Thanks for the prompt reply guys, really appreciate that. The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small class project which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping) with minimal size of code.

I understand Xymon is powerful and runs fast in most of cases, but the best case is to make some minor changes based on Xymon simply because I can't just take Xymon and turn it in as my project.

My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test, but keep the framework and style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder)

Anyone has idea about how I can achieve this goal? Any opinion will be greatly appreciated! Thanks again!

James

I guess the problem is James wants the web display as well, though I agree it seems like a huge amount of effort to strip out all the things you don't need just to get the things that you want.

@James, since you are looking at the code for Xymon you probably understand C. I would suggest, without doing the project for you, that you use the basic xymonping.c code for the networking stuff and write your own HTML provider. It can be as simple as something that generate new HTML pages every 5 minutes and uses Apache as the web server...

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: 27 November 2012 02:55 To: James Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?

Xymon seems like a LOT of overhead for a simple ping test.

What about something like bash?

while true; do until ping -c1 -W2 192.168.1.1 &>/dev/null; do sleep 3 done

echo "ping success"

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:44 PM, James <kfc.android at gmail.com<mailto:kfc.android at gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply guys, really appreciate that. The reason why I want to modify Xymon is because I'm working on a small class project which only need a simple networking-related function (in my case: ping) with minimal size of code.

I understand Xymon is powerful and runs fast in most of cases, but the best case is to make some minor changes based on Xymon simply because I can't just take Xymon and turn it in as my project.

My optimal goal is: to use minimal amount of code to perform a ping test, but keep the framework and style of Xymon. (Now I'm reading Xymonping.c file under /xymonnet folder)

Anyone has idea about how I can achieve this goal? Any opinion will be greatly appreciated! Thanks again!

James

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Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point. My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality.

Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need? Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider?

Betsy, Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code) But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program. Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.

James

Thanks for the reply, Roland, What you pointed seems like a very straight forward process, however, I'm still figuring out all those .cfg and .c files in Xymon (I call Xymon a package because it includes a lot of folders/files) and I guess it takes a while to get a good understanding. What I am going to do now is to continue my study on "Xymonping.c" and then "Xymonserver.cfg" One silly question, is Xymon (in my case Xymon-4.3.10) shipped with both server and client? If so, I can ignore those files which belong to client side, right? Thanks for the advisory, I really appreciate that :D

James

2012/11/27 Roland Soderstrom <Rolands at logicaltech.com.au>

I would just compile the latest Xymon server with xymonping.****

Configure Apache2 as a webserver.****

Install Xymon and Edit xymonserver.cfg to your setup.****

Populate hosts.cfg with the hosts you want, you get a xymon page with all your ping hosts. (conn)****

That is a fairly basic and simple solution.****

Even if all that other code is there it is not really used.****

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4.3.10 has prepared packages, ready to install for a bunch of different distributions. (no compile req)****

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*From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *James *Sent:* Wednesday, 28 November 2012 8:23 AM *To:* betsy.schwartz at gmail.com; Martin.Ward at colt.net

*Cc:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?****

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Thanks, Martin! I think you got my point.****

My idea is just to keep Xymon's ping and web-page display function, like a "little Xymon" program****

which is based on Xymon but only have very limited functionality.****

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Maybe I can use the layout of how Xymon display the result and strip down the options I don't need?****

Or, if possible, could you please give me some hint about how to create my own HTML provider?****

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Betsy,****

Thanks for your advise, I learned that from one of my coding class, we were given the full source code ****

of a working program, and our instructor asked us to modify it to meet his requirement. (He purposely****

did this just want to let us know to write our own code is smarter to copy/modify someone's code)****

But this time is different, we were approved to use any open source program and modify it to meet****

our need. Maybe I can do as Martin said: take the part which I am needed, and make it a smaller program.****

Thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate time you've spent.****

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James****

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