[Xymon] sending data without running a client

[Benjamin P. August]

There also used to be a perl-based client running around somewhere, maybe on deadcat. I thought about using it on some Mac servers I inherited, but then decided to install MacPorts and got the client that way. 

----- Original Message -----
From: cleaver at terabithia.org
To: "Elizabeth Jones" <ejones at egov.com>
Cc: "Xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 1:22:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Xymon] sending data without running a client

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jones, Elizabeth <Ejones at egov.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to send data directly to the xymon server from another
>> server without having a xymon client sending it? We have some production
>> servers where I am not comfortable installing the client because it
>> wants
>> packages that are not already installed on those servers. Can I have my
>> own
>> scripts send data directly?****
>>
>> **
>>
>
> you cannot just compile a ``xymon'' bin and drop it in on all the other
> servers?
>
> then you could just use  $ cat statusmsg.txt | $XYMON $XYMSRV "@"
>

The client can also be compiled completely statically (I've done it with
dietlibc), so shouldn't pull in anything else really.

There are also ways to run the client without installing a local user, so
you can run it with any unprivileged account that has SSH or cron access.

-jc


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