[Xymon] A couple of migration questions

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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So I guess the result is that I could change the 1984 port to be a
proxy instead, changing xymond to say 1985, and the only thing that
I'd have to change to 1985 would be where the proxy forwards the
messages instead of all of the clients, right?

On 12/10/2012 03:10 PM, Larry Barber wrote:
> There's no problem with having xymonproxy and xymond running on the
> same machine, you just need to change the port that one of them
> listens on. It's usually easier to change xymond's port. I have run
> several servers with xymonproxy running "on top" of xymond, where
> the xymonproxy instance would forward to both another port on the
> machine it was running on (usually 1985) and to another machine
> that was running a backup instance of xymon or a test instance.
> 
> Thanks, Larry Barber
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Novosielski, Ryan
> <novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>> wrote:
> 
> On 12/09/2012 06:53 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>> On 7 December 2012 06:57, Novosielski, Ryan <novosirj at umdnj.edu
> <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>
>> <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>>> wrote:
> 
>> 1) Do the xymonnet machines listen on the Xymon port? They seem 
>> to, but I can't see any reason why they should. If they didn't, 
>> I'd configure the xymonnet machines to use the standard port
>> 1984 to give me less to do when going live.
> 
>> I agree, the xymonnet process should not be listening on any
>> port. Only the xymond process listens on port 1984.
> 
> Well, tracked this one down! Most things have "NEEDS xymond" and
> at one point I thought that mattered and didn't disable xymond.
> It's been running for no reason on my setup apparently since the
> beginning.
> 
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