[Xymon] Simple Ping Test from a node/server

[Patrick Nixon]

Thanks for the all the responses and especially Henrik!    As usual, he
connected all the pieces that were in my head and made a simple solution.

Have a great week!

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If the PI can connect back to your Xymon server, then the easiest solution
> would be to install the "xymonnet" utility on the PI, configure it to run a
> limited set of network tests, and send the status messages back to the
> Xymon server.
>
> If you use pre-packaged installations of Xymon, then you would install the
> "server" package on the PI, but disable everything in tasks.cfg except the
> client and xymonnet tasks (note that by default the xymonnet task has a
> dependency on xymond - you need to remove this when disabling xymond).
>
> The key configuration items are:
>
>    1. Configure xymonserver.cfg on the PI with the IP of the normal Xymon
>    server in XYMSRV setting, so all status messages go to the normal Xymon
>    server
>    2. Use the "NET" tag in hosts.cfg (on the normal Xymon server) to
>    distinguish network tests which run on the PI from those running on your
>    normal Xymon server. You can either add a "NET:primary" and "NET:backup" to
>    all of the network tests, or use the "--test-untagged" option with xymonnet
>    on the normal server and only add a "NET:backup" for the tests which should
>    run on the PI.
>    3. Configure XYMONNETWORK=backup in xymonserver.cfg on the PI so it
>    will run the network tests tagged with "NET:backup" (if you put a
>    "NET:primary" on the normal tests, then of course also add a
>    XYMONNETWORK=primary setting on the primary server).
>    4. Run Xymon on the PI.
>
> That should work. In the "old days", you would have to somehow get the
> hosts.cfg file across from the normal Xymon server to the PI (or have
> separate hosts.cfg files on each), but these days xymonnet will fetch
> hosts.cfg from the normal server instead of reading a local copy, so it
> should work and you only have to maintain the normal hosts.cfg file.
>
> You can run a test on the PI to see what network tests it will perform -
> "xymoncmd xymonnet --no-update" will run the tests without sending any data
> to the server, so you can verify that the PI only runs the tests you intend
> it to.
>
> The xymon.com installation has this setup, since xymon.com is hosted on a
> public server in Germany (at Hetzner), and my home network is behind a
> firewall but uses xymon.com to collect data from the home network. So you
> can look at the configuration files on xymon.com and see how I have a
> "NET:hetzner" and "NET:home" setting.
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
> On 09-02-2017 20:21, Patrick Nixon wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>   I want to monitor my backup internet connection (simple ping test
> outbound is fine).   I'm going to throw a raspberry pi with dual interfaces
> on the network, one on the main network and one on the backup internet
> connection.
>
>  What's the best way to implement a ping test from the PI and have it be
> part of the main server display?
>  Solutions I've considered so far:
>  - set up the PI as a xymon server and figure out how to get the test
> results to go back to the main server.
>  - setup the PI as a xymon client and write some sort of ping test that
> does the work
>  - something else I missed?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
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