It works. It's cost effective. It's lightweight.
It fits my needs and environment.
If you need the average user (not able to edit text files) then you'll
need to find a solution to that, Zenoss may be one option. The other
would be to edit the bb-hosts (hosts.cfg) with the hobbitadmintools
(which may have been renamed to xymonadmintools at this point). The
question is what problem is the co-worker trying to solve?
Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Gore, David W (David)
<user-368fd67cc6bd@xymon.invalid> wrote:
1) Because we are a support group and we have no money
2) Easy to configure external scripts custom scripts to monitor our
applications, networks and operating systems, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP,
OpenVMS (Old BB client)
3) Light weight, runs on 2 old PCs, slimline desktop PC’s, that are a
thousand years old but can run Xymon
4) Because it’s opensource easy to use freeware that we can afford
If we needed to buy support or a consultant to install it. It would not be
the tool for us. We want something free, fast, easy to install and quick to
customize, in other words Xymon.
~David
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of
Jones, Elizabeth
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 20:46
To: Xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] why do you use xymon?
Would any of you mind telling me why you use xymon? I have a co-worker who
is pushing hard for zenoss, and his arguments include “gui discovery tool”,
“no hand editing of config files”, “it is an enterprise level monitoring
system and you can buy support and bring in a consultant to set it up for
you”, and the ever popular “everyone is using zenoss now”.
Elizabeth Jones