[Xymon] Configuring the debian xymon client

[John Thurston]

On 1/16/2019 4:12 PM, John Thurston wrote:
> On 1/16/2019 2:23 PM, Adam Thorn wrote:
>> The way xymon works is that in the default "central" mode, a script 
>> runs periodically on the client which sends data to the "central" 
>> server where it's then parsed to generate the various test results. 
>> The message sent to the server contains the output of e.g.
>>
>> /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-linux.sh
. . .

> It looks like I'll need to hack the script, and see how the parser on 
> the xymon server reacts.


Which I have done, and I'm getting closer to what I need. It looks like 
the parser is ok with missing sections, so I've stripped 
xymonclient-linux.sh almost bare. If this works out, I'll probably make 
a new script and reference it by overriding the os type.


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