[Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

[Scot Kreienkamp]

With the latest version I get "Property 'serversList' cannot be found on this object;".  If I change servers to serversList it seems to work ok.

If it really did change to serversList you should update the doc or everyone that tries to install it will be emailing you.  :)

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of zak.beck at accenture.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 6:00 AM
To: g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au; xymon-developer at lists.sourceforge.net; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

Hi

Thanks for the bug report - I've committed a patch which should fix the multiple servers issue, please try it.

There should be a single <servers> element in your config, containing the list of servers, space delimited:

<servers>server1.domain.com server2.domain.com</servers>

Re: mountpoints, if you add this to your XML config, you will get mountpoints.

  <wanteddisks>3 4</wanteddisks>

By default, wanteddisks = 3 - possible settings below, and you can combine settings with spaces:

2=USB
3=Local disks
4=Network shares
5=CD

But you will need the latest patch with the config fix for this to work properly.

Regards,
Zak

From: Gavin Stone-Tolcher [mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au]
Sent: 17 February 2015 00:09
To: Beck, Zak; xymon-developer at lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xymon-developer at lists.sourceforge.net>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: Xymon Powershell Windows client

Just a quick FYI:

I was just trying a test install on a 32bit windows 7 client and got this:

Cannot set "servers" because only strings can be used as values to set XmlNode p
At C:\Program Files\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:644 char:26
+             $script:XymonSettings. <<<< servers = $script:XymonSettings.server
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyAssignmentException

I had multiple IP in the <servers> etry in the config.
Changing the <servers> entry in xymonclient_config.xml to have a single entry rather than multiple whitespace entries allows the client to install with no error.

After installation adding a second IP to <servers> entry also does not seem to work with it just reporting to the first entry?

Also just another quick one, I have a mountpoint defined on this system that does not seem to be collected. Are mountpoints supported?
I re-ran the bbwin client on the same system and the mountpoint is detected and displayed.


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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of zak.beck at accenture.com<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com>
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2015 7:53 PM
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Subject: [Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

Hi all,

Today I have uploaded a new version of the Xymon Powershell client to SVN (in sandbox/WinPSClient). We (Accenture) are very pleased to be contributing these changes to the open source community. I've been working on this now for around 8 months on and off and hopefully the changes made will be of benefit to everyone!

Whilst making changes, we have focussed mainly on making it work, improving reliability and most importantly improving performance.

In most cases, on our 64 bit OS virtual machines, a data collection now takes around 5 seconds. On heavily loaded (CPU load or event log load) servers, the script is now considerably faster than originally. Key to this has been reducing the amount of WMI usage as this was a major culprit.

We have also implemented some new features, largely based on our in-house requirements but hopefully useful to others:

*         Showing the process owner and command line in [procs]. This has been implemented using c# code, compiled at runtime.
*         Adding Active Directory replication test, Terminal Services sessions test
*         Ability to restart any stopped Windows service
*         Client self-update
*         Dirsize and dirtime checks (which were originally external scripts)

Some things have changed slightly; for example, the local configuration which was registry-based is now XML-based (you can still use registry settings if you prefer).  In the SVN repository I have also uploaded a Word document which describes how to install and the configuration options.

I have uploaded all the revisions we have made to SVN so there is a history of development. Whilst we will endeavour to continue contributing changes and improvements in coming months, this is an open source project and as such we are not offering any formal support. If anyone wishes to bugfix, branch or whatever, please do so!
Zak Beck
Accenture



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