[Xymon] Running a custom test on multiple clients.

[Timothy Williams]

On the Windows PSXymon or (shudder) BBWin client, you can run an external
script by specifying it in the client-config file. Client can download from
a central repository using URL or BB: (from Xymon server) link to run every
scan or on slow scan. Therefore, changes to script are immediately
distributed. The script can write an output file to TMP folder and that is
picked up and displayed on Xymon console (name of file becomes name of
column).

As Windows clients were built to mimic the Linux client, I would assume
there is a mechanism there as well.


*Timothy L. Williams*Windows Server
*Operating Systems Analyst*

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:12 AM Gabby Gibbons via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
wrote:

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> Subject: Running a custom test on multiple clients.
> Hello,
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> I am trying to figure out if there's a way to write a custom test on the
> xymon server and then run that test on each client as the client. I am
> aware of the ability to write a test on the server and then use XYMONGREP
> to run a test on each machine as the server, but the problem with that is,
> as far as I can tell, you can only run unauthenticated checks from the
> outside of the system. Say, for example, I want to monitor a log file using
> xymon on each client. If I were able to run the check on each system itself
> as the authenticated xymon user I could do that easily, but I wouldn't be
> able to view that file from the outside with another computer without first
> authenticating.
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> Right now my solution is to simply copy all of the custom tests I have to
> each monitored machine. This works, but the problem is that it's so
> decentralized. Every time I make a simple change to a script or want to add
> a new custom script I have to go to every single machine and make the same
> change. Being able to centralize this somewhat and have the clients all
> read from one source would make managing custom tests much much easier. Is
> this possible to do?
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