RubyXymon

A simple gem for Xymon

Thanks to Greg Faust, Scott Sayles

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ruby_xymon'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ruby_xymon

In its current state, the gem is simple to use. You can set two configuration variables, host and port, like this:

RubyXymon.config[:host] = 'localhost'
RubyXymon.config[:port] = '1984'

The values in the example are the defaults. You can also set the configuration at once, using either a Hash or a String, which points to a file:

RubyXymon.config = { :host => 'localhost' }
RubyXymon.config = "/some/dir/xymon.yml"

You can send a raw Xymon message using the send_formatted_message method:

RubyXymon.send_formatted_message("status www.http green #{Time.zone.now} Web OK")

Now you can send a simple status message above, using params:

RubyXymon.create_formatted_status_message('www', 'http', 'green', additional_text: 'Web OK')

For more information on Xymon, see the Xymon man page

The API of sending (and in the near future, reading) messages from Xymon is not defined yet, but it will definitely change.

Future improvements:

methods based on other Xymon messages. Each message would have its own syntax, e.g. RubyXymon.enable(hostname, testname)
methods to read from Xymon, e.g. "query" message
update config method to allow multiple configs / multiple servers
timeouts
swallow errors vs raise error methods (send_formatted_message! vs send_formatted_message)