[Xymon] Xymon Powershell Client Problems

[Brandon Dale]

I have been testing the XymonPSClient for windows found a few problems I was hoping someone could help with, I set this up on a few machines running 2008r2 and 2012r2



1.       Tried to install on Server 2012 R2 running powershell version 4, got this error:

PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 install

At C:\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:28 char:24
+ $XymonClientVersion = "$Id: xymonclient.ps1 7348 2014-01-15 05:13:48Z dbaldwin $ ...
+                        ~~~~
Variable reference is not valid. ':' was not followed by a valid variable name character. Consider using ${} to
delimit the name.
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (:) [], ParseException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidVariableReferenceWithDrive

I edited xymonclient.ps1 and just removed the ":" character and that seems to make it work.



2.       setting clientfqdn 0 doesn't stop it appending the fqdn, to get this to work I have to manually set the hostname without the fqdn on this line and uncomment the line:

# $clientname  = "winxptest"     # Define this to override the default client hostname

Here is an example of my config

PS C:\xymon> .\xymonclient.ps1 config
XymonPSClient config:


servers          : kgxymon01
clientconfigfile : C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg
clientlogfile    : C:\xymon\xymonclient.log
clientname       : test05
clientfqdn       : 0
loginterval      : 60
name             : test05
loopinterval     : 60
reportevt        : 1



Settable Params and values:
    clientbbwinmembug=1
    clientconfigfile=C:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg
    clientfqdn=0
    clientlogfile=C:\xymon\xymonclient.log
    clientlower=1
    clientname=test05
    clientremotecfgexec=0
    loginterval=60
    loopinterval=60
    maxlogage=60
    name=test05
    reportevt=1
    servers=kgxymon01
    slowscanrate=72
    wanteddisks=3
    wantedlogs=Application System Security

and here is part of the contents of c:\xymon\xymonclient.log the fqdn is still added.

clientname
test05.mydomain.local
[XymonPSClientInfo]
Id      : 2212
Handles : 442
CPU     : 24.640625
Name    : powershell


3.       Can't filter out events, the settings from client-local.cfg on the xymon server are successfully copied to c:\xymon\xymonconfig.cfg with the filter rules I had setup for BBwin which work. For example

eventlog:application:10240
ignore This is a test

I would expect this to ignore any event where the message is "This is a test" this works in BBwin, with the powershell client the event will still appear in the msgs column, as far as I can these filters don't work at all with the PowerShell client but I may be doing it wrong.



4.       In xymonclient.ps1 for function XymonMsgs it has the following:

Get-EventLog -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue -LogName $log.Log -asBaseObject -After $since | where {$_.EntryType -match "Error|Warning"}

This is missing "Critical" level, after a quick google it seems like get-eventlog might not support retrieving critical level events, does this mean the powershell client will never report on critical events?


Brandon Dale

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