[Xymon] why do you use xymon?

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Vernon Everett
<everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Elizabeth
>
> I use Xymon specifically because it doesn't have the features you listed.
> I am not confined by what the "discovery tool" thinks it has found, nor
> what it believes the config should be.
> Ask any power user on this list, and you will find we have done some crazy
> shit to "fool" xymon into monitoring things it was never really designed to
> monitor, using data from multiple places in ways that shouldn't make sense.
>

Crazy...  Yeah...  At EDS I had a script that would go to each of
Travelocity's backend web servers, login as a user and go through the whole
process of searching for a flight from Tulsa to Dallas.  Another script
went to a couple of load-balanced American Airlines web sites and verified
that all of the servers were available *without* being able to touch each
one individually.  At one point I had about 3000 reports being generated by
various scripts running from cron, at intervals ranging from 30 seconds to
24 hours, all on a single-cpu, 733MHz DL380 with 512Mb ram.

 [snip]

> And while we are on the subject of support, does Zenoss give you direct
> access to the developers? Hi Henrik. :-)
>

Say Hi to Sean MacGuire too, one of the authors of Xymon's ancestor - Big
Brother!

Ralph Mitchell
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