On Mon, September 25, 2023 13:59, nor krie wrote:
These are excellent news, JC!
I'm about to discuss Xymon as the central monitoring solution with a new
customer, and the PoC was almost cancelled as the project seems to be
dead
from their standpoint. In these days something looks insecure and
outdated
very fast even if the framework is quite mature and stable and much more
flexible as a lot of other, feature overloaded solutions imho.
Especially the announcement of encrypted communication will help a lot
for
the discussion with customer. I'm looking forward for the 4.4. beta and
will compile and implement it immediately at my test envs once it is
available.
I wonder if xymonton is still the only (and preferred) place to add
custom
extension scripts and howtos? It also looks quite silent but I can add
several addons and some hints for customization for the GUI and so on,
based on my experience with dozens of implementations (up to 20k
servers).
Figuring out how best to organize information is indeed a question.
I believe Galen is still running xymonton.org, and additional monitors and
scripts are always welcome. Between that, the guides at
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon , the man-page
archive you would find at https://xymon.com/help/manpages/ , the webpage
at https://xymon.sourceforge.io/, and the actual SF resources at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/, and this mailing list at
https://lists.xymon.com/ , that's a lot of disparate sources of info.
Still very open to ideas on how to best combine these resources in a way
that makes sense to neophytes (and everyone else). I think a wiki
absolutely has to be a part of it, as community knowledge is often driven
by use-cases and solution write-ups, which kind of go hand-in-hand with
monitors and plugins as posted to xymonton.
Regards,
-jc