[Xymon] Xymon script for linux

[Jeremy Laidman]

Would it be difficult to have the server-side linux parser look for [ports]
and if not found, then look for [ss]; and similarly, [ifconfig] has
[ip-addr] as its fallback (assuming "ip addr show" gives similar output -
probably doesn't, but you get the idea)?

Minorly tangential, I think sar is more universally available these days
than when the client scripts were first created. So I'm wondering if we
should make better use of sar, perhaps even have a [sar] section of the
client message, that is the first place that xymond goes when looking for
statistics.

On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 00:52, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

> On 9/18/2019 8:05 AM, Zdeněk Tlustý wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > the script xymonclient-linux.sh is using commands like ifconfig,
> > netstat, etc. These commands are marked as depreciated and some of the
> > Linux distributions have removed them already. For example SuSE Linux
> > Enterprise Server 15 has no support for netstat and ifconfig.
> > The replacement are commands from iproute2 package like ip, ss,
> > routel, etc.
> > Are there any plan to replace depreciated commands with new ones?
>
>
> Especially with SS and IP, it's something that's on the road map.
> Unfortunately, doing that in a backwards-compatible way will still
> keeping the 'linux' OStype/class 'linux' might prove difficult without a
> lot more text processing. (This flag is split on the receiving side for
> parsing out what client evaluations to run and how, since the output of
> SunOS, Linux, BSDs, and other *nixes can vary widely.)
>
> One could either move current OS's to something like "linux-old", or
> have upgraded scripts under "linux-new", or do a lot of 'awk' calls in
> xymonclient-linux.sh to try to duplicate previous output more precisely.
> I'm not sure which is better there.
>
> Regards,
> -jc
>
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