[hobbit] XyMon client for Windows - XyWin.Net

[Josh Luthman]

I am in the channel already.  Are you?

On 3/5/10, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> There's already a #xymon IRC channel that is grossly underutilized.
>
> On 03/05/2010 06:27 PM, Lennon, Padraig wrote:
>> Hi Fred,
>>
>> You should setup an IRC channel.. It works really well for projects
>> getting off the ground..
>>
>> My 2 cents...
>>
>> Padraig
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Fred [mailto:fl8750 at laforest.biz]
>> Sent: 05 March 2010 23:35
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] XyMon client for Windows - XyWin.Net
>>
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> Very interested.  Take a look at the code section under the JBoss
>> directory in the XyWin.Net project.  The example, JBossJvmStats inherits
>> from the XyWinModule class.  The main method, ModuleRun, is called by
>> XyWin control.  The XyWinTask reference passed to the module has a
>> method which you use to pass any status messages for delivery to the
>> server.  The plugin just create messages and leave it to XyWin main to
>> worry about formatting and delivery.  The ConsoleTest directory has a
>> simple minded example I use for testing.
>>
>> We should probably take this conversation offline or to the maillist I
>> setup for XyWin.Net discussions since this is not directly XyMon
>> development related.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> Neil Franken wrote:
>>
>>> Hi There
>>>
>>> We have a plug in for bbwin that we created called SQLMon. It allows
>>> you to configure sql scripts to run for testing anything on MSSQL. I
>>> use it to monitor my servers. We want to release it as open source.
>>> Maybe you would like the code to incorporate into your system. It is
>>> written in C#. With this plug-in we monitor replication status,
>>> performance counter, sql transactions per second and so. If you can
>>> write a query and define green, yellow or red status in a simple xml
>>> file you can monitor it with this. While being used for bbwin it can
>>> help you lay out the foundation for SQL specific tests.
>>>
>>> Would you be interested?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> neil
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Xymon User in Richmond [mailto:hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net]
>>> Sent: 05 March 2010 03:50 AM
>>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] XyMon client for Windows - XyWin.Net
>>>
>>> On Thu, March 4, 2010 16:52, Fred wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Rich,
>>>>
>>>> No. BBwin does everything it says it can do.
>>>>
>>>> It is just that I want it to do a lot more.  To name a few items.
>>>>
>>>>      * Instead of initiating a connection to the XyMon server to
>>>>
>>>>
>>> deliver
>>>
>>>
>>>>        its messages, I want it to also wait for XyMon to initiate a
>>>>        connection and then accept the Windows client messages.  This
>>>>
>> is
>>
>>>>        required with clients in a company DMZ.
>>>>      * Support SSL encryption of client messages to XyMon
>>>>      * Become a "proxy" to accept BBwin client messages from nearby
>>>>        clients and then forward them to the XyMon server (either
>>>>        immediately or wait for XyMon connection)
>>>>      * Support sending to different combinations of servers
>>>>      * Support alternate message formats (Standard BB text, XML, web
>>>>        services, etc)
>>>>      * etc
>>>>
>>>> Take a look at my "about" page at the
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/xywinnet/about-xywin-net/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Bless you for taking this on, Fred.  It will offer a more capable
>>> alternative to BBWin, which can still be used where it meets
>>> requirements and a .Net footprint is not desirable.
>>>
>>> On your "about" page, where you say "formally Hobbit", I think you
>>> meant to write "formerly".
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> j.
>>>
>>>
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