[Xymon] Configure remote client to be monitored by xymon

[Jeremy Laidman]

Excellent!

On 27 Jul. 2017 00:49, "Zain Syed" <zain1723 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>> 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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