[Xymon] xymon client - prevent monitoring of test

[Poppy, Ben]

For anyone else that may have run into this, here’s the solution. When you use APT to install the hobbit package, it does a full install. So in the /usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.d folder, are a bunch of .cfg files. This is where the DISABLED was commented out on all those extra alerting packages. I uncommented, restarted hobbit, and deleted the tests from my main xymon servers. Then all was right again.

Thanks for the help Jeremy!

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Poppy, Ben
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 5:49 PM
To: Jeremy Laidman
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon client - prevent monitoring of test

Correct, they aren’t standard columns as far as Xymon is concerned. I think they just used the debian xymon package and installed everything. Thanks for the hint, I was looking to do the disabled from the xymon server central side, I didn’t think about on the client side itself..

From: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 8:48 PM
To: Poppy, Ben
Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon client - prevent monitoring of test

On 8 May 2015 at 00:39, Poppy, Ben <ben.poppy at mcis.com<mailto:ben.poppy at mcis.com>> wrote:
We recently installed the client onto a debian system, and it is sending back alerts on apt and libs. I've been searching for how to prevent these from even alerting, but haven't been able to. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to prevent the client from even monitoring those 2 columns?

I don't think these are standard columns.  I suspect you have an ext script that's reporting on those.
Google tells me that these are both part of the hobbit-plugins package.  If so, you can disable certain tests by editing the relevant launch files in hobbitlaunch.d or equivalent Xymon directory.  Or the relevant section in etc/clientlaunch.cfg.  Add "DISABLED" or change "ENABLED" to "DISABLED" to ... well, disable.

J
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