[Xymon] XymonD --merge-clientlocal issues

[Galen Johnson]

>From the client-local.cfg man page:





*FILE FORMATThe  file is divided into sections, delimited by "[name]"
lines.  A section name can be either an operating system identifier -
linux, solaris, hp-ux, aix, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, darwin - a class, or
a hostname. When deciding which section to send to a client, Xymon will
first  look for  a section named after the hostname of the client; if such
a section does not exist, it will look for a section named by the operating
system of the client. So you can configure special configurations for
individual hosts, and have a default configuration for all other hosts of a
certain type.It will often be practical to use regular expressions for
hostnames.  To do this you must use*


*           [host=<expression>]*






*where <expression> is a Perl-compatible regular expression. The same kind
of matching can be done on operating system or host class, using
[os=<expresssion>]           [class=<expression>]Apart from the section
delimiter, the file format is free-form, or rather it is defined by the
tools that make use of the configuration.*


I just went through this recently so it was fresh in my mind :-).

=G=

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:50 PM Thomas Eckert <thomas.eckert at it-eckert.de>
wrote:

> That's what works for me. I remember that the correct syntax, in
> particular with regexes, is slightly different across the config files.
>
> On Oct 16, 2018 19:39, Timothy Williams <tlwilliams4 at vcu.edu> wrote:
>
> Yes, that's right about tasks.cfg. It had other start parameters, and have
> added the merge.
>
> Do you think that it needs [host=server1] rather than just [server1]?
>
> Tim
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:30 PM Thomas Eckert <thomas.eckert at it-eckert.de>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> for future readers: There is an error in the man page
> `xymond(8)`: `--merge-clientconfig` in `xymond(8)` is **wrong**. The option
> `--merge-clientlocal` documented in `client-local.cfg(5)` is correct.
> You added this in `tasks.cfg` to the launch of `xymond`, right?
>
> I have this running successfully in a Linux-environment with host-specific
> (`[host=%www.*]`) and class (`[linux]`)-sections and the sections merge
> fine.
>
> Cheers
> Thomas
>
> On 16 Oct 2018, at 17:40, Timothy Williams <tlwilliams4 at vcu.edu> wrote:
>
> We have set up a new 4.3.28 xymon server, and will be migrating hosts to
> it in the next few weeks. On it I would like to start to use the
> --merge-clientlocal command. In testing, Windows powershell clients pick up
> either the individual host section OR the powershell section, it does not
> merge. Are there subtleties not in the man-pages that people have found to
> get it to work? (note that the xymond man-page states to use
> --merge-clientconfig, but that doesn't work either)
>
> Could it be the section/host headings, or order? I have:
>
> [server1]
> file:somefile
>
> [server2]
> file:different file
>
> [os=powershell] (also tried [class=powershell] and [powershell] alone)
> xymonlogsend
> clientversion:2.28:http://url
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Williams
>
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