[Xymon] clientconfig.cfg not getting updated

Tue Dec 15 08:04:04 CET 2015

OK, by adding heaps of debug "WriteLog"s, I believe I've found the problem.

Version 2.04 of the script.

2474 function XymonClientConfig($cfglines)
2475 {
2476     if ($cfglines -eq $null -or $cfglines -eq "") { return }
2477         WriteLog "DEBUG - " + $cfglines

The above prints "DEBUG - " and nothing more, which tells me that it is not
successfully talking to the server.

The XymonSend function worked though...

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:

> HI Brandon
>
> I appreciate your help with this.
>
> The log file (c:\xymonclient.log) is being written to and I can see
> "Using new remote config, saving locally" however the clientconfig.cfg
> while the files time stamp updates, the content doesn't change.  I
> ended up putting that section of code in a try catch block but no
> error was generated.
>
> Doing the XymonSend resulted in the whole file being downloaded being
> downloaded from the Xymon server.
>
> I've done the Windows equiv of chmod 777 on the client-local.cfg to
> run out permission problems.
>
> It looks
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au>
> wrote:
> > It should be writing a log file when it runs c:\xymonclient.log, do you
> see that log file being written, does it contain any errors?
> > And in xymon are you seeing any of the data make it to your xymon
> server, you should see all the data in the clientlog column.
> >
> >
> > One thing I have done in the past when having issues is use xymonsend
> from
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/xymonsend.ps1
> to confirm I can talk to the xymon server. You can dot source this into
> powershell and run something like
> >
> > XymonSend "config client-local.cfg" "xymonservername" >
> c:\temp\client-local.cfg
> >
> > At least then you can see if you can actually pull down the files on
> that server or not.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Brandon
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colin Coe [mailto:colin.coe at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 12:59 PM
> > To: Brandon Dale
> > Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] clientconfig.cfg not getting updated
> >
> > Hi Brandon
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > Yep, read through the doco a couple of times now trying to get this
> working.
> >
> > 1. Yep, c:\program files\xymon\xymonclient_config.xml exists (and
> > xymonclient.ps1 is in this directory) and contains:
> > ---
> > <XymonSettings>
> >
> >   <servers>xxx.xx.106.11 xxx.xx.176.11</servers>
> >
> >   <clientlogfile>c:\xymonclient.log</clientlogfile>
> >   <clientconfigfile>c:\program
> files\xymon\clientconfig.cfg</clientconfigfile>
> >
> >   <clientfqdn>0</clientfqdn>
> >   <clientlower>1</clientlower>
> >
> >   <clientremotecfgexec>1</clientremotecfgexec>
> > </XymonSettings>
> > ---
> >
> > 2. On the server (RHEL6.7, Teribithia RPM 4.3.24),
> /etc/xymon/client-local.cfg contains:
> > ---
> > [powershell]
> > clientversion:2.04:http://http.url.to.file/pub/
> > tssessions
> > adreplicaton
> > ---
> >
> > I've changed "[os=powershell]" to just "[powershell]" and removed all
> but the above (for the powershell client)
> >
> > 3. I've stopped/started the powershell client and waited for a while
> with no joy.
> >
> > I've confirmed that the clients can manually download the file.
> >
> > Not sure what I'm missing here...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Brandon Dale <
> BDale at kitchengroup.com.au> wrote:
> >> If you haven't already I would read through
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/XymonPSClient.doc
> it's pretty decent documentation.
> >>
> >> Try double checking this stuff:
> >>
> >> 1. Make sure you have copied the .xml file that contains the
> >> configuration for the client to the local machine into the same
> >> directory where the xymonclient.ps1 script lives
> >> http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/xymo
> >> nclient_config.xml and that this contains a path for the
> >> client-local.cfg file and has clientremotecfgexec set to 1 (this is
> >> already done by default in the .xml file in that link)
> >>
> >> 2. Put your settings into the client-local.cfg file on your xymon
> >> server, I have put an example below, the valid commands are listed in
> >> XymonPSClient.doc
> >>
> >> [powershell]
> >> eventlogswanted:*:250000:warning,critical,error
> >> ifstat:ipv4
> >> clientversion:2.04:\\somepath\goes\here
> >>
> >> 3. Wait for or manually run the PowerShell client (by restarting the
> XymonPSClient Service in windows), you need to do this at least twice as
> the first time you run it, it will get the commands you have in your
> client-local.cfg file on your xymon server and write them to the
> clientconfig.cfg (or whatever you called it in the .xml file) the second
> time it runs it will start reading it.
> >>
> >> Note: make sure you read the documentation for the eventlog ignore
> rules, the syntax is different. You can still use the IGNORE PATTERN but
> the way you select which eventlogs to check has changed in the powershell
> client compared to bbwin.
> >>
> >> Personally I ignore eventlogs in the analysis.cfg on the xymon server
> rather the in client-local.cfg as you can use regex to match on eventid +
> Source rather than just the description.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >>
> >> Brandon
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Colin Coe
> >> Sent: Monday, 14 December 2015 2:48 PM
> >> To: xymon at xymon.com
> >> Subject: [Xymon] clientconfig.cfg not getting updated
> >>
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> I'm noticing that the Windows Powershell Xymon client isn't being
> updated to reflect changes in client-local.cfg.  I had thought that changes
> on the Xymon server to client-local.cfg would result in changes on the
> Windows clients.  Am I wrong here, and if so, what's the correct way to get
> these changes propagated out?
> >>
> >> I'm wanting the following to be pushed out to the clients:
> >> ---
> >> tail -n 2 /etc/xymon/client-local.cfg
> >> [os=powershell]
> >> clientversion:2.04:http://benmon1p.scada.horizonpower.com.au/pub/
> >> ---
> >>
> >> clientlocal.cfg contains:
> >> ---
> >> eventlog:security
> >> ignore success
> >> ignore Success
> >> ignore "The local computer may not have the necessary registry
> information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer"
> >> eventlog:system
> >> ignore "Contact the administrator to install the driver before you log
> in again"
> >> tssessions
> >> adreplicaton
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> CC
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> >> Xymon at xymon.com
> >> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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