Xymon client design (was Xymon is practically dead)

Hi Tom

Java based client would only be for Windows, Mac-OS the unix one is perfect. Just thinking that a java project is not tied down to windows specifics like the bbwin problem we have. A Eclipse project will run in netbeans, jbuilder et with minimal effort. Since BBWin is just really a socket client with a timer thread I can do a Java client with minimal effort. Anyway just a idea we don't have to act on it.


Regards
Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: TJ Yang [mailto:user-61afc885aa73@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 02 July 2010 05:28 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid; user-f970bfd1395f@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Xymon client design (was Xymon is practically dead)

Hi, Tom

Hope you don't mind I changed the subject and cc to
hobbitmon-developer on this topic.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Tom Georgoulias
<user-6a0b8b0f0ae1@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 07/02/2010 05:47 AM, Neil Franken wrote:

Xymon is just one part of the equation for me. I see a lot of
potential for Xymon in the Windows world but the BBWin client is well
a very quiet project as well. I am not sure yet if we would maybe
fork the code or create a new client. At this point I would suggest
that maybe we look at a Java based client for xymon so we can run on
a huge variety of platforms with one client. Anyway the whole client
is a whole different ball game.

I would not be in favor of a java based client, the current design is much
better on unix systems.  It's one of the reasons xymon works well.

I can understand why Neil has this idea, it flashed in brain before.
Why not write once and run every where ?
The idea is good but there is resources needed to convert hobbit
client into java.
Who are going to do it ?

Back to the existing hobbit client implementation.

I do have concerns about hobbitclient-OS??.sh shell script's programming style.
There is no check return status of system command it call and there is
no error handling when system command faild.
I got many purple alert when one of the system command failed or
didn't finish in time.


tj

Tom

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T.J. Yang