[hobbit] Working on Xymon Documentation

[Josh Luthman]

Learned - not learnt =P

Actually, embarrassingly enough, you speak better then many American
English speakers.

If you or anyone can explain it to me I will put it in Dia.

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts.”
--- Winston Churchill



On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:59 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Josh Luthman
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>> I don't think I know the best answers to those questions.
>
> That was just a few example questions I think using picture can help
> people understand better.
>
>> But it is most definitely drew - not drawed.  Is english not your
>> first language?
>
> Correct. English is the third language I learnt. It is hard to hide :)
>
> tj
>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, Josh
>>> Thanks for offering the help on Xymon Diagrams using Dia.
>>> I will upload a few xymon dia files that I drawed as template for you
>>> to carry on.
>>>
>>> There are many questions can be easily illustrated using dia.
>>> 1. What are relationships between hobbid and hobbit worker daemon ?
>>> 2. What kind of log files generated by which daemons ?
>>> 3. What is program layout of Hobbit server ?
>>> 4. What is program layout of hobbit clients ?
>>> 5. What is hobbit message looks like ?
>>> 6. What is Xymon High Availability on LAN ?
>>> 7. What is  Xymon High Availability over WAN ?
>>> 8. What is relationship of hobbit client binary and log files?
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> tj
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Josh Luthman
>>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>>> I can offer my help with 2 and 3.  I am by no means an expert, though.
>>>>
>>>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Josh Luthman
>>>>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Would you like me to proof before it is published?
>>>>>
>>>>> Proof read is not needed yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Need people that know (or not afraid of ) following keywords.
>>>>> 1. LaTeX/latex2pdf and basic svn skill.
>>>>> 2. Use dia do draw some xymon architecture diagrams.
>>>>> 3. Knowledge of Xymon client and server.
>>>>> 4. technical writing on Xymon subjects.
>>>>> 5. GNU Make.
>>>>> 6. Have Fedora 1X OS at home, or willing to login into my home
>>>>>     Fedora 13 machine for the above work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What I have so far,
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Xymon RTFM, the latex version of Henrik's doc work.
>>>>>    1.1 Need many updates since Hobbit has Has been reamed to Xymon.
>>>>>    1.2 Need much labor work to index keywords to generate correct index.
>>>>>          A very good example to use divide and conquer method with the
>>>>> help
>>>>>          of a few people.
>>>>>
>>>>> Following is vaporware.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Turn/enhance  Xymon Wiki book into LaTeX format.
>>>>>     Reuse Xymon RTFM book making framework to generate
>>>>>     2.1 Developer Guide.
>>>>>     2.2 User Guide.
>>>>>     2.3 Administrator Guide.
>>>>>     2.4 Overview slide.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will try to upload(not publish!!) the Xymon RTFM during this July 4th
>>>>> weekend.
>>>>>
>>>>> tj
>>>>>> On 7/3/10, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> According to R1, we now have 7 volunteers interested in Xymon
>>>>>>> documentation area.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am interested to find out who are willing to work on Item 2 of R2.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I started a few years back and never got to finish it.
>>>>>>> Henrik gave me S.F. commit privilege for this purpose. so I still own
>>>>>>> him the set of docs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I worked on this and later found I am really bad at English Writing.
>>>>>>> So I try to convert the troff files
>>>>>>> into latex file and have the book center around existing set of troff
>>>>>>> files.
>>>>>>> I got a RTFM xymon book for my me and my colleague to study Xymon with.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> New I have a two data sources issue, latex and troff files. So every
>>>>>>> time troff files changed
>>>>>>> latex file need to be changed as well. This is quite labor intensive.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I looked around and found there is latex2troff file converter, the
>>>>>>> make process can generate troff file.
>>>>>>> If we can have all team members use latex then we can generate all
>>>>>>> Xymon doc into different formats use latex.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For now I like to invite people interested about this xymon-latex
>>>>>>> project to join me.
>>>>>>> I will clean up and upload my existing work to S.F.
>>>>>>> sandbox/tjyang/docs directory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lots of work here to generate Xymon docs set(using latex)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> tj
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> R1:
>>>>>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
>>>>>>> R2:
>>>>>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_Documentation
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> T.J. Yang
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>>>> Suite 1337
>>>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>>>
>>>>>> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>>>> continue that counts.”
>>>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>> Suite 1337
>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>
>>>> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>> continue that counts.”
>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>>
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>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>> continue that counts.”
>> --- Winston Churchill
>>
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