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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I did try it but can’t find any examples so am not sure how to make it work. The attempts I made stopped the script working but no errors were genrated<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Thomas Eckert <tom@it-eckert.de> <br><b>Sent:</b> 18 April 2019 12:01<br><b>To:</b> Neil Simmonds <neilsimmonds1808@gmail.com><br><b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] xymond_channel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is a `--filter=REGEX` for xymond_channel.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Never used it myself but I'm curious if it works ...<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Apr 18, 2019 12:55, Neil Simmonds <<a href="mailto:neilsimmonds1808@gmail.com">neilsimmonds1808@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I’m running 6 scripts from tasks.cfg as the following,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>CMD xymond_channel --channel=client --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/script.log $XYMONHOME/ext/script.sh</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The reason for doing this is that we have some custom monitors written on a mainframe but they just send data as part of the general Xymon data and Xymon doesn’t understand the data so ignores it. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>These scripts process that data and do the alerting sending the data to a specific host.test on Xymon. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>These scripts have been observed to use quite a bit of CPU and I assume that is due to them reading all client data. Is there a way to narrow it down so it will only read data coming from a specific host?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Neil Simmonds</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>