[Xymon] Clients not loading custom client-local.cfg values

[Jeremy Laidman]

If "--os" works, then "--class" should work also.  Perhaps a typo?  Perhaps
check the value of CONFIGCLASS in the running xymonlaunch process (eg:
strings /proc/`pgrep xymonlaunch`/environ | grep CONFIGCLASS).

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Bradley, Joshua E. <jbradley at ems.com> wrote:

>  These are very helpful suggestions to use for troubleshooting. The
> “client data” page was showing something like
>     [collector:]
>     client server,name,ems,com.linux linux
>
> Which was clearly not respecting the “--class=suse-srvs” that was being
> applied to the startup script.
>
> I’ve tried starting the client now with:  “./runclient.sh --os=suse-srvs
> start” which does adjust the OS value reported accordingly, but as there
> isn’t a “xymonclient-suse-srvs.sh” script the msgs just pile up in the
> ./tmp/ and are never delivered to the server.
>
> Any other thoughts or suggestions are welcomed.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Josh Bradley
>
>
> *From: *Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
> *Date: *Wed, 2 May 2012 12:06:40 +1000
> *To: *Joshua Bradley <jbradley at ems.com>
> *Cc: *<xymon at xymon.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Xymon] Clients not loading custom client-local.cfg values
>
>
> What does your "client data" page show as your config class?  It's the
> last word of the first line in the [collector:] section.
>
> I note that you show "-class" set to "suse-srv" but your client-local.cfg
> entry set to "suse-srvs" instead.  Was that a typo in your email, or in
> your configuration?
>
> Also, the "--class" suffix has two dashes, and you listed only one.
>
> Also, after changes to client-local.cfg, you might need to kill the
> "xymond" process (it should restart automatically) to have the changes take
> effect.
>
> It should work for you.  The man page for client-local.cfg states that
> only the hostname and OS name are used when matching the relevant section,
> and doesn't mention the config class.  Despite this, I see posts indicating
> that people are using this.  Indeed Henrik has said that it's actually the
> class that's matched, and the class defaults to the OS type.  I think the
> doco needs updating in this regard.
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Bradley, Joshua E. <*jbradley at ems.com*>
> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> We have a variety of servers in our environment which we’re looking to
> monitor with Xymon. I’ve recently built a Xymon server 4.3.7 and compiled
> some clients on our SUSE 9 machines. When running the clients they only
> seem to match the entries in the client-local.cfg file on the server for
> [linux] and not the custom entries which I created [suse-srvs]. I’ve tried
> launching the client with with —class=suse-srv but to no avail. I feel like
> I’m missing something, can anyone give me some feedback?
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Josh Bradley
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