[Xymon] clientconfig.cfg not getting updated

Tue Dec 15 12:28:57 CET 2015

HI all

Yep, tried single server with the same result.  I've confirmed that
the client-local.cfg file is the same on both servers.

When I add debugging in "function XymonClientConfig($cfglines)", I see
that $cfglines only contains what was already in the file.  I think
the problem is that the client is not successfully downloading
client-local.cfg from the server.

Thanks

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:57 PM,  <zak.beck at accenture.com> wrote:
> Hi
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> Your syntax for tssessions and adreplicaton is incorrect, but I would not
> expect this to stop the file updating.
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> tssessions should be tssessions:<yellow>:<red> where <yellow> and <red> are
> the numbers of sessions free below which you will get the appropriate alert,
> e.g. tssessions:10:2
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> adreplicaton should be adreplicationcheck.
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> As you have two servers, is the config for client-local.cfg the same on both
> – I think we just take the last one connected to.
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> You could try it with just one server and see what happens.
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> Zak Beck
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> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Colin Coe
> Sent: 15 December 2015 07:17
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> To: Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au>
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] clientconfig.cfg not getting updated
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> Yep, did this but forgot to include it in the list of things tried.
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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au>
> wrote:
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> Might be this <servers>xxx.xx.106.11 xxx.xx.176.11</servers>  then
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> I know you can have more than 1 server here but I don’t know the syntax just
> double check this, maybe try with just a single server listed here.
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> Regards,
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> Brandon.
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> From: Colin Coe [mailto:colin.coe at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 6:04 PM
> To: Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au>
>
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> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] clientconfig.cfg not getting updated
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> OK, by adding heaps of debug "WriteLog"s, I believe I've found the problem.
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> Version 2.04 of the script.
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> 2474 function XymonClientConfig($cfglines)
> 2475 {
> 2476     if ($cfglines -eq $null -or $cfglines -eq "") { return }
> 2477         WriteLog "DEBUG - " + $cfglines
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> The above prints "DEBUG - " and nothing more, which tells me that it is not
> successfully talking to the server.
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> The XymonSend function worked though...
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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> HI Brandon
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> 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.
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> Doing the XymonSend resulted in the whole file being downloaded being
> downloaded from the Xymon server.
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> I've done the Windows equiv of chmod 777 on the client-local.cfg to
> run out permission problems.
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> It looks
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> 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.
>>
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>> 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
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>> 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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