I still maintain xymonton as best I can.
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 1:28 PM J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
On Mon, September 25, 2023 13:59, nor krie wrote:
These are excellent news, JC!
I'm about to discuss Xymon as the central monitoring solution with a new customer, and the PoC was almost cancelled as the project seems to be dead from their standpoint. In these days something looks insecure and outdated very fast even if the framework is quite mature and stable and much more flexible as a lot of other, feature overloaded solutions imho. Especially the announcement of encrypted communication will help a lot for the discussion with customer. I'm looking forward for the 4.4. beta and will compile and implement it immediately at my test envs once it is available.
I wonder if xymonton is still the only (and preferred) place to add custom extension scripts and howtos? It also looks quite silent but I can add several addons and some hints for customization for the GUI and so on, based on my experience with dozens of implementations (up to 20k servers).
Figuring out how best to organize information is indeed a question.
I believe Galen is still running xymonton.org, and additional monitors and scripts are always welcome. Between that, the guides at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon , the man-page archive you would find at https://xymon.com/help/manpages/ , the webpage at https://xymon.sourceforge.io/, and the actual SF resources at https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/, and this mailing list at https://lists.xymon.com/ , that's a lot of disparate sources of info.
Still very open to ideas on how to best combine these resources in a way that makes sense to neophytes (and everyone else). I think a wiki absolutely has to be a part of it, as community knowledge is often driven by use-cases and solution write-ups, which kind of go hand-in-hand with monitors and plugins as posted to xymonton.
Regards, -jc
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