You'd have to define what "the mainframe" is.
You can look at the source in ./build to see Makefiles for various systems, including generic. And you can try to build it.
Alternatively, there is an extension called 'rclient' that can ssh into a remote server and run commands for you to pull data out of machines.
What it does is push a script out to the server in question and then run it, collecting the data. I use it for a Tripplite terminal server.
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Sutch, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 2:46 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] mainframe monitoring
Does anyone know if there is a client for the mainframe, or some way to monitor when a mainframe is up and the status besides a basic ping test?
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