About 2 years ago, somebody might recall the exact date, I do not, I grabbed a single month's worth of mailing list, and examined every posting.<br>From them, I extracted and distilled each question and useful answer into a Q&A document. Something along the lines of a FAQ.<br>
I posted it on the list, and invited others to grab a month and do likewise.<br>I was overwhelmed with apathy. :-(<br>On a positive note, TJ added my Q&As to the Wiki. (Thanks TJ)<br>See here <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/FAQ">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/FAQ</a><br>
I think I was responsible for some of these. TJ - can you remember?<br>My most (in)famous one being the one about "when is the next version due" <br>That certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons. :-)<br><br>You don't need to be a Jedi Master level to distil posts into basic Q&As.<br>
Anybody can do it. Even me.<br>Grab a month, announce it, and let rip.<br>I will make it easy. <br>Add your name to a month below and repost (to prevent duplicate effort), and just do it.<br><br>02/2010 - <br>01/2010 - <br>
12/2009 -<br>11/2009 -<br>10/2009 -<br>09/2009 -<br>08/2009 - <br>07/2009 - <br>06/2009 - <br>05/2009 -<br>04/2009 -<br>03/2009 -<br>02/2009 -<br>01/2009 -<br>And there are more. Don't be shy. :-)<br><br>Cheers<br> V<br>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Jerald Sheets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com">questy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think Damien makes a good point. It appears, from his message, that he doesn't even know about the wiki.<br>
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Yes, there's a wiki.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit" target="_blank">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit</a><br>
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It's been my answer a number of times to very simple questions. It contains many of the things you need to get a basic install up and running and even contains some tutorials at writing your own checks in the NCV/RRD piece.<br>
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And Damien, even though you're not an "English natural speecher", your questions always show that you have at least made an effort to look around first. Now you have a wiki to add to your list of things!<br>
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Damien is a regular, contributing member of this mailing list, and I think gets precisely what I'm talking about. He goes out, looks, reads, and offers the knowledge he has already found then asks his question in light of what he's already learned on his own. That is *NOT* what I'm talking about.<br>
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I think this has been a good discussion all around. I went back and looked at the histories of several regular members here, and everyone is quite a good citizen. We seem to have some pop in from time to time and ask a question that clearly betrays they didn't so much as look at anything and just want to be spoon fed the answers every step of the way. That's what I was talking about last night.<br>
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In ANY event, let's keep this puppy rolling. I don't think there's anything out there better than Xymon. Let's all keep working to make it even better every single day.<br>
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On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:37 AM, <a href="mailto:doctor@makelofine.org">doctor@makelofine.org</a> wrote:<br>
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> Hi all,<br>
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> I agree with Jerald, but I'd like to moderate his speechs. On my side, I<br>
> sometime asked dummy questions, because I didn't know where to find the<br>
> answers.<br>
> Mailing list archive, Xymon UI help, man pages, FAQ & Tips on xymon<br>
> homepage... Many sources of informations.<br>
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> And as Maik said, we all are not english natural speechers. On my side, I<br>
> don't have to much difficulties to understand, but it's not always true.<br>
> So, I think 2 things can be done :<br>
> -Having a central information source, and several language in it.<br>
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> In order to centralize informations I think a wiki should be a good<br>
> approach. We could paste all informations from UI help, manpages, and FAQ &<br>
> Tips, then actualise them.<br>
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> I don't have much free time, but I can spend some hours to translate all<br>
> informations in french. I could be usefull to have german, and some asian<br>
> language (japanese, chinese...). As I don't know any word of theses<br>
> languages, I can't do it myself.<br>
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> Regards,<br>
> Damien<br>
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