<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Tim,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">for future readers: There is an error in the man page `xymond(8)`: `--merge-clientconfig` in `xymond(8)` is **wrong**. The option `--merge-clientlocal` documented in `client-local.cfg(5)` is correct.</div><div class="">You added this in `tasks.cfg` to the launch of `xymond`, right?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have this running successfully in a Linux-environment with host-specific (`[host=%www.*]`) and class (`[linux]`)-sections and the sections merge fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class="">Thomas</div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Oct 2018, at 17:40, Timothy Williams <<a href="mailto:tlwilliams4@vcu.edu" class="">tlwilliams4@vcu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">We have set up a new 4.3.28 xymon server, and will be migrating hosts to it in the next few weeks. On it I would like to start to use the --merge-clientlocal command. In testing, Windows powershell clients pick up either the individual host section OR the powershell section, it does not merge. Are there subtleties not in the man-pages that people have found to get it to work? (note that the xymond man-page states to use --merge-clientconfig, but that doesn't work either)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Could it be the section/host headings, or order? I have:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">[server1]</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">file:somefile</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">[server2]</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">file:different file</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">[os=powershell] (also tried [class=powershell] and [powershell] alone)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">xymonlogsend</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">clientversion:2.28:<a href="http://url/" class="">http://url</a></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks,<br class=""></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="">Tim Williams</span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial" class=""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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