[Xymon] Bug in handling of Windows services

[Neil Simmonds]

I’ve been doing some further testing on this and as far as I can tell, I was wrong about this being a bug in Xymon, it is just very particular about the analysis.cfg file (and the bug is actually in the documentation).


If I can’t narrow the problem down any further Henrik, I’ll send the data across to you. At the moment I’m thinking it’s the order of the values status= and started=. The documentation says status= first and then optionally started= however initial testing leads me to believe it’s the other way round.

However I’m seeing some funnies when testing so I’m going to plot out a testing strategy and then run a full set of tests. Once I’ve done that I will post the conclusions to the board

Regards,
Neil.

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk
Sent: 05 February 2014 11:55
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Bug in handling of Windows services


Den 2014-02-05 12:51, Neil Simmonds skrev:
I believe there is a bug in the way Xymon handles Windows service data. I’ve always used BBWin agents and had the issue when a Service is in a stopped state that Xymon actually reports,

Service is started/automatic - want started/automatic

This is with the analysis.cfg line of

SVC Service status=started startup=automatic

I’m currently testing the WinPSClient and have found that I also get the same erroneous message with that. This suggests to me the Xymon is icorrectly handling the data from the client.
Can you send me a copy of the client data from such a case? And the configuration data (analysis.cfg, hosts.cfg entry) please.

Regards,
Henrik

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