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

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Le 02/07/2010 18:17, TJ Yang a écrit :
> How about P.M. tool like this http://code.google.com/p/xymon/ ?
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> tj
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> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Henrik Størner<henrik at hswn.dk>  wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:27:41AM -0500, TJ Yang wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Tom Georgoulias
>>> <tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com>  wrote:
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>>>> On 07/02/2010 05:47 AM, Neil Franken wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>> I can understand why Neil has this idea, it flashed in brain before.
>>> Why not write once and run every where ?
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>> One very simple reason: The client needs to know about the
>> specifics of the operating system it is running on - that's
>> the whole purpose of having a client! Java tries very hard to
>> isolate the underlying OS from the apps running inside the
>> JVM, which runs counter to this.
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>> In other words - when you want to report on metrics specific
>> to the OS, it doesn't really make sense to use an OS-agnostic
>> tool.
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>> Another reason is that the client shouldn't require a lot of
>> additional software besides what comes with the OS. And the
>> output from the OS-specific tools will be well known to the
>> admins who are going to use the data from Xymon.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Henrik
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Hi,

Is there an IRC channel, a forum or something more "live" than ML to 
discuss about xymon project ? I've some ideas, maybe stupids, that I 
could suggest