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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I’ve seen most of those, and reported them to the maintainer, but I hadn’t seen the “Critical” one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">#1 is because of that string introduced by a version control system. I just edit it do get rid of, or quote, the “$”s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Setting up the host name doesn’t work. I think I figured out why, and I posted it in this list a few weeks ago. I’d need to search for the email – I believe the wrong default
variable is used. I work around the host name issues using an alias on the server, in hosts.cfg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">There was an issue with large disks reporting free space incorrectly because of using signed 32-bit ints. I think that’s been fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Even though it’s not perfect yet, I still use this one instead of BBWin, because BBWin is also buggy and not really maintained. At least the Powershell version I can fix myself.
:-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brandon Dale<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 25, 2014 01:44<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Xymon Powershell Client Problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I have been testing the XymonPSClient for windows found a few problems I was hoping someone could help with, I set this up on a few machines running 2008r2 and 2012r2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Tried to install on Server 2012 R2 running powershell version 4, got this error:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 install<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">At C:\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:28 char:24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">+ $XymonClientVersion = "$Id: xymonclient.ps1 7348 2014-01-15 05:13:48Z dbaldwin $ ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">+ ~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Variable reference is not valid. ':' was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">delimit the name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParseException<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidVariableReferenceWithDrive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I edited xymonclient.ps1 and just removed the “:” character and that seems to make it work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">setting <b>clientfqdn 0</b> doesn’t stop it appending the fqdn, to get this to work I have to manually set the hostname without the fqdn on this line and uncomment the line:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"># $clientname = "winxptest" # Define this to override the default client hostname<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Here is an example of my config<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 config<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">XymonPSClient config:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">servers : kgxymon01<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">clientconfigfile : C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">clientlogfile : C:\xymon\xymonclient.log<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">clientname : test05<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">clientfqdn : 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">loginterval : 60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">name : test05<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">loopinterval : 60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">reportevt : 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Settable Params and values:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> clientbbwinmembug=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> clientconfigfile=C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU"> clientfqdn=0<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> clientlogfile=C:\xymon\xymonclient.log<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> clientlower=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> clientname=test05<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> clientremotecfgexec=0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> loginterval=60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> loopinterval=60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> maxlogage=60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> name=test05<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> reportevt=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> servers=kgxymon01<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> slowscanrate=72<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> wanteddisks=3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> wantedlogs=Application System Security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">and here is part of the contents of c:\xymon\xymonclient.log the fqdn is still added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">clientname<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU">test05.mydomain.local<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">[XymonPSClientInfo]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Id : 2212<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Handles : 442<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">CPU : 24.640625<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Name : powershell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Can’t filter out events, the settings from client-local.cfg on the xymon server are successfully copied to c:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg with the filter rules I had setup for BBwin which work. For example<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">eventlog:application:10240<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">ignore This is a test<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I would expect this to ignore any event where the message is “This is a test” this works in BBwin, with the powershell client the event will still appear in the msgs column, as far as I can these filters don’t work at
all with the PowerShell client but I may be doing it wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">In xymonclient.ps1 for function XymonMsgs it has the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Get-EventLog -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue -LogName $log.Log -asBaseObject -After $since | where {$_.EntryType -match "<b>Error|Warning</b>"}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This is missing “Critical” level, after a quick google it seems like get-eventlog might not support retrieving critical level events, does this mean the powershell client will never report on critical events?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#000097">Brandon Dale<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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