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Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon client design (was Xymon is practically dead)
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- Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon client design (was Xymon is practically dead)
- From: TJ Yang <tjyang2001 (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:17:11 -0500
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How about P.M. tool like this http://code.google.com/p/xymon/ ?
tj
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik (at) hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:27:41AM -0500, TJ Yang wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Tom Georgoulias
>> <tomg (at) mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
>> > On 07/02/2010 05:47 AM, Neil Franken wrote:
>> >
>> >> Xymon is just one part of the equation for me. I see a lot of
>> >> potential for Xymon in the Windows world but the BBWin client is well
>> >> a very quiet project as well. I am not sure yet if we would maybe
>> >> fork the code or create a new client. At this point I would suggest
>> >> that maybe we look at a Java based client for xymon so we can run on
>> >> a huge variety of platforms with one client. Anyway the whole client
>> >> is a whole different ball game.
>> >
>> > I would not be in favor of a java based client, the current design is much
>> > better on unix systems. It's one of the reasons xymon works well.
>> >
>>
>> I can understand why Neil has this idea, it flashed in brain before.
>> Why not write once and run every where ?
>
> One very simple reason: The client needs to know about the
> specifics of the operating system it is running on - that's
> the whole purpose of having a client! Java tries very hard to
> isolate the underlying OS from the apps running inside the
> JVM, which runs counter to this.
>
> In other words - when you want to report on metrics specific
> to the OS, it doesn't really make sense to use an OS-agnostic
> tool.
>
> Another reason is that the client shouldn't require a lot of
> additional software besides what comes with the OS. And the
> output from the OS-specific tools will be well known to the
> admins who are going to use the data from Xymon.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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T.J. Yang