[Xymon] two xymon servers - who controls clients?

[henrik at hswn.dk]

Den 26.09.2013 15:08, Bakkies Gatvol skrev: 

> I am setting up a
production xymon monitoring server. I have a development one already
running and was having the clients report to both. I had not thought
this setup would be problematic, (being use to old style Big brother)
but as I am working on a LOG monitoring setup - it dawned on me that
both prod & dev xymon server installs have a client-local.cfg.
> 
> Is
there any kind of priority in the list of servers implied from the
client point of view? 
> 
> on any given client I have
> 
>
/etc/default/xymon-client
> 
> XYMONSERVERS="10.65.1.171 10.65.20.51"
>

> If by some dumbness of me I end up with different client-local.cfg
files on prod and dev - which one will end up on the client?

When you
have two recipients in a client configuration, then the server response
is returned by the first server in the list. So in your case, the client
would get the client-local.cfg entry found on 10.65.1.171. 

Regards,


Henrik 

 
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