[Xymon] Xymon Setup

[Steve Coile]

Looks to me like (the *xymonserver.cfg* variable) *$XYMON* isn't defined
with an absolute path, and (the environment variable) *$PATH* does not
include *~xymon/server/bin*.


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*Steve Coile*Senior Network and Systems Engineer, McClatchy Interactive
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
wrote:

> That's weird.  The error message says that it's trying to load the task
> defined in tasks.cfg section [xymon].  My tasks.cfg has no [xymon].  The
> nearest match is [xymond].  Similarly, the command 'xymon' would have been
> defined in a "CMD" line, and my tasks.cfg has no such line.
>
> You should check your tasks.cfg (and tasks.d directory contents) for
> invalid entries.  A useful diagnostic is to dump the tasks like so:
>
> xymoncmd sh -c '$XYMONHOME/bin/xymonlaunch
> --config=$XYMONHOME/etc/tasks.cfg --dump'
>
> This will show you the tasks configuration after being parsed by
> xymonlaunch, which includes slurping in include files, stripping comments,
> de-duplicating entries, and dropping unrecognised keywords.
>
> J
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> On 19 September 2014 04:12, Andre Beyleveldt <Andreb at paym8.co.za> wrote:
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>>  Hi Guys
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>> I need some assistance with regards to setting up Xymon, I have seen it
>> once or twice but the actual config itself I have never done.
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>> I used the man pages etc. but I can’t get my Xymon url to show the page,
>> checked the log and I am getting the following.
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>> Then the error just repeats over and over.
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>> Does anyone perhaps have an example of what needs to be setup that I can
>> use to reference to mine to see what I did wrong.
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>> Kind regards,
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