Xymon

Xymon client written in NodeJS.

A drop in replacement for the original Xymon client (cli) with some added features.

Getting Started

Clone repo

NPM

npm i -g .
xymon ping
xymon --help

cp .env.example .env and change .env if your Xymon daemon is running somewhere other than localhost:1984.

Docker

docker build -t xymon .
docker run --rm xymon host.docker.internal ping

Replace host.docker.internal with the address of your Xymon server/daemon (Xymond).

Additional Features

• Installable anywhere Node.js or Docker resides
• Support for ENV variables (XYMONDHOST, XYMONDPORT)
• JSON output support

Known discrepancies

• --proxy arg does nothing (only there for backward compatibility)
• URL not supported
• 0.0.0.0 RECIPIENT not supported

Notes

Dropping and Renaming

In order for drop and rename commands to work the server needs to be configured to allow the sending IP.

See the --admin-senders= configuration within the Xymond documentaton for additional information.

References

• https://www.xymon.com/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html

Original Xymon client help message

Usage: xymon [--debug] [--merge] [--proxy=http://ip.of.the.proxy:port/] [RECIPIENT] "DATA"
  RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL (default: localhost)
  DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin