[Xymon] Windows PS xymonclient
Kris Springer
kspringer at innovateteam.com
Wed Feb 20 22:33:32 CET 2019
I recall having purple issues when I moved from BBwin to the PSclient.
I upped our acceptable size to 1024 and haven't had issues since.
Kris Springer
On 2/20/19 2:23 PM, Timothy Williams wrote:
> On the problem machines, check the xymonclient.log file on the server,
> or in console if you load it up. Check the size of the data file. We
> had to go to 1024.
>
> 2019-02-20 16:16:58 Sending to server
> 2019-02-20 16:16:58 Using ASCII encoding
> 2019-02-20 16:16:59 Connecting to host
> 2019-02-20 16:16:59 Sent 101438 bytes to server
> 2019-02-20 16:17:00 Received 436 bytes from server
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 4:18 PM Root, Paul T
> <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks.I was on github, it’s only up to 2.34.
>
> So I upped my MAXMSG_DATA, and MAXMSG_STATUS to 768. It was 648.
> That cleared up the cisco ASA through devmon. But didn’t help
> here. So my xymond test for the server is now green.
>
> A 3^rd machine dropped to red, but came green again, about the
> time I increased the message sizes. So maybe that’s something.
>
> Dropping down to 2.28 didn’t help. Ports is still empty. As is who.
>
> I’ll give 2.37 a try.
>
> *From:*Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com
> <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2019 2:40 PM
> *To:* Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Windows PS xymonclient
>
> Here's the download location of the latest XymonPSclient.
> https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/
>
>
> Kris Springer
>
> On 2/20/19 11:55 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
>
> Nope, 2.34. That was what was on github, or where ever it was
> that I got it.
>
> I’m not a developer, and don’t really get how to use git. I
> poked and prodded until I got the file.
>
> I’ll try to find 2.28 and try it on those 2 machines.
>
> *From:* SebA <spah at syntec.co.uk> <mailto:spah at syntec.co.uk>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:10 PM
> *To:* Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
> <mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
> *Cc:* Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com>
> <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>; xymon at xymon.com
> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Windows PS xymonclient
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Do you mean v2.37 (that's the latest)? If so, I had the same
> issue on one of our servers. Downgrading to v2.28 fixed it,
> restarting the new version fixed it multiple times for just
> the 1st cycle, I got it working in a powershell admin prompt
> (running for at least an hour), then closed it and restarted
> the service on the new version, and it's been fine since
> then! I'm not touching it now! ;-)
>
> Clutching at straws a little bit, but I wonder if it might be
> related to not much memory being available. On the first run,
> it's using less memory so it works... (We have a process
> hogging almost all the RAM on that server.)
>
> BTW, the empty sections I was getting are:
>
> [netstat]
> [ports]
> [ipconfig]
> [route]
>
> Kind regards,
>
> SebA
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 18:06, Root, Paul T
> <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Old version was 2.19, not 2.18.
>
> I put it back in on one of the machines and ports and who
> are back to normal.
>
> *From:* Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com
> <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>> *On Behalf Of *Root, Paul T
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:03 PM
> *To:* 'Kris Springer' <kspringer at innovateteam.com
> <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>>; xymon at xymon.com
> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Windows PS xymonclient
>
> Thanks Kris,
>
> No, these are all 2008R2 servers. Both
> ports and who worked with the 2.18 version, that I was using.
>
> Paul.
>
> *From:* Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com
> <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:01 PM
> *To:* Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com
> <mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>>; xymon at xymon.com
> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Windows PS xymonclient
>
> Not sure if it's your issue or not, but I've found that
> 'who' is blank for Windows Home editions. Only Pro
> editions or Servers shows me 'who' output. Also, Windows
> Home editions don't have RDP, so it wouldn't be there
> anyway. Also, I've seen these sorts of issues on my
> servers before, and a reboot usually fixes it.
>
> Kris Springer
>
> On 2/20/19 10:47 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
>
> So I only have 6 windows servers that I’m concerned
> with in my xymon installation.
>
> Today, I decided to upgrade the service. So I
> downloaded the v2.34 ps1 file. And I copied the file
> in place and restarted via the services window.
>
> This worked just fine on 4 machines. But on 2
> machines, I get the ports test gone red because I’m
> looking for RDP, but I’m getting no output at all.
> Going into who, it is also blank.
>
> Processes and SVCS are both fine.
>
> So next I started the powershell as an administrator,
> and did the ‘Set-ExecutablePolicy RemoteSigned” and
> then did a .\xymonclient.ps1 install. Then a stop and
> start.
>
> Still stays the same blank page.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Paul Root
>
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>
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