[Xymon] MAGMA XYMon Web GUI Admin Now Available!

[Ralph Mitchell]

I have a collection of PHP scripts that use a sqlite database to handle
something like a CMDB.  Its main purpose is to spit out config files for
registers in stores.  It has tables for regions, store complexes, stores,
servers, registers, etc.  When we started a big rollout, I wrote a PHP
script to query the tables and generate a Xymon config file containing a
tree of sub-pages.  It would be easy to trigger that to create a new config
if a new server or register checks in.  It would be nice to have analysis
and alert info in the same sqlite database, but I haven't had time to get
it done.

The thing is, it fits a very specific need, and would require a lot of
changes to make it fit someone else's infrastructure.  I did look into
using one of the several open source CMDBs, but as I recall they were more
complicated than I needed at the time.

Ralph Mitchell



On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:45 PM, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>
wrote:

> On 1/5/2016 2:31 PM, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
>
>> Are folks actively using MAGMA? I'm been casting around for a practical
>> application to refresh my coding fu with, and since I love Xymon and use
>> it every day, I thought it might be useful / fun to play around with
>> enhancing the existing code (since it is GPL).
>>
>
> I looked at MAGMA and found it too heavy for my needs. I don't want to run
> an *AMP server just to manage my Xymon instance. The only thing it was
> going to make easier was editing alerts.cfg, and even that seemed
> marginally useful to me.
>
> I'm also thinking about hacking out some kind of tool that will take a
>> CSV formatted input file, and use it to generate a hosts.cfg . . .
>>
>
> We have an instance of Big Brother (I haven't seen the need to change it
> to Xymon as it currently meets the business need) which receives no
> interactive edits. The hosts.cfg is re-created by a script any time a
> change is made in our DNS zone file. It has run hands-off for years. So
> many years, in fact, that I kind of forget how it's doing it :)
>
> --
>    Do things because you should, not just because you can.
>
> John Thurston    907-465-8591
> John.Thurston at alaska.gov
> Enterprise Technology Services
> Department of Administration
> State of Alaska
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