[Xymon] Configure remote client to be monitored by xymon

[Zain Syed]

Thanks all!
Jeremy, thanks for narrowing down the issue. I had to give the fqdn and it
is being monitored by xymon now.

Thanks
Zain

On Wednesday, July 26, 2017, Zain Syed <zain1723 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes i do see these host under ghost report. Could tou tell me how to clear
> these out ?
>
>
> Thanks
> Zain
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 25, 2017, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au');>> wrote:
>
>> Look at the Ghost report on the Xymon server to see if it recognises the
>> client hostname, and adjust on either end if required.
>>
>> Look at the logfiles clientlaunch.log and xymonclient.log to see if
>> anything weird is showing up.
>>
>> On the client, see what happens when you run this (replace xymoncmd if
>> it's somewhere else):
>>
>> echo '$XYMON $XYMSRV ping' | ~xymon/client/bin/xymoncmd
>>
>> and if that works, try this:
>>
>> echo '$XYMON $XYMSRV "config hosts.cfg"' | ~xymon/client/bin/xymoncmd
>>
>> and then this:
>>
>> echo '$XYMON $XYMSRV "client/test $MACHINEDOTS."' |
>> ~xymon/client/bin/xymoncmd
>>
>> and maybe this:
>>
>> echo '$XYMON $XYMSRV ghostlist' | ~xymon/client/bin/xymoncmd
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> On 26 July 2017 at 06:14, Zain Syed <zain1723 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So I found that on my client machine under /home/xymon/client/etc
>>> (xymonclient.cfg) had a differnent IP for xymon server. So I have replaced
>>> it and restarted xymon. But this doesn't seem to work as well.
>>>
>>> Zain
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2017-07-25 2:11 pm, Zain Syed wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Can anyone please let me know how to configure my remote machine to be
>>>> monitored by xymon? I Currently only ssh and conn are working but other
>>>> services are not getting monitored. Please advise.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zain,
>>>>
>>>> Depending on which Linux distro the remote client is running, the info
>>>> could be different.
>>>>
>>>> RHEL/CentOS: /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client - Update the "XYMONSERVERS"
>>>> variable with your xymon server's FQDN.
>>>> Debian/Ubuntu: look for xymonclient.cfg (mine's in
>>>> ~xymon/client/etc) and change the "XYMSRV" variable with your xymon
>>>> server's FQDN.
>>>>
>>>> Other systems distributions, I couldn't tell you.
>>>> --
>>>> Mike Burger
>>>> http://www.bubbanfriends.org
>>>>
>>>> "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever
>>>> just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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