[Xymon] Xymon script question

[Scot Kreienkamp]

Hi Jaap,

The best way I've found to run them in debug mode is to simply run them by hand and put an echo statement in front of the xymon command in the script, so that the script and all data is sent to stdout.  That lets you see exactly what it's sending to the xymon server.  You will need to run it with xymoncmd to ensure the environment variables are set correctly, like so: xymoncmd ./$YOURTESTNAMEHERE.

I've never run scripts in the client instance on the xymon server itself, I've always run them in the server instance and they've worked exactly like on a client.  I think the client is called differently on a xymon server and may not process the ext scripts the same as on a non-server instance of xymon.  Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong.

I am also interested in your script as I was thinking about something similar. I would appreciate it if you would share your script with me, you may send it to me off-list if you wish.

Thanks!




Scot Kreienkamp  | Senior Systems Engineer | La-Z-Boy Corporate
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-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jaap Winius
Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 8:53 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon script question

Hi folks,

My network has about a dozen Xymon clients and one Xymon server, all
running Debian stretch. Yesterday I wrote my first Xymon script for it
(using the example on the 'Xymon Tips and Tricks' page), which checks
if the host it runs on needs a reboot in case the kernel has been
updated. This script runs fine on all of the clients (a new column for
it was automatically added to the 'Current Status' overview), but not
on the server where it is apparently being ignored. There is, of
course, also a Xymon client installed on the server and up until now
it always seemed to work the same as all the other clients.

So, do Xymon client scripts that are run on the server need to be
different, or does something else need to be done before they will
work there?

Also, how can I best go about troubleshooting custom Xymon scripts?
For example, is there a way to run them manually in debug mode?

Thanks,

Jaap
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