[Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?

Thanks for the reply, Roland,
What you pointed seems like a very straight forward process, however, I'm
still figuring out all those .cfg and .c files in Xymon (I call Xymon a
package because it includes a lot of folders/files) and I guess it takes a
while to get a good understanding.
What I am going to do now is to continue my study on "Xymonping.c" and then
"Xymonserver.cfg"
One silly question, is Xymon (in my case Xymon-4.3.10) shipped with both
server and client? If so, I can ignore those files which belong to client
side, right?
Thanks for the advisory, I really appreciate that :D

James


2012/11/27 Roland Soderstrom <user-0cec9512a49f@xymon.invalid>

 I would just compile the latest Xymon server with xymonping.****

Configure Apache2 as a webserver.****

Install Xymon and Edit xymonserver.cfg to your setup.****

Populate hosts.cfg with the hosts you want,  you get a xymon page with all
your ping hosts. (conn)****

That is a fairly basic and simple solution.****

Even if all that other code is there it is not really used.****

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4.3.10 has prepared packages, ready to install for a bunch of different
distributions. (no compile req)****

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**-          **Roland****

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*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?****

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Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point.****

My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a
"little Xymon" program****

which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality.****

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Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down
the options I don't need?****

Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my
own HTML provider?****

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Betsy,****

Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we
were given the full source code ****

of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his
requirement. (He purposely****

did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to
copy/modify someone's code)****

But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source
program and modify it to meet****

our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed,
and make it a smaller program.****

Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.****

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James****

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Best,
James