[Xymon] Update on 4.4 (Alpha1 release)

[Galen Johnson]

I still maintain xymonton as best I can.

=G=

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 1:28 PM J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:

>
> On Mon, September 25, 2023 13:59, nor krie wrote:
> > These are excellent news, JC!
> >
> > I'm about to discuss Xymon as the central monitoring solution with a new
> > customer, and the PoC was almost cancelled as the project seems to be
> dead
> > from their standpoint. In these days something looks insecure and
> outdated
> > very fast even if the framework is quite mature and stable and much more
> > flexible as a lot of other, feature overloaded solutions imho.
> > Especially the announcement of encrypted communication will help a lot
> for
> > the discussion with customer. I'm looking forward for the 4.4. beta and
> > will compile and implement it immediately at my test envs once it is
> > available.
> >
> > I wonder if xymonton is still the only (and preferred) place to add
> custom
> > extension scripts and howtos? It also looks quite silent but I can add
> > several addons and some hints for customization for the GUI and so on,
> > based on my experience with dozens of implementations (up to 20k
> servers).
>
> Figuring out how best to organize information is indeed a question.
>
> I believe Galen is still running xymonton.org, and additional monitors and
> scripts are always welcome. Between that, the guides at
> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon , the man-page
> archive you would find at https://xymon.com/help/manpages/ , the webpage
> at https://xymon.sourceforge.io/, and the actual SF resources at
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/, and this mailing list at
> https://lists.xymon.com/ , that's a lot of disparate sources of info.
>
> Still very open to ideas on how to best combine these resources in a way
> that makes sense to neophytes (and everyone else). I think a wiki
> absolutely has to be a part of it, as community knowledge is often driven
> by use-cases and solution write-ups, which kind of go hand-in-hand with
> monitors and plugins as posted to xymonton.
>
>
> Regards,
> -jc
>
>
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