[hobbit] XyMon client for Windows - XyWin.Net

[Rich Smrcina]

There's already a #xymon IRC channel that is grossly underutilized.

On 03/05/2010 06:27 PM, Lennon, Padraig wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> You should setup an IRC channel.. It works really well for projects
> getting off the ground..
>
> My 2 cents...
>
> Padraig
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred [mailto:fl8750 at laforest.biz]
> Sent: 05 March 2010 23:35
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] XyMon client for Windows - XyWin.Net
>
> Hi Neil,
>
> Very interested.  Take a look at the code section under the JBoss
> directory in the XyWin.Net project.  The example, JBossJvmStats inherits
> from the XyWinModule class.  The main method, ModuleRun, is called by
> XyWin control.  The XyWinTask reference passed to the module has a
> method which you use to pass any status messages for delivery to the
> server.  The plugin just create messages and leave it to XyWin main to
> worry about formatting and delivery.  The ConsoleTest directory has a
> simple minded example I use for testing.
>
> We should probably take this conversation offline or to the maillist I
> setup for XyWin.Net discussions since this is not directly XyMon
> development related.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
>
> Neil Franken wrote:
>    
>> Hi There
>>
>> We have a plug in for bbwin that we created called SQLMon. It allows
>> you to configure sql scripts to run for testing anything on MSSQL. I
>> use it to monitor my servers. We want to release it as open source.
>> Maybe you would like the code to incorporate into your system. It is
>> written in C#. With this plug-in we monitor replication status,
>> performance counter, sql transactions per second and so. If you can
>> write a query and define green, yellow or red status in a simple xml
>> file you can monitor it with this. While being used for bbwin it can
>> help you lay out the foundation for SQL specific tests.
>>
>> Would you be interested?
>>
>> Regards
>> neil
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xymon User in Richmond [mailto:hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net]
>> Sent: 05 March 2010 03:50 AM
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] XyMon client for Windows - XyWin.Net
>>
>> On Thu, March 4, 2010 16:52, Fred wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi Rich,
>>>
>>> No. BBwin does everything it says it can do.
>>>
>>> It is just that I want it to do a lot more.  To name a few items.
>>>
>>>      * Instead of initiating a connection to the XyMon server to
>>>
>>>        
>> deliver
>>
>>      
>>>        its messages, I want it to also wait for XyMon to initiate a
>>>        connection and then accept the Windows client messages.  This
>>>        
> is
>    
>>>        required with clients in a company DMZ.
>>>      * Support SSL encryption of client messages to XyMon
>>>      * Become a "proxy" to accept BBwin client messages from nearby
>>>        clients and then forward them to the XyMon server (either
>>>        immediately or wait for XyMon connection)
>>>      * Support sending to different combinations of servers
>>>      * Support alternate message formats (Standard BB text, XML, web
>>>        services, etc)
>>>      * etc
>>>
>>> Take a look at my "about" page at the
>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/xywinnet/about-xywin-net/
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Bless you for taking this on, Fred.  It will offer a more capable
>> alternative to BBWin, which can still be used where it meets
>> requirements and a .Net footprint is not desirable.
>>
>> On your "about" page, where you say "formally Hobbit", I think you
>> meant to write "formerly".
>>
>> regards,
>> j.
>>
>>
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