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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/26/2017 3:31 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:<br>
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<div>Forgot to mention, I am using centos 6.8 and I do see
the sections dir here ( and no local dir ).</div>
<div> /usr/share/xymon-client/sections</div>
<div>under that dir I do see few scripts</div>
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<div># ls</div>
<div>ipcs meminfo mounts README vmstats</div>
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<div>I have xymon-client-4.3.21-4.el6.x86_64 installed</div>
<div>I went ahead and added a script called lscpu</div>
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<div># cat /usr/share/xymon-client/sections/lscpu </div>
<div>#!/bin/dash</div>
<div># collecting cpu info</div>
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<div>exec /usr/bin/lscpu 2>/dev/null</div>
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<div>Do I need to restart the xymon client? So, if I
understand correctly, this script will survive a yum
update xymon-client?</div>
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<div>Thanks a lot for such a detail description!</div>
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Nope, it scans the directory each time executes, so it should be
visible in the next report. Just make sure the script is chmod +x<br>
If a 'local' directory is present it's searched, otherwise it's not.
The README there (or the README-local and README-sections in
/usr/share/doc/xymon-client-*/) has a fuller explanation. The actual
reading is done inside xymonclient.sh (not xymonclient-linux.sh), so
this applies equally to all OS's.<br>
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And yes, any file left in there should be untouched by RPM when an
update occurs.<br>
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Regards,<br>
-jc<br>
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