[Xymon] [EXCH Prio5]R: [EXCH Prio5]Re: linux client disk warning levels

[Richard Hamilton]

That got it; I didn't have startup=automatic as part of that entry.

Granted it's fairly pointless, but it serves both as a test of that
functionality, and as something so the column is green rather than clear.
:-)  I don't think I have any other extra services of interest on there
(notwithstanding stuff like Google Update Service).


On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Brandon Dale <BDale at kitchengroup.com.au>
wrote:

> I would assume it’s just  putting this into the analysis.cfg file for the
> host you want to monitor:
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> SVC XymonPSClient status=started startup=automatic
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> However… not sure that will do anything useful? If the service stops it
> will never send the data to the xymon server  so the alert would never
> trigger, not for the status anyway. As long as you have alerting setup for
> stuff going purple then you should be fine.
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> Regards,
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> *Brandon *
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> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Richard
> Hamilton
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 1 February 2017 11:27 AM
> *To:* Alessandro Tinivelli <Alessandro.Tinivelli at faacgroup.com>
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] [EXCH Prio5]R: [EXCH Prio5]Re: linux client disk
> warning levels
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> For those wishing to switch, here's my notes on uninstalling BBWin, since
> I didn't find any.  All this assumes one is using the Administrator
> account, or at least an account with Administrator privileges.  Also, if
> you use zip somewhere else to package up the WinPSClient files, do NOT use
> cygwin's unzip to extract them; it will get some Windows permissions wrong,
> and nssm (if not more) won't work properly.  Aside from that, I haven't
> figured out how to use the svcs test to detect that the XymonPSClient
> service is running; maybe I can change it to check for nssm, or have procs
> check for nssm.  But otherwise, WinPSClient seems to be working as well or
> better as BBWin did on Windows 8, at least on the Windows 10.1 VM on my Mac
> laptop.
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> To remove BBWin:
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> Stop the BBWin service (may be named Big Brother Xymon Client) using the
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> usual service management GUI.
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> Remove the service; from command line: sc delete BBWin
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> Once that's done, some quick regedit searches seem to show no leftovers in
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> the registry.
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> Remove the software; from the command line: rd/s "Program Files
> (x86)\BBWin"
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> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Alessandro Tinivelli <
> Alessandro.Tinivelli at faacgroup.com> wrote:
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> Hi Kris,
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> believe me, it’s always better to write settings on server side instead of
> client side.
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> And, for windows clients, I strongly suggest you to switch to the Zak’s
> great powershell client, you can get out from svn
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> "svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/xymon/code/sandbox/WinPSClient  ."
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> This behaves more like a linux client, and that’s cool
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> Alessandro
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> *Da:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *Per conto di *Kris Springer
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> Understood about the server doing the deciphering of the client data.
> Strange that the Windows clients are easily adjusted on the client end.
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> I don't have an analysis.d folder.  I think I'll just add the custom
> levels into the analysis.cfg file and see what happens.
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