[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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>     Ciprian Parfon
>     System & Network Engineer
>     +40 721879113
>     ciprian.parfon at gmail.com
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