Thanks for the reply, Roland,<div>What you pointed seems like a very straight forward process, however, I'm still figuring out all those .cfg and .c files in Xymon (I call Xymon a package because it includes a lot of folders/files) and I guess it takes a while to get a good understanding.</div>
<div>What I am going to do now is to continue my study on "Xymonping.c" and then "Xymonserver.cfg"</div><div>One silly question, is Xymon (in my case Xymon-4.3.10) shipped with both server and client? If so, I can ignore those files which belong to client side, right?</div>
<div>Thanks for the advisory, I really appreciate that :D</div><div><br></div><div>James</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/27 Roland Soderstrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Rolands@logicaltech.com.au" target="_blank">Rolands@logicaltech.com.au</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I would just compile the latest Xymon server with xymonping.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Configure Apache2 as a webserver.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Install Xymon and Edit xymonserver.cfg to your setup.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Populate hosts.cfg with the hosts you want, you get a xymon page with all your ping hosts. (conn)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That is a fairly basic and simple solution.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Even if all that other code is there it is not really used.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">4.3.10 has prepared packages, ready to install for a bunch of different distributions. (no compile req)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>James<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 28 November 2012 8:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:betsy.schwartz@gmail.com" target="_blank">betsy.schwartz@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:Martin.Ward@colt.net" target="_blank">Martin.Ward@colt.net</a></span></p><div class="im"><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?<u></u><u></u></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point.<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Best,<div>James</div><br>
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