[Xymon] Version 5 with IPv6 - anyone for testing? And some news ...

[Christian Herzog]

Good morning Henrik,

thanks for the good news. I'm compiling the new version as we speak. I'll keep
you posted as we progress.

cheers,
-Christian


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:18:29AM +0200, Henrik Størner wrote:
> On 24-07-2013 08:07, Christian Herzog wrote:
> >>On 22-07-2013 08:53, Christian Herzog wrote:
> >>>- do you have any indication when v5 will be ready for prime time
> >>
> >>Barring unforeseen events, I think there will be a version ready for
> >>testing mid-september. It will probably require some shakedown,
> >>since there is a lot of new code, but a release during the autumn
> >>should be possible.
> 
> >thanks a lot for this encouraging update. We'll stand by with our test setup,
> >ready to get our hands dirty.
> 
> Okay .... if you really want to get dirty, then I have some code
> waiting for all of you to test. Head over to
> http://www.xymon.com/misc/ and grab the 4.3.99.<date> tar-file.
> 
> (Or grab the latest trunk from Sourceforge's SVN archive).
> 
> NOTE: I strongly recommend that you run this in a test setup - or at
> least be prepared to break your current installation. At least,
> backup your xymon installation directory and the *.chk files in the
> server/tmp/ directory.
> 
> 
> Building it should be well-known, except that you need two more
> libraries: The new network test module uses an SQLite3 database
> internally, and xymond now needs the "zlib" library - so those must
> be installed, including any "developer" packages.
> 
> On Debian, I have the libsqlite3-0:amd64, libsqlite3-dev:amd64 and
> sqlite3 packages for SQLite3; and the zlib1g:amd64 and
> zlib1g-dev:amd64 packages for zlib.
> 
> 
> make - make install
> 
> 
> Make sure that the xymond/etcfiles/protocols2.cfg file is installed
> in you server/etc/ directory. The old protocols.cfg is no longer
> used.
> 
> Make sure the server/bin/fping4 and fping6 programs are suid-root;
> if not then "chown 0 server/bin/fping*; chmod u+s server/bin/fping*"
> as root.
> 
> Start Xymon and see what happens :-o
> 
> 
> The new network module runs as a daemon, so don't be surprised that
> it runs all the time. xymonnet2 does the normal network checks (tcp
> tests), and the "netmodule ping" job handles all of the ping checks.
> 
> "ping" status is now reported in a "ping" column. This will change
> before the final release.
> 
> If a host has both an IPv4 and IPv6 address, then Xymon will test
> the IPv4 address only. You cannot change that right now.
> 
> SSL certificate status is not yet there. We have the data, but don't
> generate the status update yet.
> 
> LDAP- and RPC-checks are not implemented yet.
> 
> Some of the more exotic details are also missing, e.g. pinging hosts
> with multiple IP's.
> 
> 
> What I am most interested in right now is - does it work at all ?
> Does it crash ? You'll probably need to add "--debug" options to the
> new commands, but be warned: There's a lot of debug output.
> 
> 
> Now a bit of personal news: Those of you who have followed Xymon
> development over the years may know that I have been working for CSC
> while writing Xymon. Xymon has been used a lot at CSC here in
> Copenhagen, so doing special Xymon customisation was also part of my
> work there.
> 
> But times are changing, and I have decided to leave CSC. On Thursday
> I start in a new job at KMD - a local danish IT company providing IT
> services for a lot of danish public-sector companies, but also
> moving in to the general outsourcing business.
> 
> My new employer knows about the work I do on Xymon, and although I
> probably won't be able to work in Xymon as part of my employment, it
> will continue to grow as the Open Source project it has always been.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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