RE: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead

[Johan Sjöberg <johan.sjoberg (at) deltamanagement.se>]

Hi.

I just want to say that I am really glad that you people are planning to resurrect the Xymon development. My company has started considering a switch to another monitoring software because of the non-existent development, but I would really like to stay with Xymon. If I could code and had some more time to spare I would be happy to help, but I don't think I can contribute much at the moment.
Have you set up any plans regarding the future development? Are you going to follow the roadmap that Henrik posted on the list a long time ago?

Keep up the great work,
Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: TJ Yang [mailto:tjyang2001 (at) gmail.com] 
Sent: den 2 juli 2010 08:03
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Neil Franken
<nfranken (at) theunlimitedworld.co.za> wrote:
> Put me up for:
>
> 1)      Development
>
> 2)      Documentation
>
> 3)      Support
>
Done, you are 21st person answered the call for help.
>
> At the moment I am busy with another project so my spare time is kinda of
> eaten up. However this project will come to a close in a month more or less
> and i will have much more free time to help. Like I mentioned to some of you
> I am working on some new layout for the web gui and will have some templates
> for you guys in a week. I will also create some documentation around using
> Wireshark and the Xymon Protocol.

This will be a great howto addition to wikibook howto.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO

Thanks
>
>
> Regards
>
> Neil
>
>
>
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com]
> Sent: 02 July 2010 06:06 AM
>
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:16 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:57 PM, David Baldwin
> <david.baldwin (at) ausport.gov.au> wrote:
>> TJ Yang wrote:
>>>> Before a new admin is chosen, I think it would be a good idea to create
>>>> a
>>>> list of the tasks and responsibilities that the volunteer(s) would be
>>>> taking
>>>> on.  It doesn't have to be a complete list, but just something that
>>>> covers
>>>> the major points.  If you want to be an active developer (and I hope
>>>> that
>>>> you do, as you know the code better than anyone and can help others get
>>>> up
>>>> to speed), it would be nice to know what the admin(s) should be helping
>>>> you
>>>> with.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How about this ?
>>>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_resource_allocation
>>>
>
> It is renamed as
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
>
>>> If no objection, I will put in more effort complete the table.
>>> tj
>>>
>> Good stuff to see all this activity which is very timely in ensuring
>> that hobbit/xymon has a viable future.
>>
>> I am also keen to be involved. I've done quite a lot of custom tests
>
> I take that as a Yes. You are tagged as Volunteer in Dev area.
>
>> mostly written in perl, devmon templates, custom graphs, etc. Good
>> intentions to get an installable xymon package for MacOSX that would be
>> good to get kicked along as part of this momentum.
>
> David, I once created an OS X .pkg file from command line approach.
> But the package was just an binary untar, no package script actions
> from pre-flight,post-flight  .pkg script.
> I am hoping to work on this again with your help.
>
> tj
>
>> Occasionally I've
>> dived into the C source and diagnosed some bugs. Haven't read the doco
>> enough either - keep finding hidden gems which I expect others may have
>> missed as well.
>
>  I've poked around a bit in the source and written a lot of checkout scripts
> for web pages and other things.  Unfortunately that was mostly at my last
> employer, and I may not be able to introduce Xymon to my current employer.
> That will severely  any development I might do, but I can proofread docs for
> spelling and grammer, if not for technical accuracy...
>
> I've also been doing a bit of end used support in the mailing list.
>
> Ralph Mitchell



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T.J. Yang

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