Hi,
I have created an alternate xymon binary. It's a shell script that accepts the same options but uses curl to upload the data to a https server with xymoncgimsg.cgi.
This way you can block port 1984 and have control who send data with a username/ password. And the data is encrypted. We had some external auditors who tried to send bogus messages to corrupt our monitor solution :(
This will prevent this because you need a username and password if you want to send something. And the data is encrypted.
Anyone interested in the script?
Stef
Why not post it on xymonton.org?
=G=
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 6:13 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
Hi,
I have created an alternate xymon binary. It's a shell script that accepts the same options but uses curl to upload the data to a https server with xymoncgimsg.cgi.
This way you can block port 1984 and have control who send data with a username/ password. And the data is encrypted. We had some external auditors who tried to send bogus messages to corrupt our monitor solution :(
This will prevent this because you need a username and password if you want to send something. And the data is encrypted.
Anyone interested in the script?
Stef
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
On 3/05/19 15:21, Galen Johnson wrote:
Why not post it on xymonton.org <http://xymonton.org>? Why? Because it's not clear to me that is THE website to find xymon related information:
- Latest news was posted on 2013-12-04.
- Latest addon was posted a year ago, the one before was posted 4 years ago.
- Tutorials and other pages use the bb / hobbit syntax. The rename from hobbit to xymon was in 2018.
Stef
I did the same a few years ago. DoD was beginning to insist all network traffic be encrypted, and I was just trying to get Xymon approved for monitoring. Rather than get into a recurring fight to justify plain text on port 1984, I set up xymoncgimsg.cgi and wrote the delivery script to talk to it. I don't have all possible options covered, but I'm the only one writing stuff for it...
I think it is responsible for a ton of junk showing up, though. That mainly manifests as graphs with weird names, or graphs that clearly don't belong to the server they show up under. I suspect that the webserver doesn't always terminate the thread when the incoming connection drops, so xymoncgimsg.cgi gets some or all of the report from the next server to connect. As well as oddly named disk and inode graphs, I also get graphs with nanoseconds-since-time-began kind of numbers.
I'm looking forward to getting a xymon release with builtin encryption.
Ralph Mitchell
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
On 3/05/19 15:21, Galen Johnson wrote:
Why not post it on xymonton.org <http://xymonton.org>? Why? Because it's not clear to me that is THE website to find xymon related information:
- Latest news was posted on 2013-12-04.
- Latest addon was posted a year ago, the one before was posted 4 years ago.
- Tutorials and other pages use the bb / hobbit syntax. The rename from hobbit to xymon was in 2018.
Stef
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
People are still pointed to it in the list. It's still being "maintained" (by me). If people aren't finding it useful, I can take it down, I'd hate to see it disappear like deadcat, though. I've often considered pulling all the known Xymon content onto it (there are several sites) just to have one place for all the 3rd party bits to live. I'll admit it could use some love but it is still being used, While I no longer use Xymon (new job can't use it), it does still hold a special place in my heart (been using Big Bro/Hobbit/Xymon since 1998 when it was "better than free").
=G=
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
On 3/05/19 15:21, Galen Johnson wrote:
Why not post it on xymonton.org <http://xymonton.org>? Why? Because it's not clear to me that is THE website to find xymon related information:
- Latest news was posted on 2013-12-04.
- Latest addon was posted a year ago, the one before was posted 4 years ago.
- Tutorials and other pages use the bb / hobbit syntax. The rename from hobbit to xymon was in 2018.
Stef
On 4/05/19 04:26, Galen Johnson wrote:
People are still pointed to it in the list. It's still being "maintained" (by me). If people aren't finding it useful, I can take it down, I'd hate to see it disappear like deadcat, though. I've often considered pulling all the known Xymon content onto it (there are several sites) just to have one place for all the 3rd party bits to live. I'll admit it could use some love but it is still being used,
While I no longer use Xymon (new job can't use it), it does still hold a special place in my heart (been using Big Bro/Hobbit/Xymon since 1998 when it was "better than free").
It's not that I wanted you to take the site down, it's just that's not obviously to me that your site was the place to host community driven xymon content.
I have the same 'problem' with devmon. There are different sources where you can find devmon. I forked my own version because I integrated SNMP v3 and couldn't find the most up-to-date base to start from.
Maybe we should reinvent xymon and merge all available information (xymon, Devmon, scripts, ...) in 1 place? Make the xymon website more 'flashy'? Make a wiki like section where users we can post scripts and other information? Make a forum were people can ask questions and/or posts scripts?
Stef
Actually, that is what I had hoped Xymonton would become. The one place people knew to go for all things Xymon which is why I used a wiki based solution (deadcat was script-centric). Alas, it seems it has become just another Xymon site.
On a side note, I was hoping Xymon 5 would have been released by now. IIRC, SNMP was going to be integrated into it and deprecate the need for devmon. It was also going to have a more themeable UI (again IIRC). I had actually started working towards that but transitioned to a new job so haven't had time to get back on it.
=G=
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 4:51 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
On 4/05/19 04:26, Galen Johnson wrote:
People are still pointed to it in the list. It's still being "maintained" (by me). If people aren't finding it useful, I can take it down, I'd hate to see it disappear like deadcat, though. I've often considered pulling all the known Xymon content onto it (there are several sites) just to have one place for all the 3rd party bits to live. I'll admit it could use some love but it is still being used, While I no longer use Xymon (new job can't use it), it does still hold a special place in my heart (been using Big Bro/Hobbit/Xymon since 1998 when it was "better than free").
