[Xymon] Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

[Phil Crooker]

Heh, maybe I should say ‘au revoir’ instead…   ;-)


From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Ball
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Indeed.  A couple of years ago, I started a contract at a place which had no monitoring yet, because ‘We have a monitoring project to spec and install the “latest and greatest whizz-bang tool” – it will be up and running "soon"’. I was designing and building loads of new systems from scratch (to provide paid-for, managed application services for this company's customers), and setting up the config management, so could embed the monitoring client for whatever tool they wanted, as part of the automated build process.

Fine, I said – I'll just set up Xymon for now, so we have something (I played it down, not wanting to put any noses out of joint) whilst awaiting the outcome of the project.  I referred to it as the “Interim monitoring solution”.

I finished my contract a year later.  Another year after that, Xymon is still running and providing all the monitoring and alerting (and dug them out of many holes over the course of that time).  The customers are told that there is a whizz-bang all-singing and dancing integrated monitoring and alerting system in place.

The other project is still in the pilot stage…

On 30/04/2019 16:38, John Thurston wrote:

I've seen similar scenarios over the last twenty years. But because our Big Brother (now Xymon) was so simple to run, we suggested it just continue to run in parallel while the new solution was completed, and our workflow and business processes were updated.

You can guess the rest.

—    Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston    907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov<mailto:John.Thurston at alaska.gov> Department of Administration State of Alaska

On 4/30/2019 4:24 AM, EDSchminke at Hormel.com<mailto:EDSchminke at Hormel.com> wrote:

We had also switched to a new fangled, whiz-bang monitoring solution and it just-- wasn't-- working out. We finally decided to pull the plug and switch back to Xymon because it just friggin' works.

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