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

[Novosielski, Ryan]

Yes, client is only software meant to run on the client and send back local stats to the server. Even on a regular install, it's not required for every host.



From: James [mailto:kfc.android at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:57 PM
To: Roland Soderstrom <Rolands at logicaltech.com.au>
Cc: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?

Thanks for the reply, Roland,
What you pointed seems like a very straight forward process, however, I'm still figuring out all those .cfg and .c files in Xymon (I call Xymon a package because it includes a lot of folders/files) and I guess it takes a while to get a good understanding.
What I am going to do now is to continue my study on "Xymonping.c" and then "Xymonserver.cfg"
One silly question, is Xymon (in my case Xymon-4.3.10) shipped with both server and client? If so, I can ignore those files which belong to client side, right?
Thanks for the advisory, I really appreciate that :D

James


2012/11/27 Roland Soderstrom <Rolands at logicaltech.com.au<mailto:Rolands at logicaltech.com.au>>
I would just compile the latest Xymon server with xymonping.
Configure Apache2 as a webserver.
Install Xymon and Edit xymonserver.cfg to your setup.
Populate hosts.cfg with the hosts you want,  you get a xymon page with all your ping hosts. (conn)
That is a fairly basic and simple solution.
Even if all that other code is there it is not really used.

4.3.10 has prepared packages, ready to install for a bunch of different distributions. (no compile req)


-          Roland

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of James
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012 8:23 AM
To: betsy.schwartz at gmail.com<mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com>; Martin.Ward at colt.net<mailto:Martin.Ward at colt.net>

Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?

Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point.
My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program
which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality.

Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need?
Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider?

Betsy,
Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code
of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely
did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code)
But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet
our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program.
Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.

James


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Best,
James

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