[Xymon] help with xymon client configuration
Ciprian Parfon
ciprian.parfon at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 11:45:25 CET 2013
Hi Chris
Hmm ... On your suggestion I went to "Reports" > " Ghost Clients " and
indeed I have that host listed there. Apparently xymon reads the "short"
host name, without domain name (fqdn).
Thank you.
On 01/07/2013 12:39 PM, Chris.Morris at rwe.com wrote:
> Is the xymond status displaying any "ghost" reports? This would
> indicate that the client hostname does not match the one defined in
> the hosts.cfg file on the xymon server!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Ciprian Parfon
> *Sent:* 07 January 2013 10:33
> *To:* Jeremy Laidman
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] help with xymon client configuration
>
> Hi J
>
> I do have the IP of the Xymon server in xymonclient.cfg on the
> hosts which has the client installed. I have checked from the
> client if the port, 1984 is open and it is.
>
> zeratul etc # telnet 89.22.97.130 1984
> Trying 89.22.97.130...
> Connected to 89.22.97.130.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> quit
>
> Unfortunatelly there isn't anything more the the "conn" "info" and
> "trends" on Xymon server display.
>
> I can't see anything relevant in the xymond logs.
>
> On the hosts which I have the client installed I have this:
>
> zeratul client # ps aufx |grep xymon
> root 10279 0.0 0.0 4452 756 pts/1 S+ 12:32
> 0:00 | | | \_ grep --colour=auto xymon
> root 10115 0.0 0.0 2048 512 ? S 12:30 0:00 sh
> -c vmstat 300 2 1>./tmp/xymon_vmstat.zeratul.10083 2>&1; mv
> ./tmp/xymon_vmstat.zeratul.10083 ./tmp/xymon_vmstat.zeratul
> root 10226 0.0 0.0 2028 504 ? Ss 12:31 0:00
> ./bin/xymonlaunch --config=./etc/clientlaunch.cfg
> --log=./logs/clientlaunch.log
> --pidfile=./logs/clientlaunch.zeratul.pid
> root 10263 0.0 0.0 2048 508 ? S 12:31 0:00 sh
> -c vmstat 300 2 1>./tmp/xymon_vmstat.zeratul.10231 2>&1; mv
> ./tmp/xymon_vmstat.zeratul.10231 ./tmp/xymon_vmstat.zeratul
>
>
> On 01/07/2013 05:11 AM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>> The only configuration required on the Xymon client is the IP
>> address of the Xymon server. Typically, this is configured in
>> the file xymonclient.cfg, where you can set XYMSRV to the correct
>> IP address.
>>
>> Then you start the client running, perhaps by an init script.
>> The master Xymon client process is xymonlaunch. If this isn't
>> running, then you won't get any local details (cpu, memory, etc).
>>
>> There are logfiles (on my system, in /var/log/xymon/) that might
>> help identify any problems.
>>
>> J
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7 January 2013 06:32, Ciprian Parfon <ciprian.parfon at gmail.com
>> <mailto:ciprian.parfon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have just installed a fresh xymon server with the latest
>> xymon version. I have also managed to install the client on
>> some external host. Both are running fine and the monitoring
>> page is showing correctly. However I haven't managed to find
>> how can I configure multiple checks on the client side, as
>> for the single host I have added all I have is "conn", "info"
>> and "trends" columns. On the host which is running the xymon
>> client I have the following files which you can see below:
>>
>> zeratul etc # pwd
>> /home/xymon/client/etc
>> zeratul etc # ls -la
>> total 40
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon root 4096 2013-01-06 19:31 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 8 xymon root 4096 2013-01-06 16:58 ..
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon root 975 2013-01-06 16:58 clientlaunch.cfg
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon root 20959 2013-01-06 16:58 localclient.cfg
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon root 1850 2013-01-06 16:58 xymonclient.cfg
>>
>> I would like to enable at least cpu, load, memory, disk etc ...
>>
>> Where can I make this available?
>>
>>
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>
>
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> +40 721879113
> ciprian.parfon at gmail.com
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