[Xymon] Is Xymon Alive?

[Ralph M]

There's a clientupdate option:

https://xymon.com/help/manpages/man1/clientupdate.1.html

I've never used it, but it would allow the server to send code updates.

Ralph Mitchell



On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 3:49 PM Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote:

>
> Some of those are true... The Xymon server can tell the client to run
> something IF the client has been pre-configured for it. I've never seen
> a config that allowed sending code to the client (upgrades?) and I've
> been using Xymon and it's predecessor, Big Brother, since 2000.  Are you
> maybe referring to remote logfetch via ssh?
>
> Out of the box, all of those "objections" for Xymon are true for Zabbix
> as well.
>
> Zabbix needs a MySQL instance set up to make it run too.
>
> Nagios is just plain "fussy" with the same objections to encryption and
> triple A.
>
> I think we all know what happened when the "secure" labyrinth called
> Solarwinds was breached.
>
> My point is that simple is good.  Simple is in your control.
>
> Your point John?
>
>
>
> On 6/8/21 12:17 PM, John Thurston wrote:
> > It is worth noting that out of the box:
> >
> > A) the Xymon client <> server communication channel is unencrypted TCP
> > B) there is neither authentication or authorization of that channel
> > C) any client may send valid messages for any hostname
> > D) the Xymon server may send arbitrary code to the client for execution
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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 6/8/2021 9:54 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> >> 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.
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