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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been doing research into the communications protocol used by Xymon and her clients. I am using the Windows PowerShell client found here: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/">http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve read a man page for bb: <a href="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/hobbit.1.html">http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/hobbit.1.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>QUOTE: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>" config FILENAME<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Retrieve one of the Hobbit configuration files from the server.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> This command allows a client to pull files from the $BBHOME/etc/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> directory on the server, allowing for semi-automatic updates of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> the client configuration. Since the configuration files are<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> designed to have a common file for the configuration of all<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> hosts in the system - and this is in fact the recommended way of<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> configuring your clients - this makes it easier to keep the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> configuration files synchronized.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Using this information, I was able to execute this command…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>PS> XymonSend “config client-local.cfg” “<xymon_server_name>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>… on a Windows server, inside a PowerShell window, and the entire, unedited ‘client-local.cfg’ file was displayed on screen. This is good.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then I read the following in the Client-Local.cfg man page: <a href="http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/client-local.cfg.5.html">http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/client-local.cfg.5.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>QUOTE:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“The client-local.cfg file resides on the Xymon server. When clients connect to the Xymon server to send in their client data, they will receive part of this file back from the Xymon server. The configuration received by the client is then used the next time the client runs.“<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It sounds like the Xymon server will accept a status message from the client, then parse the message for OS type, host name, etc… then parse the client-local.cfg file and find the lines that are applicable to the client (based upon OS type, host name, etc.) and return those to the client. None of my clients are receiving a response from the Xymon server containing configuration data. I’ve tried to construct some messages to simulate an upload from a linux host, a win32 host, and a hp-ux hosts (all of which have entries in client-local.cfg), but I never get a reply containing configuration data from the Xymon server. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can someone tell me what should be happening and how to simulate it?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you very much for your time and assistance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>~Greg<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>