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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Xymon on behalf of Hewitt, Lenny<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 February 2014 5:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'xymon@xymon.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Cannot get custom script column back.</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m having problems with how xymon is reporting a status and wanted to give you a step-by-step detailed description of what I did to get in the state that it is in so that it will hopefully describe what to do to fix this anomally.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I set up a custom script to monitor the status of process, more than just monitoring to see if the daemon is up or down, etc, etc. In testing the script I used the example of the client-side script on my client. I created the script on
the clients and everything showed up on the xymon webpage and worked perfectly. I then realized that I wanted to rename the script on the client to something better describing it. So I proceeded to rename the script and update the clientlaunch.cfg in etc
on each client to reflect the new name. After a short period the column on the xymon website showing the status of the original name of the script went purple because that script name was not reporting anymore. I removed this purple column by running xymon
127.0.0.1 “drop <HOSTNAME> <columname>”. The problem is I can’t get the column to show back up again with the status from the newly named script that is currently configured. The names of the columns were the same, just the script name changed. I suspect
that is why it is behaving this way but don’t know what to do to fix this state that it’s in.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lenny</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The name of the script wouldn't affect the test status if the renamed script is still running, it should not have gone purple. Did you
change the name of the script in clientlaunch.cfg? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What if you run the script manually as the xymon user, does that appear at the server?</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Are
you sure the script is actually running and the client is sending the results to the server - try running tcpdump to capture that traffic. Do you see any anominalies under the xymond page of the xymon server? Are other tests from that xymon client working?</span></p>
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cheers, Phil</div>
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