[Xymon] Is Xymon Alive?

[Bruce Ferrell]

Zabbix has it's own set of technical setup/operations hurdles and 
gotchas. While the possibility of outsourcing support for Zabbix is 
there...

I'd point out the lesson of Solarwinds... Having someone else to blame 
MAY leave you blind and open to catastrophe while feeling safe and 
secure until you've fallen off the cliff.

Xymon since it's earliest days, has followed a KISS (keep it simple 
stupid) principal.  Less to break that way.

The "worst", most technical thing I know about installing Xymon is 
building from source (my preferred method), but just about any modern 
Linux distro has binaries available.  The second "worst" thing is 
editing text files to configure it.  There have been configuration tools 
attempted, but to my knowledge, really gone nowhere.


On 6/8/21 10:26 AM, Malcolm Hunter wrote:
>
> It does the job, but administration is quite technical. It’s saved our 
> bacon many a time with various “enterprise” monitoring solutions 
> coming and going. Our upper management has been asking our team to 
> look into using Zabbix instead, which ticks the zero cost of entry box 
> but with the possibility of adding paid support.
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
> Windows 10
>
> *From: *Bruce Ferrell <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>
> *Sent: *08 June 2021 18:15
> *To: *xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Xymon] Is Xymon Alive?
>
> Xymon is very much alive and works so well it needs few updates... 
> Although It needs a little known subsystem, SNMP, to be better documented.
>
> On 6/8/21 6:30 AM, Daniel-- Ciesielski wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I had started implementing Xymon on a few machines to see if I
>     could get it to work (I haven’t touched Linux in almost 5 years).
>
>     Now upper management is expressing concerns that Xymon is dead
>     because the newest version is from 2019, and the documentation is
>     even older.
>
>     Does this project still have a team behind it? Or has it been left
>     “as is”?
>
>     Best Regards
>
>     Daniel
>
>
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