[Xymon] XymonD --merge-clientlocal issues

[Timothy Williams]

The [name] section lines are working OK; I am not trying to use regex, just
specific hosts to merge with [powershell] defaults.

We are testing by restarting the xymon services, any off chance it needs a
whole server reboot?


On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:21 PM Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com> wrote:

> From the client-local.cfg man page:
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> *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*
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> *           [host=<expression>]*
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> *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.*
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> I just went through this recently so it was fresh in my mind :-).
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> =G=
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> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:50 PM Thomas Eckert <thomas.eckert at it-eckert.de>
> wrote:
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>> That's what works for me. I remember that the correct syntax, in
>> particular with regexes, is slightly different across the config files.
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>> On Oct 16, 2018 19:39, Timothy Williams <tlwilliams4 at vcu.edu> wrote:
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>> Yes, that's right about tasks.cfg. It had other start parameters, and
>> have added the merge.
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>> Do you think that it needs [host=server1] rather than just [server1]?
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>> Tim
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>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:30 PM Thomas Eckert <thomas.eckert at it-eckert.de>
>> wrote:
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>> Hi Tim,
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>> 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?
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>> I have this running successfully in a Linux-environment with
>> host-specific (`[host=%www.*]`) and class (`[linux]`)-sections and the
>> sections merge fine.
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>> Cheers
>> Thomas
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>> On 16 Oct 2018, at 17:40, Timothy Williams <tlwilliams4 at vcu.edu> wrote:
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>> 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)
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>> Could it be the section/host headings, or order? I have:
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>> [server1]
>> file:somefile
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>> [server2]
>> file:different file
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>> [os=powershell] (also tried [class=powershell] and [powershell] alone)
>> xymonlogsend
>> clientversion:2.28:http://url
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>> Thanks,
>> Tim Williams
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