on different distributions...
I'd like to light the fire again. Xymon is something special and I
keep coming back to it. It's just the perfect amount of simplicity
and power to make monitoring things easy.
Same here. My employer uses this with over thousand hosts, several
custom addons (for server and client) and with devmon for SNMP
polling. And we didn't find a better alternative for our needs yet.
I'd be very happy to see activity in xymon development again.
Greetings
Roland