[hobbit] Working on Xymon Documentation

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Sun Jul 4 05:54:29 CEST 2010


I don't think I know the best answers to those questions.

But it is most definitely drew - not drawed.  Is english not your
first language?

On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Josh
> Thanks for offering the help on Xymon Diagrams using Dia.
> I will upload a few xymon dia files that I drawed as template for you
> to carry on.
>
> There are many questions can be easily illustrated using dia.
> 1. What are relationships between hobbid and hobbit worker daemon ?
> 2. What kind of log files generated by which daemons ?
> 3. What is program layout of Hobbit server ?
> 4. What is program layout of hobbit clients ?
> 5. What is hobbit message looks like ?
> 6. What is Xymon High Availability on LAN ?
> 7. What is  Xymon High Availability over WAN ?
> 8. What is relationship of hobbit client binary and log files?
> ...
>
>
> tj
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Josh Luthman
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>> I can offer my help with 2 and 3.  I am by no means an expert, though.
>>
>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Josh Luthman
>>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>>> Would you like me to proof before it is published?
>>>
>>> Proof read is not needed yet.
>>>
>>> Need people that know (or not afraid of ) following keywords.
>>> 1. LaTeX/latex2pdf and basic svn skill.
>>> 2. Use dia do draw some xymon architecture diagrams.
>>> 3. Knowledge of Xymon client and server.
>>> 4. technical writing on Xymon subjects.
>>> 5. GNU Make.
>>> 6. Have Fedora 1X OS at home, or willing to login into my home
>>>     Fedora 13 machine for the above work.
>>>
>>>
>>> What I have so far,
>>>
>>> 1. Xymon RTFM, the latex version of Henrik's doc work.
>>>    1.1 Need many updates since Hobbit has Has been reamed to Xymon.
>>>    1.2 Need much labor work to index keywords to generate correct index.
>>>          A very good example to use divide and conquer method with the
>>> help
>>>          of a few people.
>>>
>>> Following is vaporware.
>>>
>>> 2. Turn/enhance  Xymon Wiki book into LaTeX format.
>>>     Reuse Xymon RTFM book making framework to generate
>>>     2.1 Developer Guide.
>>>     2.2 User Guide.
>>>     2.3 Administrator Guide.
>>>     2.4 Overview slide.
>>>
>>> I will try to upload(not publish!!) the Xymon RTFM during this July 4th
>>> weekend.
>>>
>>> tj
>>>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> According to R1, we now have 7 volunteers interested in Xymon
>>>>> documentation area.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am interested to find out who are willing to work on Item 2 of R2.
>>>>>
>>>>> I started a few years back and never got to finish it.
>>>>> Henrik gave me S.F. commit privilege for this purpose. so I still own
>>>>> him the set of docs.
>>>>>
>>>>> I worked on this and later found I am really bad at English Writing.
>>>>> So I try to convert the troff files
>>>>> into latex file and have the book center around existing set of troff
>>>>> files.
>>>>> I got a RTFM xymon book for my me and my colleague to study Xymon with.
>>>>>
>>>>> New I have a two data sources issue, latex and troff files. So every
>>>>> time troff files changed
>>>>> latex file need to be changed as well. This is quite labor intensive.
>>>>>
>>>>> I looked around and found there is latex2troff file converter, the
>>>>> make process can generate troff file.
>>>>> If we can have all team members use latex then we can generate all
>>>>> Xymon doc into different formats use latex.
>>>>>
>>>>> For now I like to invite people interested about this xymon-latex
>>>>> project to join me.
>>>>> I will clean up and upload my existing work to S.F.
>>>>> sandbox/tjyang/docs directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lots of work here to generate Xymon docs set(using latex)
>>>>>
>>>>> Please help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> tj
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> R1:
>>>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
>>>>> R2:
>>>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_Documentation
>>>>> --
>>>>> T.J. Yang
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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