Project direction and next steps - feedback requested

Would it be practical to implement network encryption for IPv4, then circle back for IPv6 later?  I don't really know what's involved in that, but I have several thousand clients using my own curl script to report, because I'm required to use encrypted connections.

I tried compiling on RHEL10 last week.  There's a problem there to address - pcre has been deprecated and replaced with pcre2.  The old pcre is still present up to RHEL9, but it's missing in 10.  I;ll take a look and see what I can do with it, but I'm not a hot-shot programmer so it might take a while.

Ralph Mitchell

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM Mark Felder via Xymon <xymon@xymon.com> wrote:

On 1/15/26 10:31, Stef Coene wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also want to help. I'm not a C programmer, but I can help with
> documentation and testing.
>
> I also have some small patches and enhancements that I want to contribute.
>
> Like wget and curl drop-in replacement scripts for the xymon binary for
> encrypted https communication between client and server.
>
> I also have a patch to allow for a filter in the graphs so you can easy
> filter the data you want to display.
> And a patch for a list of rrd files so you can create graphs with
> exactly the data you want. We are using this to display disks graphs
> with all the disks for an AIX volume group. The URL is generated with an
> external scripts to include the needed disks.
>
>

Stef, I think you posted about these on the mailing list a long time ago
and I found them when I was going through mailing list history since the
last release. Very very interested in these additions too. The trick to
submit the client data over HTTPS was very clever -- I was about to
build that myself.
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