[Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?

[Josh Luthman]

Xymon seems like a LOT of overhead for a simple ping test.

What about something like bash?

while true; do
  until ping -c1 -W2 192.168.1.1 &>/dev/null; do
    sleep 3
  done

echo "ping success"

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:44 PM, James <kfc.android at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the prompt reply guys, really appreciate that.
> The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small
> class project
> which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping)
> with minimal size of code.
>
> I understand Xymon is powerful and runs fast in most of cases, but the
> best case is to make
> some minor changes based on Xymon simply because I can't just take Xymon
> and turn it in as my project.
>
> My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test,
> but keep the framework and
> style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder)
>
> Anyone has idea about how I can achieve this goal? Any opinion will be
> greatly appreciated!
> Thanks again!
>
> James
>
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