It's not that I wanted you to take the site down, it's just that's not obviously to me that your site was the place to host community driven xymon content.
I have the same 'problem' with devmon. There are different sources where you can find devmon. I forked my own version because I integrated SNMP v3 and couldn't find the most up-to-date base to start from.
Maybe we should reinvent xymon and merge all available information (xymon, Devmon, scripts, ...) in 1 place? Make the xymon website more 'flashy'? Make a wiki like section where users we can post scripts and other information? Make a forum were people can ask questions and/or posts scripts?
Stef
Hello all,
I'm a modest contributor on Xymon plugins. I'm still using Xymonton to post my home cooked plugins, but this is not really usefull to do the versionning, this is why I'm storing everything on github, and only posting links to git repos. As I'm running my own debian box, I can host the Xymonton website or a mirror if required.
Le 04/05/2019 à 04:26, Galen Johnson a écrit :
People are still pointed to it in the list. It's still being "maintained" (by me). If people aren't finding it useful, I can take it down, I'd hate to see it disappear like deadcat, though. I've often considered pulling all the known Xymon content onto it (there are several sites) just to have one place for all the 3rd party bits to live. I'll admit it could use some love but it is still being used, While I no longer use Xymon (new job can't use it), it does still hold a special place in my heart (been using Big Bro/Hobbit/Xymon since 1998 when it was "better than free").
=G=
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org <mailto:stef.coene at docum.org>> wrote:
On 3/05/19 15:21, Galen Johnson wrote: > Why not post it on xymonton.org <http://xymonton.org> <http://xymonton.org>? Why? Because it's not clear to me that is THE website to find xymon related information: - Latest news was posted on 2013-12-04. - Latest addon was posted a year ago, the one before was posted 4 years ago. - Tutorials and other pages use the bb / hobbit syntax. The rename from hobbit to xymon was in 2018. Stef
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
-- Cordialement, Damien Martins
In many ways, pointing to a real repos over the way it's currently set up is actually preferred since that allows for easier maintenance and upkeep of the code. I don't think git was even an idea when xymonton (and before that hobbiton) came into being. Dokuwiki may not even be the best option any longer versus setting up a github organization...which I might think about doing for the long term. The wiki bits of github are just more limited in was it provides.
=G=
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:55 AM Damien Martins <damien at makelofine.org> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm a modest contributor on Xymon plugins. I'm still using Xymonton to post my home cooked plugins, but this is not really usefull to do the versionning, this is why I'm storing everything on github, and only posting links to git repos. As I'm running my own debian box, I can host the Xymonton website or a mirror if required.
Le 04/05/2019 à 04:26, Galen Johnson a écrit :
People are still pointed to it in the list. It's still being "maintained" (by me). If people aren't finding it useful, I can take it down, I'd hate to see it disappear like deadcat, though. I've often considered pulling all the known Xymon content onto it (there are several sites) just to have one place for all the 3rd party bits to live. I'll admit it could use some love but it is still being used, While I no longer use Xymon (new job can't use it), it does still hold a special place in my heart (been using Big Bro/Hobbit/Xymon since 1998 when it was "better than free").
=G=
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
On 3/05/19 15:21, Galen Johnson wrote:
Why not post it on xymonton.org <http://xymonton.org>? Why? Because it's not clear to me that is THE website to find xymon related information:
- Latest news was posted on 2013-12-04.
- Latest addon was posted a year ago, the one before was posted 4 years ago.
- Tutorials and other pages use the bb / hobbit syntax. The rename from hobbit to xymon was in 2018.
Stef
Xymon mailing listXymon at xymon.comhttp://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
-- Cordialement, Damien Martins
So... Stef, it would be nice, I think, if you put the curl client on GitHub and linked to it from Xymonton add-ons.
Kind regards,
SebA
On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 02:07, Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com> wrote:
In many ways, pointing to a real repos over the way it's currently set up is actually preferred since that allows for easier maintenance and upkeep of the code. I don't think git was even an idea when xymonton (and before that hobbiton) came into being. Dokuwiki may not even be the best option any longer versus setting up a github organization...which I might think about doing for the long term. The wiki bits of github are just more limited in was it provides.
=G=
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:55 AM Damien Martins <damien at makelofine.org> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm a modest contributor on Xymon plugins. I'm still using Xymonton to post my home cooked plugins, but this is not really usefull to do the versionning, this is why I'm storing everything on github, and only posting links to git repos. As I'm running my own debian box, I can host the Xymonton website or a mirror if required.
Le 04/05/2019 à 04:26, Galen Johnson a écrit :
People are still pointed to it in the list. It's still being "maintained" (by me). If people aren't finding it useful, I can take it down, I'd hate to see it disappear like deadcat, though. I've often considered pulling all the known Xymon content onto it (there are several sites) just to have one place for all the 3rd party bits to live. I'll admit it could use some love but it is still being used, While I no longer use Xymon (new job can't use it), it does still hold a special place in my heart (been using Big Bro/Hobbit/Xymon since 1998 when it was "better than free").
=G=
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
On 3/05/19 15:21, Galen Johnson wrote:
Why not post it on xymonton.org <http://xymonton.org>? Why? Because it's not clear to me that is THE website to find xymon related information:
- Latest news was posted on 2013-12-04.
- Latest addon was posted a year ago, the one before was posted 4 years ago.
- Tutorials and other pages use the bb / hobbit syntax. The rename from hobbit to xymon was in 2018.
Stef
Xymon mailing listXymon at xymon.comhttp://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
-- Cordialement, Damien Martins
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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