[Xymon] XymonD --merge-clientlocal issues

[Timothy Williams]

I meant the machine/OS, as some settings are kept in memory and I didn't
know (I'm a Windows guy) if restarting the Xymon application by xymonlaunch
-restart would have refreshed the memory settings.

However, the Linux manager looked at it and found the issue as missing a
slash / at the end of the previous parameter to wrap the line. It never saw
the new parameter.
It's now working as designed.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:49 PM Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com> wrote:

> By "whole server" I assume you just mean restarting the xymon server (app,
> not machine)?  I usually restart the server but that's because I'm
> impatient and want immediate gratification for those types of changes.  As
> far as I recall, that shouldn't be required.  It also shouldn't hurt to do
> so since it restarts fairly quickly (at least for my small environment).
>
> =G=
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:29 PM Timothy Williams <tlwilliams4 at vcu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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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