[Xymon] Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

[Adrian Ball]

Indeed.  A couple of years ago, I started a contract at a place which 
had no monitoring yet, because 'We have a monitoring project to spec and 
install the "latest and greatest whizz-bang tool" - it will be up and 
running "soon"'.
I was designing and building loads of new systems from scratch (to 
provide paid-for, managed application services for this company's 
customers), and setting up the config management, so could embed the 
monitoring client for whatever tool they wanted, as part of the 
automated build process.

Fine, I said - I'll just set up Xymon *for now*, so we have *something* 
(I played it down, not wanting to put any noses out of joint) whilst 
awaiting the outcome of the project.  I referred to it as the "Interim 
monitoring solution".

I finished my contract a year later.  Another year after that, Xymon is 
still running and providing all the monitoring and alerting (and dug 
them out of many holes over the course of that time).  The customers are 
told that there is a whizz-bang all-singing and dancing integrated 
monitoring and alerting system in place.

The other project is still in the pilot stage...


On 30/04/2019 16:38, John Thurston wrote:
> I've seen similar scenarios over the last twenty years. But because 
> our Big Brother (now Xymon) was so simple to run, we suggested it just 
> continue to run in parallel while the new solution was completed, and 
> our workflow and business processes were updated.
>
> You can guess the rest.
>
> -- 
>    Do things because you should, not just because you can.
>
> John Thurston    907-465-8591
> John.Thurston at alaska.gov
> Department of Administration
> State of Alaska
>
> On 4/30/2019 4:24 AM, EDSchminke at Hormel.com wrote:
>> We had also switched to a new
>> fangled, whiz-bang monitoring solution and it just-- wasn't-- working 
>> out.
>> We finally decided to pull the plug and switch back to Xymon because it
>> just friggin' works.
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