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<p class="MsoPlainText">Might be a better way but this is how I do it (my external scripts are written in PowerShell however)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">1. I put <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/xymonsend.ps1">
http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/xymonsend.ps1</a> onto each server inside the same directory as the PowerShell client<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">2. I dot source this into my external scripts (which I normally store in c:\xymon\ext to keep it simple) and use it to send the status messages to xymon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">3. Run these as scheduled tasks in windows.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From the readme:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"Talking to the Xymon Server<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">===========================<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The "xymonsend.ps1" script contains a PowerShell function "XymonSend"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">that lets you communicate with the Xymon server in the same way that<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">the "bb" utility does on the Unix platforms. To use it, you must
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"source" this into your PowerShell commandline window: At the "PS"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">prompt, enter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> PS C:\xymon> . .\xymonsend.ps1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">.."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Here's an example of how I use it - pointless script to test if c:\windows exists and send the result to xymon (but you get the idea). It will display as the column “customtest” for the host “testserver01”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">$date=get-date -format "ddd MMM dd HH':'mm':'ss zzz yyyy"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">$DELAY="+10m"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">$xymonserver="xymon01"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">$machine="testserver01"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">$column="Customtest"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">#test logic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">if(Test-Path c:\windows){<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> $colour="green"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> $msg="&green ALL OK!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> } else {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> $colour="red"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> $msg="&red world is ending"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">#send to xymon server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">. c:\xymon\xymonsend.ps1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">xymonsend "status$delay $machine.$column $colour $date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">$msg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">" "$xymonserver"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Then schedule that in windows to run however often you want, you need to set the delay to a value longer than then the interval between each run of your schedule task to avoid it going purple.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Brandon <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] On Behalf Of Stef Coene<br>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:47 PM<br>
To: xymon@xymon.com<br>
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon PS Client</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">We are using the Powershell client on new servers. But we are missing the option to execute external scripts. Has anyone an updated version or written a patch so you can execute external scripts with the Powershell cient?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">And if not, how do you execute external scripts when using the Powershell client?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Stef<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Xymon mailing list<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Xymon@xymon.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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