On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Vernon Everett
<user-b3f8dacb72c8@xymon.invalid>wrote:
Hi Elizabeth
I use Xymon specifically because it doesn't have the features you listed.
I am not confined by what the "discovery tool" thinks it has found, nor
what it believes the config should be.
Ask any power user on this list, and you will find we have done some crazy
shit to "fool" xymon into monitoring things it was never really designed to
monitor, using data from multiple places in ways that shouldn't make sense.
Crazy... Yeah... At EDS I had a script that would go to each of
Travelocity's backend web servers, login as a user and go through the whole
process of searching for a flight from Tulsa to Dallas. Another script
went to a couple of load-balanced American Airlines web sites and verified
that all of the servers were available *without* being able to touch each
one individually. At one point I had about 3000 reports being generated by
various scripts running from cron, at intervals ranging from 30 seconds to
24 hours, all on a single-cpu, 733MHz DL380 with 512Mb ram.
[snip]
And while we are on the subject of support, does Zenoss give you direct
access to the developers? Hi Henrik. :-)
Say Hi to Sean MacGuire too, one of the authors of Xymon's ancestor - Big
Brother!
Ralph Mitchell