Neil;
Great tool, but it is java based...
.vp
Hi Henrik
Agreed. However I have done some experimenting with a package called JCrontab. It is a scheduler and what I do is schedule VBS scripts and other exe to run via this scheduler. The scheduler runs the scripts/program and reads from the standard io . Since all my scripts/exe write to the standard io I can return OS specific information to the Java application which in turn open a socket and writes to Xymon. It is very simple and extensible. Anyway just a thought. The more ideas we have to discuss the better.
Regards Neil
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: 02 July 2010 05:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk; hobbitmon-developer at lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon client design (was Xymon is practically dead)
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:27:41AM -0500, TJ Yang wrote:
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
On 07/02/2010 05:47 AM, Neil Franken wrote:
Xymon is just one part of the equation for me. I see a lot of potential for Xymon in the Windows world but the BBWin client is well a very quiet project as well. I am not sure yet if we would maybe fork the code or create a new client. At this point I would suggest that maybe we look at a Java based client for xymon so we can run on a huge variety of platforms with one client. Anyway the whole client is a whole different ball game.
I would not be in favor of a java based client, the current design is much better on unix systems. It's one of the reasons xymon works well.
I can understand why Neil has this idea, it flashed in brain before. Why not write once and run every where ?
One very simple reason: The client needs to know about the specifics of the operating system it is running on - that's the whole purpose of having a client! Java tries very hard to isolate the underlying OS from the apps running inside the JVM, which runs counter to this.
In other words - when you want to report on metrics specific to the OS, it doesn't really make sense to use an OS-agnostic tool.
Another reason is that the client shouldn't require a lot of additional software besides what comes with the OS. And the output from the OS-specific tools will be well known to the admins who are going to use the data from Xymon.
Regards, Henrik
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