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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The client only updates on slowscans – usually every 6 hours – one of first lines in the logs will tell which scan number you are on and which will be the next slow scan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You can force a slow scan by stop/starting the service.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">If you have waited more than 6 hours, then you have some other issue – can you check the log on a slow scan? Usually easiest to do this by stopping the service and then running the
client manually in a Powershell prompt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">Zak <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"> Kris Springer <kspringer@innovateteam.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:39<br>
<b>To:</b> Beck, Zak <zak.beck@accenture.com>; Xymon MailingList <xymon@xymon.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [Xymon] Windows XymonPSClient v2.37<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm trying to remotely update a v2.28 client to the latest 2.37 version by following the instructions in the XymonPSClient.doc, but the client isn't updating. Here's what I've done. Maybe I'm missing something.<br>
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1. Download the latest xymonclient.ps1 from github and place it in my server's scripts directory. (This is the directory where I run other client scripts successfully)<br>
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2. Rename the xymonclient.ps1 file to xymonclient_2.37.ps1 (per the doc instructions)<br>
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3. Get the md5sum of the file<br>
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4. Add the following line to the client-local.cfg file on the server for the specific host I'm trying to update. (per the doc instructions)<br>
clientversion:2.37:<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__my.domain.com_xymon_scripts-3AMD5-3Amd5sumadlkfskdkfkfdl&d=DwMD-g&c=eIGjsITfXP_y-DLLX0uEHXJvU8nOHrUK8IrwNKOtkVU&r=S-aLwpx-PHBTBMIG_c2JczRC0SfuZCmsiH9Iams25FI&m=nCeHIt-8vEpIrED5Cu3dEPfxpWypoQE_ddD6QQAX9Ws&s=05m99yiMkc-55R1AKXecttl5doV-7QYCPGCbqVr5S_s&e=">https://my.domain.com/xymon/scripts:MD5:md5sumadlkfskdkfkfdl</a><br>
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5. Check that the xymonclient_config.xml on the client has <br>
<clientremotecfgexec>1</clientremotecfgexec><br>
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When I look at the logs on the client it says it sees the instruction from the server, but it doesn't perform any action. The client version never changes.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 2/15/19 5:03 AM, Beck, Zak wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I have committed v2.37 today, this has a big performance related fix and other fixes – thanks to SebA <<a href="mailto:spah@syntec.co.uk">spah@syntec.co.uk</a>> and Andy
<a href="mailto:abs@shadymint.com">abs@shadymint.com</a> for extra work and prompting in this area.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sourceforge.net_p_xymon_code_HEAD_tree_sandbox_WinPSClient_&d=DwMD-g&c=eIGjsITfXP_y-DLLX0uEHXJvU8nOHrUK8IrwNKOtkVU&r=S-aLwpx-PHBTBMIG_c2JczRC0SfuZCmsiH9Iams25FI&m=nCeHIt-8vEpIrED5Cu3dEPfxpWypoQE_ddD6QQAX9Ws&s=L-dhmcu_CM75-ARQ7kmDxV7wP_abxGZqOuUDmZXC-RE&e=">Download
from SVN</a> (the documentation has been updated also, including uninstall instructions).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The key fixes are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* replaced WMI call to get number of processors with Windows API call<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The WMI call to get processor information was taking anything from 4-5 seconds on most of my VMs, some experience much longer waits and high CPU usage while this WMI call executed.
There have also been instances where the WMI call returns incorrect data or no data. This has been replaced with a call to GetNativeSystemInfo(), which should work on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms and in testing executes in milliseconds.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* only supply diskpart data if EnableDiskPart = 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">There is a test in the client which uses ‘diskpart’ to gather information about clustering every slow scan. This is included in the data sent to Xymon, but it’s not generally displayed
– you can extract it for reporting if needed. Hardly anyone uses this and for some reason for some people it is causing memory issues in the Microsoft Virtual Disk Service. Therefore by default the test will now not be run, you can enable it with the EnableDiskPart
setting in xymonclient_config.xml.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* add a dummy, ignored config item in the internal client-local config table so that there is always some configuration present (even if nothing in the server-side client-local
for this host)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We found that if there is no client-local.cfg for the host and no default client-local.cfg (like [powershell] or [XymonPS]), on some platforms there appears to be a memory leak.
The fix ensures there is always something in the internal cache of client-config even if nothing is received from the server.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* XymonAcceptUTF8 - default (0) is now to use the original ASCII encoding, added setting for 'pure' ASCII coding which strips/converts diacritic characters<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Prior to this version, by default, the client uses ASCII encoding to send to the server but also attempts to encode/filter diacritic characters. This was added in v2.20, and for
some people it adds a large time overhead when sending data.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">It’s been changed so that the default setting of 0 acts like it did before v2.20 – no diacritic encoding – I’m calling this ‘original’ ASCII encoding. XymonAcceptUTF8 = 1 is unchanged,
uses UTF8. XymonAcceptUTF8 = 2 is the v2.20 setting, use ASCII and encode/filter diacritics – I’m calling this ‘pure’ ASCII encoding. I don’t think this will impact on many people other than saving time/cpu for the default setting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Full changelog:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">v2.37<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* replaced WMI call to get number of processors with Windows API call<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* fixed servicecheck parentheses<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* use TLS for uploading data to xymoncgi if using http reporting and URL begins https<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* add milliseconds to log timestamp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* add a dummy, ignored config item in the internal client-local config table so that there is always some configuration present (even if nothing in the server-side client-local
for this host)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* fix a couple of instances where we were using variables before they are assigned<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">settings changes/additions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* XymonAcceptUTF8 - default (0) is now to use the original ASCII encoding, added setting for 'pure' ASCII coding which strips/converts diacritic characters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">* only supply diskpart data if EnableDiskPart = 1<o:p></o:p></p>
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