While the main view/non-green view may seem outdated, it's the very simplicity of it that is attractive. Compare to Nagios or Hyperic or pretty much any other solution...you have a simple, at a glance view of exactly where your problems are. Admittedly, it does lose a bit when you have hundreds (thousands) of machines but it is still one of the primary comparisons I use for other vendors that come in and want to replace Xymon.

That said, I find the mind map view that you've chosen to be interesting. It could also be a heat map view like http://finviz.com/map.ashx (I kinda prefer this due to it's simplicity).

=G=

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Morsiani, Massimo [massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 5:30 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension

Hi,

what a great surprise !!!

We really need to fill the GUI gap. Screenshots looking promising. One H U G E thank you for your work.

Regards.

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Cami Sardinha Sent: lunedì 26 novembre 2012 08:05 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension

Howdy All,

We're working on a new (animated) front-end for Xymon which allows you to have different views into your environment. It's called "MAPÉ" (pronounced: MAP-EE).

The project was started because the default "Main View" / "Non-green" view is quite outdated and such a great monitoring system needs a new face. We would love to get some feedback on the current screenshots and the roadmap (preferably on the mailing list).

Instead of subjecting everyone to screenshots, you can take a look at it: http://mape.hack.co.za

The first milestone has been reached with a dynamic / animated tree and will be up for download once we got a bit of discussion going around where we should be headed.

Regards, Cami

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Cami Sardinha <cami at hack.co.za> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>wrote:

That is one of the issues currently. We have thousands of hosts currently

and things can spiral quite quickly.

...

That said, I find the mind map view that you've chosen to be interesting. It could also be a heat map view like http://finviz.com/map.ashx (I kinda prefer this due to it's simplicity).

We have our "heatmap" version coming in Stage 2 (Zoomable Pack Extension on the Roadmap). While we have it working in production, it does need to be polished up a bit. The managers seem to love it since you can quickly spot issues and drill down directly to the root cause.

We're planning for a release tomorrow as everything looks on track. Just to give you an idea of the type of heatmap we're going for, I've uploaded some screenshots of it in production. The colors can be changed, its quite harsh on the eyes at the moment but you get a fairly good idea of where its headed: http://mape.hack.co.za/?page_id=38

Feel free to fire off any comments

Regards, Cami

Hi all,

Just a quick mail to say there is a download link posted with installation instructions listed on the site ( http://mape.hack.co.za ). Feel free to provide comments or ideas either off or on list.

Cheers, Cami

Only one other note...If the "organization" is set to something "long", only around 9 characters show up.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:57 AM To: Cami Sardinha; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension

Very nice, Cami.

I'm wondering about the roadmap...I see that step 1.4 will generate hovering info for red/yellow hosts...will there also be an option to click on the host, in question, to get directly to the alarms? For that matter, will there be an option to click on green hosts to go to their info?

Thanks again...this is a great looking tool.

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Cami Sardinha Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:28 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension

Hi all,

Just a quick mail to say there is a download link posted with installation instructions listed on the

site ( http://mape.hack.co.za ). Feel free to provide comments or ideas either off or on list.

Cheers,

Cami

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Mike Burger < Mike.Burger at freedommortgage.com> wrote:

Very nice, Cami.****

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I’m wondering about the roadmap…I see that step 1.4 will generate hovering info for red/yellow hosts…will there also be an option to click on the host, in question, to get directly to the alarms? For that matter, will there be an option to click on green hosts to go to their info?

We can add the option certainly to have it clickable and take it to a (configurable) page. As for green hosts, that is doable as well. Will add both of them to the TODO list.

Thanks, Cami

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:

Any chance of getting the files hosted somewhere else (Xymonton,SourceForge)? Your site is blocked from my worksite, probably because of the 'hack' in the name.

Possibly, if there is a wider requirement for it. Having to maintain code and submit it to multiple places isn't a fun task.

Regards, Cami

Hello

The screenshot looks good.

I'm installing it :))

be carefull, there is some hard path in parse-config.pl

Path to MAPE config

my %config = do "/usr/local/xymon/server/www/MAPE/etc/config.pl";

after fixing it, i run the parse-config.pl file but nothing happens and the URL /xymon/MAPE is black.

After checking the file parse-config.pl it appears it opens hosts.cfg.

But my config is using include parameters, so my real config (hosts definitions) are not here but in another file (hosts.d/customer/ALL).

It could be great to integrate this kind of setup.

Anyway, after setting directly the hosts.d/customer/ALL, now it generates the file data.php

[root at cmsbs-mn01-new:/opt/xymon/server/www/MAPE/data ] 84 du -sh data.php 4.8M data.php

But still black page when going to /xymon/MAPE/index.php

Nothing in httpd error log.

Any advice ?

cheers.

Nico

Le 28 nov. 2012 à 15:27, Cami Sardinha <cami at hack.co.za> a écrit :

Hi all,

Just a quick mail to say there is a download link posted with installation instructions listed on the site ( http://mape.hack.co.za ). Feel free to provide comments or ideas either off or on list.

Cheers, Cami

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Hi

i just sent it directly to you in another mail.

thanks for your help.

Cheers Nico

Le 28 nov. 2012 à 20:22, Cami Sardinha <cami at hack.co.za> a écrit :

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Nico <nicolas at lienard.name> wrote: Hello

The screenshot looks good.

I'm installing it :))

be carefull, there is some hard path in parse-config.pl

Path to MAPE config

my %config = do "/usr/local/xymon/server/www/MAPE/etc/config.pl";

Will add that to the install instructions, thanks .. I missed that ;)

after fixing it, i run the parse-config.pl file but nothing happens and the URL /xymon/MAPE is black.

After checking the file parse-config.pl it appears it opens hosts.cfg.

But my config is using include parameters, so my real config (hosts definitions) are not here but in another file (hosts.d/customer/ALL).

It could be great to integrate this kind of setup.

I'll make it configurable as well (very easily done).

Anyway, after setting directly the hosts.d/customer/ALL, now it generates the file data.php

[root at cmsbs-mn01-new:/opt/xymon/server/www/MAPE/data ] 84 du -sh data.php 4.8M data.php

Please could you mail me that data.php (off list) so we can figure out whats causing it.

Cami

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Cami Sardinha wrote:

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Cami Sardinha <cami at hack.co.za> wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> wrote: 

  That is one of the issues currently. We have thousands of hosts currently and things can spiral quite quickly.
 
  That said, I find the mind map view that you've chosen to be interesting.  It could also be a heat map view like http://finviz.com/map.ashx (I kinda prefer this due to
  it's simplicity).

We have our "heatmap" version coming in Stage 2 (Zoomable Pack Extension on the Roadmap). While we have it working in production, it does need to be polished up a bit. The managers seem to love it since you can quickly spot issues and drill down directly to the root cause.

We're planning for a release tomorrow as everything looks on track. Just to give you an idea of the type of heatmap we're going for, I've uploaded some screenshots of it in production. The colors can be changed, its quite harsh on the eyes at the moment but you get a fairly good idea of where its headed: http://mape.hack.co.za/?page_id=38

Feel free to fire off any comments

Regards, Cami

Hi, it seems that the tree view appears to ignore directoy directive in the hosts.cfg file and displays not the hostnames only the directive like

Company - Server - include/mail

and not

Company - Server - mail - mailsrv1

cheers, martin