[Xymon] Xymond Multi-source statuses

[Root, Paul T]

What processes do you have running owned by xymon?

What is in your tasks.cfg file?

From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of Rich Jones
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 7:23 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymond Multi-source statuses

No, if I ever need to restart the server I manually start the server with the following:
sudo su xymon
/usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh start

Checking top only shows one instance of the xymond_client

I have just found the following in the server client xymonclient.cfg, though I don't think that helps much
XYMSRV="**.***.226.227"
XYMSERVERS=""

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On 11 May 2018 at 13:16, Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at centurylink.com<mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
The xymon server starts the xymon client on that machine.

Do you possibly start xymonclient separately as well?

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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 6:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymond Multi-source statuses

That makes a lot of sense indeed,
Checking xymonserver.cfg however seems to be correct:
XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME="my.xymon.url"
XYMONSERVERIP="**.***.226.227"
XYMONSERVEROS="linux"
XYMSRV="$XYMONSERVERIP"

I don't actually see XYMSERVERS in the xymonserver.cfg though


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On 11 May 2018 at 00:57, Jeremy Laidman <jeremy at laidman.org<mailto:jeremy at laidman.org>> wrote:
On 9 May 2018 at 02:14, Rich Jones <rich at corporationpop.co.uk<mailto:rich at corporationpop.co.uk>> wrote:
Hi all,

Another one of those things I keep meaning to ask but keep on forgetting...
I'm seeing under the xymond column the following:
Multi-source statuses
  xymon.url.com:cpu reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:disk reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:files reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:inode reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:memory reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:msgs reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:ports reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:procs reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
  xymon.url.com<http://xymon.url.com>:uptime reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227

Looking through the archive it makes sense, Xymon is receiving data from two sources, which I guess it is, however the two IPs are localhost and the server IP address.

I'm guessing this is likely to do with how the things are setup on the server rather than Xymon itself (eg in /etc/hosts)?

Can someone point me in the right direction to resolve this? I'm running Xymon 4.3.28

It appears that the Xymon server is reporting to itself twice, using its network IP address and the loopback address. The Xymon client that generates the client data messages (from where these metrics come) will use the $XYMSRV environment variable, and send to whatever IP address is defined therein. Sometimes this is set to "0.0.0.0" which tells the Xymon client to look at $XYMSERVERS as a list of multiple destinations. I suspect you have XYMSERVERS="127.0.0.1 xx.xxx.226.227". On a Xymon server these variables are is set in xymonserver.cfg.

J


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