[Xymon] Xymon on the Cloud

[Isaac W Traxler]

I am currently running my server on a IBM xSeries 336 (dual 2.6 GHz 
Pentium 4, 2 GB ram). Below are teh details from the xymonnet page that 
show hosts, tests, ... This basically says all tests done by server are 
completed within 43 seconds (26 of that is DNS).

xymond report tells me I average 6 incoming status messages a second from 
the clients. Load average for this server stays below 0.3 (last 2 days). 
For last two days, it totals 94% idle.

In other words, the server does not need much memory or cpu -- especially 
if you distribute the tests to clients. Xymon supports central testing as 
well as distributed testing. I tend to distribute as much of the testing 
as I can/as makes sense (the client runs the test and merely reports 
status to server).

Feel free to contact me directly if you would like more info or details.

Statistics:
  Hosts total           :      195
  Hosts with no tests   :       52
  Total test count      :      302
  Status messages       :      299
  Alert status msgs     :        0
  Transmissions         :       10

DNS statistics:
  # hostnames resolved  :      185
  # succesful           :      160
  # failed              :        9
  # calls to dnsresolve :      302

TCP test statistics:
  # TCP tests total     :      153
  # HTTP tests          :       42
  # Simple TCP tests    :      111
  # Connection attempts :      153
  # bytes written       :     6687
  # bytes read          :   319512


TIME SPENT
Event                                    Duration
xymonnet startup                         -
Service definitions loaded                0.009486
Tests loaded                              0.067078
DNS lookups completed                     0.014878
Test engine setup completed               0.009364
TCP tests completed                      12.034578
PING test completed (127 hosts)           1.854515
PING test results sent                    0.001574
Test result collection completed          0.000515
LDAP test engine setup completed          0.000001
LDAP tests executed                       0.000000
LDAP tests result collection completed    0.000001
DNS tests executed                       26.670769
NTP tests executed                        2.997217
RPC tests executed                        0.011561
Test results transmitted                  0.005600
xymonnet completed                        0.004003
TIME TOTAL                               43.681140



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Isaac Traxler
Storage & Infrastructure Manager
High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University, LONI
325 Frey Computing Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225-578-1923 | traxler at lsu.edu


On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Matthew Gregory wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:16:01
> From: Matthew Gregory <matthew at adultliteracy.ac.nz>
> To: Xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [Xymon] Xymon on the Cloud
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> Morning or Evening, Everyone.
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> I am looking at deploying Xymon, through the Google Cloud Compute service, I sadly have no space for a physical server and was wondering if can Zymon
>  can run on an low amount of ram and CPU.
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