Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Take a look at the Xymon alert man page: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.htmlYou can specify a script to be executed for any given alert. The ALERT SCRIPTS section in the man page gives details of the environment variables passed in with the the alert information. So, you could write a script to send snmp traps.
That's good info, it looks like I can hack something together given that information.
The alerting failover issue sounds like a bit more of a challenge to get right.
So, the bottom line is that, while xymon is clearly superior to bb on several counts, it's still not a drop-in replacement for bb, as there are some key pieces of functionality missing.
Some of it looks to be fairly easy to fix - and maybe the fact that some assembly is required is actually a blessing in disguise - job security and all.
If I come up with something useful I'll contribute it back. Joe