[Xymon] Tests for the xymon-server

[cleaver at terabithia.org]

It also might be worth considering unifying the client and server
configuration methodologies into a single, unified config (or config.d)
space.

-jc


> Thanks Henrik,
> That works perfectly.
>
> I think Ryan is correct in saying that this should be included by default.
> You expect it to behave as any client.
> I couldn't find any reference about the include statement in any docs I
> looked in!
> Man page for tasks.cfg doesn't have anything.
>
> - Roland
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
> Of henrik at hswn.dk
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2012 10:56 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Tests for the xymon-server
>
> Hi,
>
> you could add your extra tests to clientlaunch.cfg, but by default this
> file is not included in the config read from tasks.cfg.
>
> So either add your extra tests directly in tasks.cfg, or add
>   include /usr/lib/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
> to your tasks.cfg file.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:03:15 +0000, Roland Soderstrom
> <Rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:
>> Then what could be the problem?
>> I obviously missed something.
>>
>> I got the same issue on 4.3.5 and 4.3.10
>> I find nothing in the server logs.
>> There are no client-logs in client/logs (even though specified)
>> I double checked the vars and they are working.
>>
>> xymon at host % /usr/local/xymon/client/bin/xymoncmd
>> 2012-10-24 08:22:40 Using default environment file
>> /usr/local/xymon/client/etc/xymonclient.cfg
>> $ echo $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs
>> /usr/local/xymon/client/logs
>>
>> In client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
>> [prtdiag]
>>         ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
>>         CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/xymon-prtdiag.ksh
>>         LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/xymon-prtdiag.log
>>         INTERVAL 5m
>>
>> It does all the normal client tests, client/tmp has all the normal
>> client-tmp stuff
>> root at pxym01:/usr/local/xymon/server/etc# pargs 9868
>> 9868:   xymond_channel --channel=client
>> --log=/usr/local/xymon/logs/clientdata.log xymo
>> argv[0]: xymond_channel
>> argv[1]: --channel=client
>> argv[2]: --log=/usr/local/xymon/logs/clientdata.log
>> argv[3]: xymond_client
>> root at pxym01:/usr/local/xymon/server/etc# tail
>> /usr/local/xymon/logs/clientdata.log
>> 2012-09-21 13:28:38 Peer not up, flushing message queue
>> 2012-10-24 08:16:05 Peer not up, flushing message queue
>> 2012-10-24 08:25:43 Peer not up, flushing message queue
>> root at pxym01:/usr/local/xymon/server/etc#
>>
>>
>> - Roland
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2012 3:37 PM
>> To: Roland Soderstrom
>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Tests for the xymon-server
>>
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>> On 10/22/2012 07:03 PM, Roland Soderstrom wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am a bit confused on how to add extra tests to the xymon-server
>>> itself.
>>>
>>> In server/etc/tasks,cfg
>>>
>>> I run the [xymonclient]
>>>
>>> If I would like to add some other tests like ZFS and prtdiag I would
>>> have though I add them as in any client in
>>>
>>> client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But to get these tests work I have to add them in server/etc/tasks,cfg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure you don't need to do that. The client should read
>> clientlaunch and run what's in the cfg.
>>
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