[Xymon] why do you use xymon?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Jamison Maxwell <jamison at newasterisk.com>wrote:

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Would any of you mind telling me why you use xymon?

8.  clientless monitoring is possible (albeit limited, but you can

   still make sure your website is up!)

Actually, it should be possible to cat (most of) the xymon client script through ssh to a client system and feed the resulting client output to xymon. The *only* thing you need on the client side is a userid with ssh keys from the xymon server. I haven't actually tried that with xymon, but it definitely worked with Big Brother back in the day.

Ralph Mitchell