[Xymon] Thanks to JC

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 11/3/2016 6:02 PM, Jake wrote:
>
> Please pardon the gratuitous noise, but JC's yum repo has saved me at 
> least a couple of man days in building a Xymon monitor on Centos 7 for 
> a nonprofit that I now support pro bono, so I want to shout out.
>
> I was a Big Brother-->Hobbit-->Xymon practitioner from roughly the 
> beginning before retiring a year and a half ago.  I do Fedora (and 
> Xymon) at home, and was a bit out of touch with Red Hat and Centos.  
> Japheth's repo let me get the basic stuff up and running in an hour, 
> and I'm off to the races (took a couple of hours to do the Centos 7 
> netinstall because it wouldn't DHCP).  JC's repo is all the more 
> remarkable given that RPMFusion is as yet still unable to support 
> Centos 7.
>
> I do still need to work through monitoring, as best I can, an entirely 
> non-Linux setup.  XBlue VOIP phones, Ubiquiti wifi APs, Windows 2008 
> R2 server with SQL Server, Windows shares over a 3 point VPN.
>
> Also, large thanks to Sean and Henrik.
>
> Regards to all,
>
> Jake
>

Thank you! Glad that the packages helped! :)

Keeping up with the various changes going into EL7 was indeed quite the 
headache. A lot of the work in converting the configuration to occur 
outside of the runtime init script was due to what systemd was 
eventually going to require, but it felt like one surprise after another 
for a while.

Fortunately, many of the changes needed to get there have been 
integrated into 4.x-master as part of the other work, so making things a 
good EL7 citizen is much, much easier...

[rpmbuild@ SPECS]$ grep -i '^%patch' -c xymon.spec xymon-alpha.spec
xymon.spec:285
xymon-alpha.spec:39


Regards,
-jc