[Xymon] Merging some add-ons into Xymon source code

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 3/26/2019 12:06 PM, John Thurston wrote:
> Does the procmem add-on not work just fine as is?
> Is it just the configuration-point which is annoying you?

I was looking at how something like this could be added in as well, but 
it'll be a bit of effort to convert it into the existing C testing loop.

It's definitely very useful as an add-on, though.

>
>> Another example is Xymondash:
>
> Oh please, no.    Read my sig.
>
> If I wanted a json xml javascript monster, I'd select from the myriad 
> of commercial products out there. We've run xymon/bb since the dawn of 
> time. In the last twenty years, several other monster products have 
> been brought in to "improve the look and feel" of our monitoring. All 
> have died an early death, leaving our simple xymon server doing its 
> duty and displaying its results.

I think there's a lot to like in xymondash, but for the moment cleaning 
up the existing interface and making most usable to users and add-ons 
would be the priority.

Adding JSON output to xymondxboard (xymondjboard?) should be considered 
a priority, however. That would probably aid in interoperation.

Regards,

-jc