[Xymon] xymon client in 'local' mode, build pain

[henrik at hswn.dk]

Den 2014-02-08 3:49, John Thurston skrev:
> I've been using my Solaris BB clients with my Xymon server, but am
> hoping the xymon client will be more zfs-aware than the ancient BB
> client. To that end, I'm trying to compile a xymon client.
>
> I've spent most of the day fighting with the 'make' process.

[snip]

> The crazy part is when I compare the results of making with --client
> and --server. I can only find one difference. A --client build has
> created the application bin/xymond_client

There are two ways of running the client: In "server-side" mode, where 
all of the configuration and data analysis happens on the Xymon server, 
and "client-side" mode where you configure the client locally (the way 
BB does).

The "xymond_client" binary is the only difference between a client- and 
server-side configured client. "xymond_client" is the program that 
analyses the client data and generates the status updates, so when you 
configure the client for "client-side" configuration, then you get this 
extra binary. However, it also uses a lot of external libraries that you 
can avoid installing on all of the servers you monitor by using 
server-side configuration.

Client-side really is a hack, and it will probably be removed in v5. So 
I really do recommend that you use server-side configuration, to keep 
the client installation as dumb as possible.


> Is this really the only difference? If so, why is there a broken
> build process for the '--client' option? Why doesn't the '--server'
> option also build the xymond_client and leave it abandoned in the bin
> directory?

"configure --server" builds both the Xymon server programs and the 
Xymon client programs. The client programs end up in the 
"~xymon/client/" directory.

Building only the client with "configure --client" should work, but 
I'll readily admit that testing on Solaris is not at the top of my 
priority list. I haven't had reports that it is completely broken, 
though.


Regards,
Henrik