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<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></b><![endif]>Tried to install on Server 2012 R2 running powershell version 4, got this error:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 install<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At C:\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:28 char:24<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+ $XymonClientVersion = "$Id: xymonclient.ps1 7348 2014-01-15 05:13:48Z dbaldwin $ ...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">+ ~~~~<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Variable reference is not valid. ':' was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">delimit the name.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParseException<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidVariableReferenceWithDrive<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I edited xymonclient.ps1 and just removed the “:” character and that seems to make it work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></b><![endif]>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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># $clientname = "winxptest" # Define this to override the default client hostname<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is an example of my config<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 config<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">XymonPSClient config:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">servers : kgxymon01<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">clientconfigfile : C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">clientlogfile : C:\xymon\xymonclient.log<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">clientname : test05<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">clientfqdn : 0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">loginterval : 60<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">name : test05<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">loopinterval : 60<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">reportevt : 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Settable Params and values:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> clientbbwinmembug=1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> clientconfigfile=C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> clientfqdn=0<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> clientlogfile=C:\xymon\xymonclient.log<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> clientlower=1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> clientname=test05<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> clientremotecfgexec=0<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> loginterval=60<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> loopinterval=60<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> maxlogage=60<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> name=test05<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> reportevt=1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> servers=kgxymon01<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> slowscanrate=72<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> wanteddisks=3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> wantedlogs=Application System Security<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and here is part of the contents of c:\xymon\xymonclient.log the fqdn is still added.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">clientname<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>test05.mydomain.local<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[XymonPSClientInfo]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Id : 2212<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Handles : 442<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">CPU : 24.640625<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Name : powershell<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></b><![endif]>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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">eventlog:application:10240<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ignore This is a test<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><b><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></b><![endif]>In xymonclient.ps1 for function XymonMsgs it has the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Get-EventLog -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue -LogName $log.Log -asBaseObject -After $since | where {$_.EntryType -match "<b>Error|Warning</b>"}<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span 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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