[hobbit] Working on Xymon Documentation

[TJ Yang]

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> I don't think I know the best answers to those questions.

That was just a few example questions I think using picture can help
people understand better.

> But it is most definitely drew - not drawed.  Is english not your
> first language?

Correct. English is the third language I learnt. It is hard to hide :)

tj
> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Josh
>> Thanks for offering the help on Xymon Diagrams using Dia.
>> I will upload a few xymon dia files that I drawed as template for you
>> to carry on.
>>
>> There are many questions can be easily illustrated using dia.
>> 1. What are relationships between hobbid and hobbit worker daemon ?
>> 2. What kind of log files generated by which daemons ?
>> 3. What is program layout of Hobbit server ?
>> 4. What is program layout of hobbit clients ?
>> 5. What is hobbit message looks like ?
>> 6. What is Xymon High Availability on LAN ?
>> 7. What is  Xymon High Availability over WAN ?
>> 8. What is relationship of hobbit client binary and log files?
>> ...
>>
>>
>> tj
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Josh Luthman
>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>> I can offer my help with 2 and 3.  I am by no means an expert, though.
>>>
>>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Josh Luthman
>>>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>>>> Would you like me to proof before it is published?
>>>>
>>>> Proof read is not needed yet.
>>>>
>>>> Need people that know (or not afraid of ) following keywords.
>>>> 1. LaTeX/latex2pdf and basic svn skill.
>>>> 2. Use dia do draw some xymon architecture diagrams.
>>>> 3. Knowledge of Xymon client and server.
>>>> 4. technical writing on Xymon subjects.
>>>> 5. GNU Make.
>>>> 6. Have Fedora 1X OS at home, or willing to login into my home
>>>>     Fedora 13 machine for the above work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What I have so far,
>>>>
>>>> 1. Xymon RTFM, the latex version of Henrik's doc work.
>>>>    1.1 Need many updates since Hobbit has Has been reamed to Xymon.
>>>>    1.2 Need much labor work to index keywords to generate correct index.
>>>>          A very good example to use divide and conquer method with the
>>>> help
>>>>          of a few people.
>>>>
>>>> Following is vaporware.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Turn/enhance  Xymon Wiki book into LaTeX format.
>>>>     Reuse Xymon RTFM book making framework to generate
>>>>     2.1 Developer Guide.
>>>>     2.2 User Guide.
>>>>     2.3 Administrator Guide.
>>>>     2.4 Overview slide.
>>>>
>>>> I will try to upload(not publish!!) the Xymon RTFM during this July 4th
>>>> weekend.
>>>>
>>>> tj
>>>>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> According to R1, we now have 7 volunteers interested in Xymon
>>>>>> documentation area.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am interested to find out who are willing to work on Item 2 of R2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I started a few years back and never got to finish it.
>>>>>> Henrik gave me S.F. commit privilege for this purpose. so I still own
>>>>>> him the set of docs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I worked on this and later found I am really bad at English Writing.
>>>>>> So I try to convert the troff files
>>>>>> into latex file and have the book center around existing set of troff
>>>>>> files.
>>>>>> I got a RTFM xymon book for my me and my colleague to study Xymon with.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> New I have a two data sources issue, latex and troff files. So every
>>>>>> time troff files changed
>>>>>> latex file need to be changed as well. This is quite labor intensive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I looked around and found there is latex2troff file converter, the
>>>>>> make process can generate troff file.
>>>>>> If we can have all team members use latex then we can generate all
>>>>>> Xymon doc into different formats use latex.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For now I like to invite people interested about this xymon-latex
>>>>>> project to join me.
>>>>>> I will clean up and upload my existing work to S.F.
>>>>>> sandbox/tjyang/docs directory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lots of work here to generate Xymon docs set(using latex)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tj
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> R1:
>>>>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
>>>>>> R2:
>>>>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_Documentation
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> T.J. Yang
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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