RES: Is the xymon Dead? Future

Hello All,

I agree with SebA on this issue. I count on Xymon and it has proven itself
many times over. But there needs to be seen a roadmap. I get comments about
Xymon being so 80's but I answer back with how Xymon gets the job done. But
we are in seriously changing times with so much being done in the virtual,
containerized and micro-kernel areas. There is an array of "cloud" hosting
options. Maybe a discussion is needed on what Xymon will do and will not do
in the future.


On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 6:11 AM SebA <user-4631430d620a@xymon.invalid> wrote:

The lack of releases (and commits - there are commits after the last
release, but only 2) on the *nix side is concerning.  IPv6 support may have
been something that people thought would be needed, and then wasn't so much
in demand, but I think that demand would be there if Xymon had good support
for Docker container monitoring.  With the increasing use of Docker, Xymon
needs to be able monitor Docker containers or it will die a slow death (and
it may already be too late).

Many years ago, I pushed for Xymon to be moved from VCS to SVN to promote
community contributions.  Git, specifically GitHub, has replaced SVN as the
best thing to promote community contributions, and I think it would be
beneficial if the official Xymon code repos are migrated to GitHub.  (There
is an unofficial sync project to sync a lot of SVN projects to GitHub but
the project has recently closed: https://github.com/svn2github/xymon)

Kind regards,

SebA


On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 12:02, Felipe Ribeiro <user-675193762e07@xymon.invalid> wrote:

The last update that I could find is the 4.3.28 dated on 2017-01-18 since
them I don’t see any other update even alpha/beta.


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*De:* Richard L. Hamilton <user-af55987f6d56@xymon.invalid>
*Enviada em:* quinta-feira, 7 de março de 2019 17:54
*Para:* Felipe Ribeiro <user-675193762e07@xymon.invalid>
*Cc:* Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
*Assunto:* Re: [Xymon] Is the xymon Dead? Future


You can see updates being checked in at the sourceforge repository, so
it's not dead.  Someone doing the work will have to tell you what features
may be added.  IPv6 support has been one of those, but I don't know how
much progress has been made.


On Mar 7, 2019, at 13:13, Felipe Ribeiro <user-675193762e07@xymon.invalid> wrote:


Hello,

I'm working on a company that uses xymon for almost the beggining.


We enjoy the view that xymon can provid us, using html plugin, we could
make some very good sensors.


But, we are afraid mainly cause the last update whore on 2017, and we
don’t know for how long it will be compatible with clients.


So, my questions are, what's next? There’s something going on with the
project? It'll someday gain an MYSQL historic ?


Or, even there's some monitoring system that you are looking at with the
same organized visual aspect (Page -> Group -> Host -> Plugin) ?

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