[Xymon] No Interface graphs for hosts on CentOS 7..

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Thu, March 12, 2015 11:43 pm, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> On 13 March 2015 at 13:08, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
>
>> A bigger issue is that in the fancy new late-Fedora/EL7 world,
>> "ifconfig"
>> is deprecated (actually, it's apparently been deprecated for like a
>> decade
>> in favor of 'ip', but I don't know anyone who doesn't use it) thanks to
>> the move away from SysV initscripts and is no longer installed by
>> default.
>>
>
> Ah, that makes sense.  Well given that it's deprecated, I suppose the
> Xymon
> client script and server-side parser should probably have been adjusted to
> cope with this, sometime in the last decade.
>
> On the client, we could perhaps use "netstat -ibn" (like on BSD-based
> systems, and HPUX) and use the existing parsing code on the server.  If we
> use "ip -s" then we'll need new parsing code on the server side.
>
> The FREEBSD parsing on the server first looks for the V8 format then falls
> back to the original format if it doesn't match.  The Linux parsing could
> do the same, so if the Linux parsing string fails to match, look again
> using a suitable *BSD parsing string.
>
> Then on the client side script, it'd be something like:
>
> [ -x /bin/ifconfig ] && /sbin/ifconfig || netstat -ibn
>


Agreed, some logic along these lines is probably going to be necessary. I
do wonder how stable 'ip's output has been over time too.


Regards,

-jc