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

[Ward, Martin]

I guess the problem is James wants the web display as well, though I agree it seems like a huge amount of effort to strip out all the things you don't need just to get the things that you want.

@James, since you are looking at the code for Xymon you probably understand C. I would suggest, without doing the project for you, that you use the basic xymonping.c code for the networking stuff and write your own HTML provider. It can be as simple as something that generate new HTML pages every 5 minutes and uses Apache as the web server...

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: 27 November 2012 02:55
To: James
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?

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<mailto: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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