Yes,

I absolutely agree with your remarks, Grant. Especially the purple alert for missing data is something that I miss at my current customers Icinga/Nagios implementation a lot (no news are good news does not work for a comprehensive monitoring solution).

But I want to add the huge advantage of the Xymon philosophy to collect a lot of data at low level (small client, limited client permissions needed, mostly out-of-the-box tools used) and do all the evaluation at the server side.

So all the information is available for further evaluation at the Xymon server.

Seldom need to touch the clients to change thresholds or add a graph.

This also makes it easy to create individual views for the parties involved. And, this is a huge point in my opinion, evaluate the centrally available data to create all kinds of reports (SLA, management summary reports, capacity analysis, inventory) and insert this into a CMDB.

With a working CMDB interconnection it is possible to automate the client rollout in case a new server is added (new entry in CMDB), and then get the inventory information from Xymon about it back into CMDB (hardware, OS, partition scheme, network, even serial numbers and firmware versions and so on). No server will be overlooked and the CMDB is always up-to-date.

(Btw: As feature request: it would be nice to have a RestAPI to get those info from the Xymon server.)

Glad to see progress in Xymon development!

Norbert

Am So., 1. März 2026 um 19:11 Uhr schrieb Grant Taylor via Xymon <xymon@xymon.com>:

Thank you for Xymon software and to the Xymon community.

I wanted to send a quick note saying that a month doesn't go by,
sometimes not even a week, I think to my self or slip and say "but Xymon
does that" when asking why some other monitoring solution doesn't catch
something that seems trivial.

The list of things that Xymon detects that other solutions have failed
to detect:

- incorrect time - CPU test
- lack of reports a la. PURPLE
- TLS certificate expiration - sslcert
- HTTP reply status codes - http

I'm sure there are many other things that have made me mumble to myself.

Yes, I know that other things can be configured to monitor some or all
of these things, but that requires additional effort. Conversely Xymon
just does it with no more effort than configuring it to look at a port.

But the incorrect time has been a BIG problem for many of of the other
monitoring solutions that my employer uses.

Xymon has made it extremely easy to monitor these things and has proven
to be EXTREMELY useful.

Thank you.

--
Grant. . . .
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