[Xymon] A couple of migration questions

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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Thanks. This is all helpful. I did the upgrade today and things are
pretty much back to working the way I want them to. Going forward I
should be able to take advantage of some of the new stuff and make
some of it more robust than my old setup.

On 12/10/2012 05:29 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
> I do that to. Works pretty slick.
> 
> One thing we just ran into though was with bluesync. We’d get a
> feedback loop and the disabled tests wouldn’t stay disabled.
> 
> We decided to upgrade to 4.3.10 and use the built in
> xymond_distribute.
> 
> Unfortunately, that didn’t help. The same problem persisted. Then
> I figured out that we should send to xymond not the proxy. That
> solved the problem.
> 
> *From:*xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Larry Barber *Sent:* Monday, December 10, 2012 2:10
> PM *To:* Novosielski, Ryan *Cc:* xymon >> xymon at xymon.com 
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] A couple of migration questions
> 
> 
> 
> 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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