[Xymon] How to setup msgs and file column ?

[Thomas.Weber at ses.com]

Hi Jeremy,

sorry for my late reply. you really helped me a lot.
 
I made some tests in the mean time and well, I modified some clients for 
the centralized mode. 
In fact all client installations that I have were configured/compiled with 
local mode. 
So, I took out the "--local" in the clientlaunch.cfg file, restarted the 
client,  and configured the rest as you said in analysis.cfg on the 
server.

Now I get the message files (at least those that were readable, but that 
is another problem) on the WebPage.

Is taking out the "--local" enough in order to switch clients to 
centralized mode ?

The problem I have now is that in analysis.cfg  I have configured PROC and 
PORT, but the server column for these servers keep saying "No checks 
defined".

Maybe you have also an idea for that.

Thomas F. Weber





From:   Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
To:     Thomas.Weber at ses.com
Cc:     Xymon mailinglist <xymon at xymon.com>
Date:   10/14/2011 01:27
Subject:        Re: [Xymon] How to setup msgs and file column ?



On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:17 AM,  <Thomas.Weber at ses.com> wrote:
> Or do msgs work only in the centralized mode ?

By default, msgs only works in centralized mode, and you define the
parameters in client-local.cfg on the server (as you have done).  For
non-centralized mode, you must add "--local" into clientlaunch.cfg
after "xymonclient.sh".

Are you unable to use centralized mode for some reason?  I can't tell
if you're trying non-centralized mode because centralized mode is not
working, or because of some other reason.

Assuming you'd want to get centralized mode to work, have a look for
the logfetch tempfile in $XYMONTMP (which is /tmp for me).  The file
will be called "logfetch.name-of-server.cfg".  Check that the content
looks OK (same as the matching [servername] stanza from
client-local.cfg), and check that the timestamp is within 10 minutes.
[There's also a logfetch.name-of-server.status file that might contain
clues.  Not sure of the format, so dunno how useful.]

If the logfetch tempfile is OK, try running logfetch against it and
see what it shows.  Something like this:

  sudo -u xymon /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/logfetch
/tmp/logfetch.`uname -n`.cfg /tmp/test.status

It should show output for each entry in the .cfg file.

Cheers
Jeremy




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