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red/yellow/green condition icon for each host/test, on top of a colored background indicating the current worst status across all hosts and tests. The user can click on a colored icon to view more specific details and (where available) relevant graphs of metric statistics. Built-in reporting tools include
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Networked hosts and devices are monitored by a Xymon server using network probes supporting a large and extensible range of protocols, including SMTP, HTTP/S and DNS. Hosts that use a supported operating system can also run a Xymon client (also free software), to additionally collect operating system
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Xymon offers graphical monitoring, showing the status of various network services of each device, as well as a range of application and operating system metrics such as listing the number of mail messages queued after a defined level of downtime. The web-based graphical display uses a
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and application monitoring metrics and report them to the Xymon server. Clients are available for Unix and Linux (in formats including source
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extend monitoring to new types of applications and services, and many extension scripts for Big Brother will run unchanged on Xymon.
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The application was inspired by the open-source version of
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with it. Between 2002 and 2004 Henrik Storner wrote an
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