[Xymon] Xymon v5 readiness

[Henrik Størner]

Hi,

the version that Christian has tested works pretty well. The LDAP
problem is on the "to-do" list, and the only other major issue is with
trend graphing of web content-checks (the rrd-files are not being updated).

I don't know if Christian tested IPv6, but since the actual changes to
support IPv6 are fairly simple, I would not expect a lot of problems
specifically in that area.

In other words, if you need IPv6 - go grab the current "trunk" version.
It includes the new xymonnet code that Christian mentions (he's been
testing it, so I thought he knew it was in already ...)

There's a message in the list archive describing how to setup version 5:
http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2013-July/037935.html


On a related note, it is obvious that the current development/release
model does not work. I suspect I will simply be cleaning up the current
trunk code and release it more or less "as is" and then fix bugs / add
features / handle regressions in smaller sub-releases.


Regards,
Henrik

Den 28-05-2014 07:24, Christian Herzog skrev:
> Good morning all,
> 
> we're pretty much in the same situation: in dire need of a IPv6 capable
> monitoring solution and waiting for v5.
> I extensively tested xymon-4.3.99-20130812 and it worked pretty well. The only
> faulty test was LDAP. It's also considerably faster than 4.3.x, so we'd be
> happy to deploy anytime now. Since then there's been talk of a xymonnet
> rewrite, but I don't know the status and I'm not aware of any more recent
> test versions.
> 
> HTH,
> -Christian
> 
> 
>   On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:50:04PM +1000, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>> Henrik
>>
>> I'm working on the imminent deployment of some new monitoring servers,
>> perhaps within the next 2 months.  For this roll-out, IPv6 is on the list
>> of highly-desirable features.  While Xymon v4.x has an extensive feature
>> list, I'm prepared to live with more basic functionality for some time, if
>> it's reliable enough on the core features (disk/mem/cpu client reporting to
>> central mode servers, ping and some simple network tests).  If we can bring
>> online a range of more advance features that are present in 4.x, in the
>> next 6 months, then that would be acceptable.  As we'll have redundant
>> (independent) Xymon servers, we'll be able to do some beta testing on one
>> of the servers.
>>
>> Would you recommend I stick with v4.x, or is the v5.x (trunk) reliable
>> enough in its core feature set to be worth a little extra potential pain
>> for a little while?  Or perhaps hedge bets and use v5.x on only one of the
>> Xymon servers?
>>
>> Can anyone report on their experiences with v5.x?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jeremy
> 
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