[Xymon] xymonproxy SetUp Help Requested

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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I too do this for one of my Solaris zones. It doesn't make too much
sense to have the alert come from the parent machine as only the one
zone is running on the machine (to isolate it from the hardware and a
more serious root breach), but the zone cannot read RAID status or the
like. The global zone runs the scripts, impersonating the local zone.

On 03/13/2013 07:52 AM, Vernon Everett wrote:
> I had a similar situation at a client a few years ago. I wrote a
> script that ran on Xymon client foo, which collected info from 
> device/client bar Client foo, then sent xymon status and data
> messages to the server as if they were coming from client bar. Very
> easy to do. All you need to do is make sure that the $MACHINE value
> is set appropriately.
> 
> Regards Vernon
> 
> On 13 March 2013 19:13, Nick Pettefar <Nick at pettefar.com 
> <mailto:Nick at pettefar.com>> wrote:
> 
> I have an xymon client for a  NAS but the NAS is connected via
> another xymon client and is not reachable from the xymon server.
> How would I set this up in the xymon server configuration - does it
> need a hosts.cfg entry and if so, what would it look like?  On the
> client, do I give it the address of the xymon client running
> xymonproxy or the actual server?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nick Pettefar _______________________________________________ Xymon
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> 
> 
> 
> -- "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of
> victory" - General George Patton


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