[Xymon] xymonfetch

[Galen Johnson]

OK...I got it to stop giving me the errors referenced below by adding "NEEDS xymond" to the xymonfetch block.  I've enable debug and it appears to be connecting and returning data but the server page still only shows the network test tabs.  Gonna see if letting it sit for a few cycles makes a difference.

=G=

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From: Galen Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 6:52 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Mike Burger
Subject: RE: [Xymon] xymonfetch

I must be doing something wrong.

On my client, I have XYMSRV="127.0.0.1" and I've commented out the "DISABLE" in clientlaunch.cfg.  I'm seeing content in the /tmp/msg.myhost.txt file that looks like what I would expect.

On the server, I've added "pulldata" to the entry in etc/hosts.cfg, edited the etc/tasks.cfg to comment out "DISABLE" and set the server IP to my server's IP as well as tried 127.0.0.1.  I see the following in my log:

2013-08-21 18:38:06 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Connection failed)
2013-08-21 18:38:06 ->  Could not connect to Xymon daemon at 10.40.1.39:1984 (Connection refused)
2013-08-21 18:38:06 ->  Recipient '10.40.1.39', timeout 15
2013-08-21 18:38:06 ->  1st line: 'config hosts.cfg'
2013-08-21 18:38:06 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond, code 5
2013-08-21 18:38:06 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to file-load
2013-08-21 18:38:06 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.40.1.39:1984 (req 2): Connection refused
2013-08-21 18:48:43 Caught TERM signal, terminating
2013-08-21 18:48:45 Whoops ! Failed to send message (Connection failed)
2013-08-21 18:48:45 ->  Could not connect to Xymon daemon at 10.40.1.39:1984 (Connection refused)
2013-08-21 18:48:45 ->  Recipient '10.40.1.39', timeout 15
2013-08-21 18:48:45 ->  1st line: 'config hosts.cfg'
2013-08-21 18:48:45 Cannot load hosts.cfg from xymond, code 5
2013-08-21 18:48:45 Failed to load from xymond, reverting to file-load

The server is also not updating anything outside my typical network tests.  Anyone have any idea what I may be missing here?

=G=

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From: Mike Burger [mburger at bubbanfriends.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 11:23 AM
To: Galen Johnson
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonfetch

> Hey,
>
> I need to set up some clients to use xymonfetch and the man page isn't
> exactly clear.
>
> --server=XYMON.SERVER.IP
> Defines the IP address of the Xymon server where the collected client
> messages are forwarded to. By default, messages are sent to the loopback
> address 127.0.0.1, i.e. to a Xymon server running on the same host as
> xymonfetch.
>
> This implies that I need to have a server instance running...or am I
> misunderstanding what it's saying?  Has anyone done this and could provide
> a some guidance?
>
> thx

Simply, what it means is that if you're running xymonfetch from the Xymon
server, itself, then the --server variable could be filled in with the
localhost ip.

If, however, you're running xymonfetch from a Xymon client, elsewhere,
then you should fill the in --server variable with the actual IP of the
actual Xymon server.

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