[Xymon] Procs not reporting

Jewel Makda jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
Wed Oct 5 15:45:17 CEST 2011


Thanks!  I was actually editing the wrong file. Once I edited the 
anaylsis.cfg file it started working!

On 10/4/2011 4:28 PM, shea4th at comcast.net wrote:
>
> Maybe I missed something in the email chain, but you shouldn't have to 
> touch localclient.cfg file on a client.
>
> The analysis.cfg file on the Xymon server should have the PROC entries 
> in it.  Unless the client and server
>
> are the same, then you need to start xymonclient.sh with a '--local' 
> switch, but even then, let the server handle it.
>
> Again if I missed something, then my apologies
>
> Greg Shea
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>     On 10/3/2011 4:41 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
>
>         If your server is only showing  conn, http, info, smtp and
>         trends, then the client is not reporting anything.  So either:
>
>           1) xymon is not running on the client;
>
>     The process is running.
>
>           2) the client is reporting a different name to what the
>         server expects;
>
>     I would like for it to report only under the first part of the
>     name (i.e. name.domain.com and use name instead) When I put both
>     of these in the config files it doesn't work but if I use the fqdn
>     it starts reporting.  I did this and now I have a "Clear" status
>     for files, ports, and procs.  I have spent hours trying different
>     configs in my localclient.cfg on the server I wanted monitored but
>     nothing is working.  I did check to see if the server was in
>     ghosts clients and it is not here. So it is communicating with the
>     xymon server since I am able to see all of my processes listed
>     under the procs colums but what I have in my localclient.cfg files
>     seems to be getting ignored.  Here is what I have:
>     HOST=xxx.xxxxx.xx
>       UP 1h
>       LOAD 5.0 10.0
>       DISK * 90 95
>       MEMPHYS 100 101
>       MEMSWAP 50 80
>       PROC httpd 1 20 red
>       PROC qrunner 1 50 red
>
>     Here is what it looks like now on my server:
>
>
>           3) the client is sending reports to some ip that is not the
>         xymon server
>
>         Do you see anything in the "Ghost Clients" list on the
>         "Reports"  tab in the web page??  If the client name is being
>         reported wrong, that's where it should show up.
>
>         Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>         On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jewel Makda
>         <jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu
>         <mailto:jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu>> wrote:
>
>             I had a redhat client and have xymon running on it but
>             it's not reporting what I have in the localclient.cfg
>             file.  It's only reporting (conn, http, info, smtp and
>             trends) which is what the server has been configured to
>             look at.  I have the following in my file:
>
>
>             HOST="lists.domain"
>                UP 1h
>                PROC httpd 1 5
>                PROC postfix  1 15
>
>
>             Bothing is showing up under PROCS on my server.  I know I
>             am editing the right file and that the service is running.
>              Both configs have the same host name - what am I doing
>             wrong. I am running the latest version of xymon.  I also
>             have both machines on the same network and they can see
>             each other so I know it's not a port blocking issue.
>
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