The syntax of the bb-protocol was described in bb-doc, so tested with the following perl subroutine and it worked.

• Øyvind

sub sendToXymon { use IO::Socket; my($server,$port,$host,$test,$color,$date,$subject,$string) = @_ ; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => $server, PeerPort => $port, Proto => 'tcp', ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; print $sock "status " . &xymonhost($host) . "." . $test . " " . $color . " " . $date . " " . $subject . "\n" . $string ; close($sock); }

sub xymonhost { my($host) = @_ ; $host =~ s/\./,/g ; return $host ; }

Fra: Deiss, Mark [Mark.Deiss at xerox.com] Sendt: 9. august 2012 15:54 Til: Bjørge Øyvind (Operations); xymon at xymon.com Emne: RE: Perl client without xymon client. (OPEN)

You could investigate using Big Sister as a client. It's been a few years since I used it. It ~was Perl based and ~was compatible with Big Brother/port 1984 transmission/BB messaging format at the time.

I think it is safe to mention it now; in the past, Mr. Croteau and Mr. MacGuire would throw thunderbolts from Mount BB.

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of oyvind.bjorge at telenor.com Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 9:17 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Perl client without xymon client. (OPEN)

Is there anyone that have made a perl module or subroutine for sending to a xymon-server without having to install the xymon client? On some node it is difficult to install a client. Some vendors are very afraid of having things installed on "their" equipment, and the os might be stripped down with no compilers and so on. For sending to xymon I guess all you need is a simple socket connections so I expect that this has been done many times already. Anyone who would like to share?

/ Øyvind

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