Looking for Release Advice
Hi all,
I am a long time user of the wonderful Xymon product. I currently administer two servers running Xymon 4.3.7, monitoring about 1500 items combined across 4 continents. Needless to say I have not done an upgrade in quite some time. I am just starting a project to install a third Xymon server on our network to off load the monitoring of our European operations across 8 countries. I am looking for advice on the most stable recent release of Xymon for this new server. In addition, I am looking to upgrade my existing 4.3.7 servers to the release selected. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Bruce
Bruce White
Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | BeWhite at fellowes.com | www.fellowes.com<http://www.fellowes.com>
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On 4/27/2016 8:24 AM, White, Bruce wrote:
- snip - I am looking for advice on the most stable recent release of Xymon for this new server.
You don't say what operating system or platform you are targeting for your Xymon server. In my case (Solaris 10 on SPARC), I am satisfied with the most recent version of Xymon and can think of no reason to use anything older.
-- Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska
On Apr 27, 2016, at 13:12, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov> wrote:
On 4/27/2016 8:24 AM, White, Bruce wrote:
- snip - I am looking for advice on the most stable recent release of Xymon for this new server.
You don't say what operating system or platform you are targeting for your Xymon server. In my case (Solaris 10 on SPARC), I am satisfied with the most recent version of Xymon and can think of no reason to use anything older.
I've stayed current, with server on Solaris 11 and clients on Solaris 9 through 11 as well as Macs on Snow Leopard, Mavericks, and El Capitan; and a Linux VM or two. No problems, but I don't use features like email alerts, multiple server support, etc. I do use the client tar balls on the server for the clients to self-update (building on the oldest of each OS/architecture, which so far runs fine on the newer ones).
John,
Thanks for your input. You are right I did not mention the O/S or platform. We currently run HP DL380 G5s running RedHat 5. The new server is an IBM x86 machine, not sure the model as the Euro team is providing, but it will be built out with RedHat 6. We chose 6 because most of our Linux servers are on RedHat 6 and I am training a new admin as part of this project. I do not want to confuse him with RedHat 7 and all its differences.
..Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:12 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Looking for Release Advice
On 4/27/2016 8:24 AM, White, Bruce wrote:
- snip - I am looking for advice on the most stable recent release of Xymon for this new server.
You don't say what operating system or platform you are targeting for your Xymon server. In my case (Solaris 10 on SPARC), I am satisfied with the most recent version of Xymon and can think of no reason to use anything older.
-- Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | BeWhite at fellowes.com | www.fellowes.com
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I just finished a month ago or so upgrading my xymon servers from 4.3.10 on CentOS5 to 4.3.21 on CentOS6. 4.3.21 was the most recent when I started. We hit some bumps, and I had many projects going on a the same time.
One gotcha I hit, was that I tried upgrading my proxies before my main server. That didn't work. There was a change in messaging in there somewhere, and the 4.3.10 server couldn't understand the 4.3.21 proxies.
The clients were actually upgraded first, and those were fine.
I'll probably loop back to get the latest in a couple months. Assuming things slow down a bit.
Paul.
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of White, Bruce Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:58 PM To: 'John Thurston'; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Looking for Release Advice
John,
Thanks for your input. You are right I did not mention the O/S or platform. We currently run HP DL380 G5s running RedHat 5. The new server is an IBM x86 machine, not sure the model as the Euro team is providing, but it will be built out with RedHat 6. We chose 6 because most of our Linux servers are on RedHat 6 and I am training a new admin as part of this project. I do not want to confuse him with RedHat 7 and all its differences.
..Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:12 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Looking for Release Advice
On 4/27/2016 8:24 AM, White, Bruce wrote:
- snip - I am looking for advice on the most stable recent release of Xymon for this new server.
You don't say what operating system or platform you are targeting for your Xymon server. In my case (Solaris 10 on SPARC), I am satisfied with the most recent version of Xymon and can think of no reason to use anything older.
-- Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | BeWhite at fellowes.com | www.fellowes.com
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