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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jeremy,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tim was very good with the explanation. I went and removed the previous configuration. I then configured it as a client: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>./configure.client<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>./configure --client was what I originally tried, but for some reason that did not find the pcre libraries. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m good now… I have one machine configured as the server, with the client information. My second machine is configured only with the client.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for all your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#17365D'>David Diep</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#595959'> </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Diep, David (OCTO-Contractor)<br><b>Cc:</b> Tim McCloskey; xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Client install gone wrong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 18 December 2013 10:47, Diep, David (OCTO-Contractor) <<a href="mailto:David.Diep@dc.gov" target="_blank">David.Diep@dc.gov</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p style='margin-left:.5in'>“configure” is this local? Or do you have to specify “./configure --server” or “./configure --client” or “./configure”<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>You can do any of these. When you run "./configure" it simply runs "./configure.server" for you. If you run "./configure --server" it does the same thing also.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you run "./configure --client" then the configure script simply runs "./configure.client".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So there are several different ways to do the same two things. Running "./configure --client" is the official way.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You can also do the following, which ensures that it builds a client using server-side configuration, without being prompted about it:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>$ CONFTYPE=server ./configure --client<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>“configure.server” allows for client configurations as well as server configuration all on one machine<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yes. <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>“configure.client” this does not work very well<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal>This works fine, as long as you use "server configuration" (central configuration). If you use "client configuration" (local configuration) then you run into the compile problem.<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p>I did “./configure --server” on two machines. I see now that I only needed it on one machine and one machine only. All I need to do is update hosts.cfg, alerts.cfg, etc…<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal>Yes.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The server build also has a client build included (a Xymon server should also be a Xymon client, so that it can watch itself). So another option is to manually copy the "xymon/client" directory from your server to any host you want to monitor, then just create the xymon user/group, make sure the "tmp" and "log" directories are writeable by this user, and create an init script to run the "runclient.sh" script.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Alternatively, after building (but not installing) the server code (./configure --server), you can do a client-only install:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>$ make install-client<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This will copy only the client parts of the install. You still need to create the xymon user/group and setup the init script for runclient.sh.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I agree that the main install doco is not as clear as it could be, and focuses almost exclusively on the server setup. However, there's a README.CLIENT file in the source that is a much better guide for installing just the client "agent".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>J<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; COLOR: red"><SPAN
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