[Xymon] Merging some add-ons into Xymon source code

[SebA]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 23:15, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote:

> On 3/26/19 11:49 AM, SebA wrote:
> > I think merging some add-ons into the Xymon source code should be
> considered where those add-ons would be widely used, subject to licensing
> restrictions.
> >
> > For example, and I have not yet tested this add-on, but a way to alert
> on processes using too much memory looks increasingly useful to me
> (together with graphing of memory for
> > certain processes):
> > http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-procmem/
> > Ideally the shell code that add-on uses would be converted to support in
> the C code so that this could be configured in analysis.cfg rather than
> hosts.cfg though.
> >
> > Another example is Xymondash:
> > https://github.com/daduke/Xymondash
> > I haven't used it yet either, but it sounds good. Having said that,
> development on that shouldn't be stymied by locking it to Xymon releases -
> and it requires Python >= 3.5 (or
> > 3.4).  Maybe as a post-installation task Xymon could ask if you wish to
> install it, check dependencies, ask a few questions, download and install
> it?
> > It would be good to be able to present a more modern GUI as part of
> Xymon.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > SebA
> >
>
> If you've not tested the functionality, why on earth would you think it
> should be merged? *just* because it's JS/JSON?
>

I didn't say it should be merged.  I was just giving a few examples of
add-ons that cover functionality that should be considered for merging /
adding to the Xymon core package.  Maybe the subject of the thread and
initial wording was misleading, and I apologize for that.


> The procmem tool is somewhat interesting but if you KNOW have a process
> that needs to be monitored for it's memory use, don't you think that an
> indication of an issue with that
> process that needs fixing? Ya know, memory leaks ARE kind of considered
> very to be bad form, or maybe that's just me.
>

Well, maybe we could just monitor the memory usage of all processes on the
same rrd chart - that way it shouldn't get too big - is that correct?


> That said, I do a "kill -9" on devmon and restart it via cron because I
> know it balloons on my system;  I know it because xymon told me something
> was using up memory.  Once I did
> the diagnosis of what and how often, my remedial action was to just kill
> it off and restart it.  Inelegant perhaps, but I seem to be the only one
> experiencing this particular
> issue.  Why would I do monitoring on it rather than fixing the issue if
> not the process?  Seems like asking how many angels can I get to dance on
> the head of a pin and when exactly
> do they start falling off.
>

How did you do the diagnosis of how often it would need restarting?
Process memory monitoring is what you need to determine how bad the memory
leak is and how often something would need restarting.  Maybe you ran ps
via cron and put that into a log file and then analysed that - but it's
easier to look at a chart.

Kind regards,

SebA
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