[Xymon] xymon as a drop-in bb replacement

[Sean MacGuire]

John Thurston wrote:
> We ran BB 1.9 for years, then switched to BBPE about three years ago. 
> Earlier this month, Quest announced end-of-life for BBPE so we're 
> looking at our options.
> 
> We have fewer than 500 clients reporting into Big Brother. But swapping 
> them out for something else is going to painful and take time. If a 
> xymon server will happily accept bb-client messages, then I could stand 
> up a xymon server and replace clients through attrition.
> 
> Has anyone else recently gone down this path?

If anyone on here is old enough - they might recognize me as the
original author of BB.  And, yes Quest End-of-Lifed it earlier
this month and I'm taking care of all the support until the EoL.

That having been said, I recommend moving to Xymon, and would
be happy to help any BBPE users in any way I can.
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