[Xymon] Windows Powershell client v2.15

[Sven De Vilder]

Okay, great. I didn't think about the self-update mechanism. It seems to 
be possible to update the description without reregistering the service.

Thanks,

Sven


zak.beck at accenture.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yes, I can look at that - however, I'm not sure about adding the version as
> the client can self-update. I'll see if there's a way to update the version
> at the same time.
>
> Cheers
>
> Zak
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven De Vilder [mailto:s.devilder at umcutrecht.nl]
> Sent: 03 May 2016 16:16
> To: Beck, Zak<zak.beck at accenture.com>
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows Powershell client v2.15
>
> Hello Zak,
>
> Thanks for this excellent script. I haven't tested the externals function
> yet, but I will soon. And maybe then I'll finally be able to remove BBwin
> everywhere...
>
> Is it possible to add this line (or something similar) to the
> XymonClientInstall section :
>
>       &  "$xymondir\nssm.exe" set `"$xymonsvcname`" Description
> `"XymonPSClient Version $Version`"
>
> This way the service will have a description with the version in it (instead
> of nothing). This will benefit me greatly in deploying the client. I've
> tested it on one of my servers and it seems to be working as expected.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Sven De Vilder
>
> zak.beck at accenture.com wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have today committed v2.15. This has a big, new feature that we've
>> been working on internally for some time and testing in our
>> environment, that is, external scripts and external data.
>>
>> As far as is possible, I have replicated the BBWin functionality for
>> external data. Data files in the 'externaldatalocation' directory
>> (installdir\tmp by default) with the correct file format will be
>> uploaded to Xymon. You can therefore run external scripts, have them
>> produce status data files in the correct format and that will be
>> uploaded. The format is the same as BBWin and that described in 'Xymon
>> Message Syntax' on this page:
>> http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html.
>> The sample scripts supplied with BBWin, e.g. fsmon.vbs, should work
>> without material changes (fsmon for example looks in the registry for
>> a couple of locations of folders, this may need changing if you have
>> never installed BBWin).
>>
>> You can now also specify external scripts in client-local.cfg to be
>> run either every scan or every "slow" scan, and they can be sent to
>> run synchronously or asynchronously - therefore a relatively simple
>> external script scheduler. The scripts can either pre-exist on the
>> target or they can be downloaded from a central web server or file
>> share (like client updates). Script versioning is controlled via
>> hashes - this has also been extended to client updates (optionally).
>>
>> Obviously the use of external scripts requires some care - for
>> example, if you specify synchronous execution and your script never
>> completes, XymonPSClient will be left waiting forever. If you specify
>> asynchronous and your script never completes, you can end up with
>> multiple processes building up over time. It's quite difficult to work
>> out what may be happening with external scripts if you do not have any
>> form of logging in your script, just as it would be with BBWin -
>> therefore if you're having trouble, I recommend logging to file at
>> various points in your script and the start and end of execution.
>>
>> Note that external scripts will be run as the same user as
>> XymonPSClient, which would usually be the LOCAL SYSTEM user. You can
>> test whether your script works as LOCAL SYSTEM interactively using
>> psexec (e.g. psexec -i -s cmd.exe), from the sysinternals process
>> utilities (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/psexec).
>>
>> I have updated the XymonPSClient.doc which has a section on external
>> scripts and data - please read this carefully first as there are a
>> number of options associated with these new features. I will try and
>> answer any questions about scheduling and external data configuration,
>> but I can't commit to answering questions about or debugging your
>> individual scripts.
>>
>> Zak
>>
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