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Just discover one catch documented at here <A href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#What_need_to_be_done_.3F">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#What_need_to_be_done_.3F</A><BR>
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All the external scripts on hobbit client need to be reviewed and to make sure they can send messages to two hobbit server.<BR>
<BR><BR>T.J. Yang<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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From: tj_yang@hotmail.com<BR>To: hobbit@hswn.dk<BR>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:47:07 -0600<BR>Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I update xymon client's configuration file from xymon server ?<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV>>Why would you need to update that client?<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>See <A title="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Why_.3F
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Why_.3F">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Why_.3F</A></FONT><BR>>Whatever it is, there is no built in way for the Xymon server to modify config files of the clients, sorry!<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Xymon server does support "client binary update" ,see <A title="http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/clientupdate.1.html
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/clientupdate.1.html">http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/clientupdate.1.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am thinking of only upgrade hobbitclients.cfg file in a newer version of xymon client binary tar ball got created on xymon server.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a possible workaround solution but better than login into thousand of machines to do the change.</FONT></DIV>
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