[Xymon] Client uptime status is failing

[SebA]

I've never seen that before - have you added uptime to hosts.cfg?  If so,
remove it!  (It looks like the Xymon server is testing a network service
here, and uptime is not a network service!)

Kind regards,

SebA



On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 16:10, Devvkanth Krishnamurthy <
Devvkanth.K at infosys.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> Do you mind giving any suggestions on why only the Xymon server uptime is
> reporting correctly whereas the client says that service is unavailable.
> Not sure what I am missing here.
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Devvkanth K
>
> Unix SME
>
>
>
> *From:* Devvkanth Krishnamurthy
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:45 PM
> *To:* SebA <spah at syntec.co.uk>
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* RE: [Xymon] Client uptime status is failing
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have Xymon version – 4.3.28 for both server and clients.
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Devvkanth K
>
> Unix SME
>
>
>
> *From:* SebA <spah at syntec.co.uk>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 29, 2019 5:17 PM
> *To:* Devvkanth Krishnamurthy <Devvkanth.K at infosys.com>
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Client uptime status is failing
>
>
>
> This may be down to what your clients are reporting.  What client
> version(s) are you talking about here?
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> SebA
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 11:06, Devvkanth Krishnamurthy <
> Devvkanth.K at infosys.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble w.r.t to uptime status generation in clients. The
> server is displaying uptime correctly since xymond fetches the data,
> whereas for the clients it does not fetch the uptime data. However it
> populates all other columns. Can you please suggest if I am missing
> anything here.
>
>
>
> *Situation* :
>
>
>
> Xymon server  and Xymon clients are  configured. The table is populated
> with colors and data being generated except for uptime in clients whereas
> the server is reporting uptime correctly. This is probably because of
> xymond daemon. The status message also indicated service not available
> which indicates xymond service.  So how can we get the Xymon clients to
> update the uptime.
>
>
>
> *Tasks.cfg file :*
>
>
>
> # The client back-end module. You need this if you are running the Xymon
> client on any system.
>
> [clientdata]
>
>         ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>
>         NEEDS xymond
>
>         CMD xymond_channel --channel=client
> --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/clientdata.log xymond_client --uptime-status
>
>
>
> *Status message :*
>
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>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Devvkanth K
>
> Unix SME
>
>
>
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