[Xymon] WinPSClient - Client can't get local server name

[Timothy Williams]

In the 'xymonclient_config.xml' file have the server name as first entry.
This is on the server.

<XymonSettings>
  <clientname>someserver</clientname>
  <servers>xymonserver name or IP</servers>
...
</XymonSettings>

Tim Williams





On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:13 AM Scot Kreienkamp <
Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> I have one Win2008 32 bit server that I’m trying to install the
> WinPSClient on.  When I try to install it I get this:
>
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>
> C:\Program Files\xymon>powershell.exe ./xymonclient.ps1 install
>
> You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
>
> At C:\Program Files\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:934 char:81
>
> +         if ($script:XymonSettings.clientlower -eq 1) { $clname =
> $clname.ToLower <<<< () }
>
>     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (ToLower:String) [],
> RuntimeException
>
>     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull
>
>
>
> Service "XymonPSClient" installed successfully!
>
>
>
>
>
> So I set clientfqdn and clientlower to 0 which eliminated the errors but
> the Xymon server never shows any information or ghost clients with the
> server name.  To start troubleshooting I looked at the data file produced
> by the client and found the server name is missing from the first line
> produced by the client:
>
>
>
> client .powershell powershell XymonPS
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>
>
>
>
> It looks like I could define it in the script, but every time the client
> is updated by the Xymon server it will get overwritten as it doesn’t look
> like there’s a way to define it in the config file.
>
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  I’m not a Windows scripter.
>
>
>
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