<div dir="ltr">Neil<div><br></div><div>I can confirm that I can replicate this behaviour when sending a xymon "client" message using the command structure in the script, and it is returning the relevant section of client-local.cfg. This is the expected and documented behaviour of the "xymon client" command - see man(5) client-local.cfg for info about how this works with the client message.</div><div><br></div><div>Interestingly. your script is using the "testname is mqcollect" way to specify a collector ID. Newer versions of the mq.sh script doesn't rely on this special behaviour, and instead sets the collector ID by suffixing the "client message type with the collector ID, using this line:</div><div><br></div><div>echo "client/mqcollect $MACHINE.mqcollect mqcollect" >$TMPFILE<br></div><div><br></div><div>You seem to be using a script that's likely more than 10 years old. I recommend upgrading if you can.</div><div><br></div><div>And I suspect this is the crux of the problem, in that the script was written when xymond didn't give a response to a xymon client command. That was a long time ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Although I doubt the age of the mq.sh script is causing any issues for you, and certainly shouldn't be the cause of the inappropriate lines in the logfile. My copy of mq.sh, from Xymon 4.3.10, has the same problem.</div><div><br></div><div>A solution to this is for this script to use "-" instead of "@" in the xymon command, and in doing so, have the received output discarded (it's still received, but xymon doesn't present it on STDOUT), like so:</div><div><br></div><div>$XYMON $XYMSRV "-" < $TMPFILE<br></div><div><br></div><div>Another option would be to simply redirect STDOUT to /dev/null:</div><div><br></div><div>$XYMON $XYMSRV "@" < $TMPFILE >/dev/null</div><div><br></div><div>This will still log anything that is sent to STDERR. As we would not expect any output, unless there was a problem, dumping all standard output is unlikely to have any negative consequences. Personally, I prefer the "-" solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Jeremy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 23:58, Neil Simmonds <<a href="mailto:neilsimmonds1808@gmail.com">neilsimmonds1808@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I've already tried running it with a set -x in the script and get the following in the log,<div><br></div><div><div><div>+ rm /xymon/client/tmp/mq-server_name.11677</div><div>+ TMPFILE=/xymon/client/tmp/mq-server_name.11684</div><div>+ touch /xymon/client/tmp/mq-server_name.11684</div><div>+ echo 'client server_name.mqcollect mqcollect'</div><div>+ '[' 1 '!=' 0 ']'</div><div>+ QMGR=PPIM01</div><div>+ shift</div><div>+ sudo -u mqm mqsc PPIM01 'display qstatus(*) curdepth msgage lgetdate lgettime'</div><div>+ '[' 0 '!=' 0 ']'</div><div>+ /xymon/client/bin/xymon ukclamon01 @</div><div>log:/opt/IBM/MDMPIM/logs/workflowengine_server_name/db_manager.log:10240</div><div>log:`find -L /opt/IBM/MDMPIM/logs/\w*server_name/\w*.log -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -size 0`:10240</div><div>log:/applogs/mdmpim/logs/appsvr_server_name/default.log:10240</div><div>log:/opt/IBM/MDMPIM/logs/workflowengine_server_name/customegl.log:20480</div><div>log:/opt/IBM/MDMPIM/logs/workflowengine_server_name/default.log:20480</div><div>ignore INFO</div><div>trigger internal error</div><div>file:`find /applogs/mdmpim/dump -name *.txt`</div><div>file:`find /applogs/mdmpim/dump -name *.phd``</div></div><div><br></div><div>From there I can see that it appears to be the line that sends the message to Xymon that's doing it but U can't see why. </div><div><br></div><div>The line in question is underlined and BOLD below (copied the whole script for context)</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>TMPFILE="$XYMONTMP/mq-$MACHINE.$$"</div><div><br></div><div>touch $TMPFILE</div><div><br></div><div>echo "client $MACHINE.mqcollect mqcollect" >$TMPFILE</div><div><br></div><div>#</div><div>while [ $# != 0 ]</div><div>do</div><div> QMGR=$1; shift</div><div> sudo -u mqm mqsc $QMGR 'display qstatus(*) curdepth msgage lgetdate lgettime' >> $TMPFILE</div><div> ##(echo 'dis ql(*) curdepth'; echo 'dis chs(*)'; echo 'end') | su - mqm -c "runmqsc $QMGR" >> $TMPFILE</div><div>done</div><div>#</div><div><br></div><div><u><b>$XYMON $XYMSRV "@" < $TMPFILE</b></u></div><div>rm $TMPFILE</div><div><br></div><div>exit 0</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 5:54 PM Damien Martins via Xymon <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Damien Martins <<a href="mailto:damien@makelofine.org" target="_blank">damien@makelofine.org</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:44:19 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [Xymon] mq.sh script<br>
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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm not using this script, but you may run it using:</p>
<p> bash -x $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/mq.sh queuemanagername</p>
<p>replace $XYMONCLIENTHOME with the correct path.</p>
<p>Bash will generate output debug info, so you may see what it is
doing.</p>
<p>Also, you may check if the log destination is hardcoded in the
script.</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all, I'm seeing some really strange
behaviour from the MQ.SH script/
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<div>We have the standard mq.sh script that comes with
Xymon and we have it setup in
/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg as follows </div>
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<div>[mq]</div>
<div> ENVFILE
$XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg</div>
<div> CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/mq.sh
queuemanagername</div>
<div> LOGFILE
$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/xymonmq2client.log</div>
<div> INTERVAL 1m</div>
</div>
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<div>The behaviour that we are seeing is that,as
expected MQ.SH writes nothing in the way of errors
into xymonmq2client.log but what it does write into
there is the contents of
/xymon/client/tmp/logfetch.hostname.cfg </div>
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<div>(i.e.</div>
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<div>log:/applogs/broker/broker.log:20480</div>
<div>ignore MARK</div>
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<div>I'm at a loss to explain this so am reaching out to
the list to see if anyone has come across this </div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Neil.</div>
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