[Xymon] xympnproxy and xymonnet

[Steve Holmes]

It works like a charm.
Thanks!
Steve

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:26 PM, <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:

>
>
> > I have a dual Xymon server setup. There is a main display server in a
> > network context that allows connections to apache, etc, There is a
> network
> > tester which is buried deep in the middle of the network which can do
> > network tests to everything in the network. We also have a legacy private
> > network which can't send client messages to the display server, but the
> > network test server has an interface on that private network. The network
> > tester is also running xymond because I didn't realize I could run the
> > server without it. [The network test server is configured with $XYMSRV
> set
> > to the IP of the display server.  The docs are really not clear on how to
> > set up a network test server.]
> >
> > In tasks,cfg I see
> >
> > # This is the main Xymon daemon. This must be running on at least
> > # one server in your setup. If you are setting up a server to do
> > # just network tests or run xymonproxy, it is OK to disable this (then
> > # you also need to remove the "NEEDS xymond" lines for the tasks
> > # you want to run).
> > [xymond]
> >
> > which implies I don't need xymond on the network tester. But, of course
> it
> > will need xymonnet.
> >
> > Can I safely turn off xymond there (removing the mentioned NEEDS) and
> turn
> > on xymonproxy to try to get our private network hosts in the game? Will
> > the
> > network tester then continue to send data messages to the display server
> > as
> > it currently does or do I need to do something different to get it to use
> > xymonproxy for that? I'm not really sure how it would know to send data
> to
> > the display server without xymond running, but apparently it would (?).
>
> Correct; you can set up the system on the network poller exactly as if it
> were a full xymon server running xymond locally, then disable [xymond],
> remove the 'NEEDS xymond' from [xymonnet], and enable [xymonproxy] with
> --server= in the relevant tasks.cfg stanza set to the IP of the real
> server.
>
> Theoretically, it should be pretty transparent for both your xymonnet
> instance as well as any pollers or clients reporting in to it.
>
> Regards,
>
> -jc
>
>


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