[Xymon] Xymon, community, updates, and directions (was Re: Is this thing on?)

[Ryan Novosielski]

> On Aug 17, 2023, at 14:27, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, August 14, 2023 21:10, Berry van Sleeuwen wrote:
>> We recently migrated our server to SLES15 SP4 and found there are a few
>> network tools missing in the base, arp, netstat, ifconfig and route are
>> supposed to be replaced by "ip" and "ss" command. While similar the output
>> of these commands differs from the traditional tools so I guess that would
>> interfere with the processing of the command output. For now it's solved
>> by installing net-tools-deprecated but this might not be available in
>> future versions so we might need support for these commands. I don't now
>> if that is also the direction for other distributions, but it's at least
>> the case for Suse and OpenSuse.
> 
> Agreed; it's similar in the RHEL side. xymond_client updates that can
> interpret the output of ip and ss are probably called for now. While
> deprecated net-tools will stick around for sure for current systems, it's
> only a matter of time until they're removed, and in the meantime it's one
> less package to have to pull in for compatibility (and to explain).

Slash harass people to stop writing new code for/create dependencies on in 2022/2023. :-P 


> This probably goes higher on the list.

100% agreed.

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