[Xymon] Blog entry about Big Brother

[Francois Claire]

Hi Sean,


I've been starting working with BigBrother in 2001 and I followed up 
with Hobbit/Xymon.

This software is unique in flexibility and monitoring and helped a lot 
my daily job. What makes it so great about monitoring is its alarm 
management feature: displaying only what goes wrong (or might go wrong 
soon) and hiding what's running fine (because we don't care of what's 
running fine).
I'm surprised to see other monitoring software still don't think 
monitoring this way: they keep displaying nice graphs in beautiful 
colors and important alarms are lost in flows of useless SNMP queries. 
Those tools are at best "statistics gathering" tools and I found no one 
reaching the level of BB/xymon.

You've been the one who got this smart idea of doing monitoring this 
way, the one to implement it and make it available worldwide. Thank you 
very very very much for that.

Good luck for the future and I'm confident you'll find your way. I hope 
it'll cross Xymon's way....


Cheers,
Francois.