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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From the documentation around the xymonclient.cfg config file it is supposed to set up the environment for client-side scripts so that they can get hold of environment variables such as XYMON and XYMSRV (BB & BBDISP in Hobbit days)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve just moved from Hobbit to Xymon and I am getting errors on the results of my scripts because the environment variables I used in Hobbit are not defined in Xymon. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think the reason is as follows: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In xymonclient.cfg under Compatibility Settings, BB is defined here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> BB="$XYMON"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Earlier on in the file XYMON is defined here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> XYMON="$XYMONHOME/bin/xymon" # The Xymon client "xymon" utility<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And looking further back XYMONHOME is defined here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> XYMONHOME="$XYMONCLIENTHOME" # Directory for the Xymon client files<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But XYMONCLIENTHOME is not defined anywhere I can find in xymonclient.cfg, which means ultimately BB is not defined. Therefore I get the following from my Perl scripts:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"BB"} in concatenation (.) or string at ./CurlFile.pl line 144.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./CurlFile.pl line 144.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> sh: 8: status Internet.Perf green Sat Sep 7 14:15:16 BST 2013 - OK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This string breaks the logic of the BB messaging and results in a RED alert on my monitoring.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know that XYMONCLIENTHOME is defined in xymonserver.cfg as<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> XYMONCLIENTHOME="/home/xymon/client"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Am I right that I should define XYMONCLIENTHOME somewhere in xymonclient.cfg and that it should be the same as XYMONCLIENTHOME="/home/xymon/client" or is some other logic broken between xymonserver.cfg and xymonclient.cfg?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>