[Xymon] Curl client

[Ralph Mitchell]

I did the same a few years ago.  DoD was beginning to insist all network
traffic be encrypted, and I was just trying to get Xymon approved for
monitoring.  Rather than get into a recurring fight to justify plain text
on port 1984, I set up xymoncgimsg.cgi and wrote the delivery script to
talk to it.  I don't have all possible options covered, but I'm the only
one writing stuff for it...

I think it is responsible for a ton of junk showing up, though.  That
mainly manifests as graphs with weird names, or graphs that clearly don't
belong to the server they show up under.  I suspect that the webserver
doesn't always terminate the thread when the incoming connection drops,
so xymoncgimsg.cgi gets some or all of the report from the next server to
connect.  As well as oddly named disk and inode graphs, I also get graphs
with nanoseconds-since-time-began kind of numbers.

I'm looking forward to getting a xymon release with builtin encryption.

Ralph Mitchell



On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:

> On 3/05/19 15:21, Galen Johnson wrote:
> > Why not post it on xymonton.org <http://xymonton.org>?
> Why?
> Because it's not clear to me that is THE website to find xymon related
> information:
>
> - Latest news was posted on 2013-12-04.
> - Latest addon was posted a year ago, the one before was posted 4 years
> ago.
> - Tutorials and other pages use the bb / hobbit syntax. The rename from
> hobbit to xymon was in 2018.
>
>
> Stef
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