[Xymon] Update on 4.4 (Alpha1 release)

[J.C. Cleaver]

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 In these days something looks insecure and outdated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