[hobbit] Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?

Fri Mar 5 23:24:06 CET 2010

Seriously.

1.  I hope he's ok.  
2.  I'm about to pitch this thing to replace all our monitoring.  :)

Ok, a little selfish, I know, but I'm primarily worried about Henrik.

--j

On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:

> I think we all just want to hear Henrik say "Hello, I'm busy at work".
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> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:24 PM, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:
>> More importantly, does anyone know if Henrik is OK?  In the past when he has dropped off this list for a while he has warned people.   I hope he is safe and just overburdened with his real job.
>> 
>>      .....Bruce
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lennon, Padraig [mailto:Padraig.Lennon at pioneerinvestments.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:08 PM
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?
>> 
>> Yes I agree that the product does work, but as Josh says there is no visability on bug fixes, feature requests etc...
>> 
>> 
>> Padraig Lennon
>> Senior Systems Integration Engineer
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
>> Sent: 04 March 2010 20:57
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?
>> 
>> I would agree that it works as it stands but when people are finding
>> bugs and providing the answer to them but not making it to the
>> released copy for other people, that is what begins to concern me and
>> I am sure others.
>> 
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
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>> Troy, OH 45373
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>> "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>> continue that counts."
>> --- Winston Churchill
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Actually, I think Xymon has gotten so close to perfection that there is not
>>> much left to do without making fundamental architectural changes, or taking
>>> on huge tasks (like SNMP management).  PuTTY has not been updated in quite a
>>> while, either, and I am quite happy with what it does.
>>> 
>>> I am sure we would all like more features, or a more zippy GUI (or a GUI for
>>> admin), but you can make a lot of hay with Xymon as it sits right now.
>>> 
>>> If you search the archive you may find some notes from Henrik about futures,
>>> but since he has a day job he probably is not able to work on Xymon as much
>>> as he once did.
>>> 
>>> GLH
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Lennon, Padraig
>>> <Padraig.Lennon at pioneerinvestments.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to know where Xymon is going... It's a good product but its
>>>> not active enough from a development point of view..
>>>> 
>>>> Henrik I would not like to insult you or anyone else on this list but can
>>>> we have a definitive statement on the future of Xymon?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Padraig Lennon
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
>>>> Sent: 04 March 2010 17:38
>>>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?
>>>> 
>>>> I am concerned as well.  The last email Henrik posted on this list was
>>>> Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:21 AM.  Exactly four months ago today.
>>>> 
>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
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>>>> "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>>>> continue that counts."
>>>> --- Winston Churchill
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:31 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Cade Robinson <cade.robinson at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Is anyone maintaining xymon currently?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, in theory. These are people have write access to hobbit SVN tree.
>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=128058
>>>>> 
>>>>> Henrik is the project leader and doing most of the development work.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have several bugs that I have patches for that I am sure is affecting
>>>>>> others.  I have posted them but nothing gets commited to SVN.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the fix, I was able to confirm the "INCLUDE" bug, but I
>>>>> haven't have a chance to verify your patch on my test servers. I am
>>>>> hoping Henrik can make the commit happen after verification.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also I just hack my way through knowing a little C but I don't know if
>>>>>> the patches are right.  I know they fix my issues but don't know if
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> cause other issues.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am not confident to commit changes since I am still catching up
>>>>> (reading)on C and network programming books.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The last few commits to SVN have been done to the branches and nothing
>>>>>> done to "trunk" in over a year.  Isn't trunk supposed to be the latest
>>>>>> devel area and "branches" are releases?
>>>>> 
>>>>>> "trunk" is almost 200 commits behind branches which doesn't make a lot
>>>>>> of sense to me.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I see there are open bugs almost 5 years old so that doesn't look to be
>>>>>> used either.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So just curious if this project is still in development and if I could
>>>>>> be of help to get things fixed and maybe help get the SVN layout into
>>>>>> "best practice".
>>>>> 
>>>>> I hope Henrik can create you an S.F. hobbit developer account.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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