[Xymon] Troubleshooting XymonPS

[Steve B]

Hi John,

no - nothing. I had actually tested this out by removing the host from
bb-hosts and then it did appear in the ghost client list.

rgds

S

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:57 PM, <john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com> wrote:

>  Dumb question #1 – is there anything showing up in the ghost client list?
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> Thanks,
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> John
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> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve B
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:14 PM
> *To:* Xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Troubleshooting XymonPS
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> Hi all,
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> I'm possibly going to make a fool out of myself here but thought I would
> pose the question any way.
>
> Thanks to all involved in making the PS client, seems like it's going to
> be a great tool for me but I need to work out what I am doing wrong.
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> I have installed Xymonclient.ps1 on my server (windows server 2012) in
> c:\program files\xymon.
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>  Directory of C:\Program Files\Xymon
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> 18-03-15  17:09    <DIR>          .
> 18-03-15  17:09    <DIR>          ..
> 18-03-15  10:09    <DIR>          logs
> 18-03-15  07:49           331.264 nssm.exe
> 18-03-15  15:09           107.232 xymonclient.ps1
> 18-03-15  15:30               380 xymonclient_config.xml
> 18-03-15  07:49           396.800 XymonPSClient.exe
> 18-03-15  07:50             1.841 xymonsend.ps1
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> I have a service running called XymonPSClient.
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> I have log files saying data is being collected and data has been sent:
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> end of log file here:
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> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  Main and optional tests finished.
> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  Sending to server
> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  Connecting to host (ip of my server)
> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  Sent 49192 bytes to server
> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  Received 0 bytes from server
> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  Executing RepeatTests
> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  RepeatTests finished
> 2015-03-18 17:50:52  Delaying until next run: 295.7656229 seconds
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> But when I check Xymon, no client data is actually being received, no
> columns are appearing for the host I defined in bb-hosts. I did a
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> ./bb localhost "hobbitdboard host=(my host name)"
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> and there is no client information there other than  trends/info/conn
> which is fetched by the Xymon server.
>
> Couple of points:
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> - There are no registry entries for XymonPSClient at the locations listed
> in the readme
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> - I am using an older version of Xymon (hobbit) which works fine with
> bbwin.
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> - telnet to hobbit server using port 1984 - all ok.
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> - xymon-lastcollect.txt has all the information inside that I expect.
>
> XymonSettings as follows:
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> [XymonConfig]
> XymonSettings
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> serversList                     :  (my xymon server)
> wanteddisksList                 : {3}
> clientname                      : (my client host name)
> clientbbwinmembug               : 1
> clientsoftware                  : powershell
> loopinterval                    : 300
> maxlogage                       : 60
> MaxEvents                       : 5000
> slowscanrate                    : 72
> reportevt                       : 1
> EnableWin32_Product             : 0
> EnableWin32_QuickFixEngineering : 0
> EnableWMISections               : 0
> ClientProcessPriority           : Normal
> clientlogpath                   : c:\program files\xymon\logs
> clientlogretain                 : 0
> servergiflocation               : /xymon/gifs/
> servers                         : (my xymon server)
> clientlogfile                   : c:\program
> files\xymon\logs\xymonclient.log
> clientconfigfile                : c:\program files\xymon\clientconfig.cfg
> clientfqdn                      : 1
> clientlower                     : 1
> clientremotecfgexec             : 1
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> note:
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> clientconfigfile                : c:\program files\xymon\clientconfig.cfg
> this file doesn't exist
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> Any ideas?
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> Many thanks, sorry for long message but wanted to include as much info as
> possible.
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