[Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon client design (was Xymon is practically dead)

[Jerald Sheets]

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On Jul 2, 2010, at 11:27 AM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Tom
> 
> Hope you don't mind I changed the subject and cc to
> hobbitmon-developer on this topic.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Tom Georgoulias
> <tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
>> On 07/02/2010 05:47 AM, Neil Franken wrote:
>> 
>>> Xymon is just one part of the equation for me. I see a lot of
>>> potential for Xymon in the Windows world but the BBWin client is well
>>> a very quiet project as well. I am not sure yet if we would maybe
>>> fork the code or create a new client. At this point I would suggest
>>> that maybe we look at a Java based client for xymon so we can run on
>>> a huge variety of platforms with one client. Anyway the whole client
>>> is a whole different ball game.
>> 
>> I would not be in favor of a java based client, the current design is much
>> better on unix systems.  It's one of the reasons xymon works well.
>> 
> 
> I can understand why Neil has this idea, it flashed in brain before.
> Why not write once and run every where ?
> The idea is good but there is resources needed to convert hobbit
> client into java.
> Who are going to do it ?
> 
> Back to the existing hobbit client implementation.
> 
> I do have concerns about hobbitclient-OS??.sh shell script's programming style.
> There is no check return status of system command it call and there is
> no error handling when system command faild.
> I got many purple alert when one of the system command failed or
> didn't finish in time.
> 
> 

This looks like a job for the bug tracker!

Seriously...  While we're brainstorming like this, we shoul be capturing it all somewhere besides email, whether some project management tool, bugzilla, or whatever...



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