[Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows

[me at tdiehl.org]

Hi,

Resending this as I sent it from the wrong address and figured it would get
moderated.

Sorry for the duplicate message.


On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, David Boyer wrote:

> Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes
> offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.

That sounds like a great idea, however I cannot for the life of me get Xymon
to see any files. The msgs column just stays clear.

I have added the following to client-local.cfg:
[host=fs1.mydomain.com]
file:D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt

as well as "FILE D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt" to analysis.cfg file.

I also see the following in the powershell client log:
2022-04-28 12:57:38.030  Connecting to host XX.XX.XX.178
2022-04-28 12:57:38.061  Sent 112 bytes to server
2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  Received 0 bytes from server
2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  XymonProcessRuntimeCheck finished

Based on the above it looks like the Xymon server is not sending the client-local
data to the client. Is there something I need to do to get Xymon to send the
client-local data to the client or am I missing something else?

Regards,

-- 
Tom			me at tdiehl.org

>
> Dave
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:
>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>>
>>> the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the
>> mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even if
>> they already show up in the disk section.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
>>>       DISK   C   85   90
>>>       DISK   D   55   70
>>>
>>> (Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they are
>> reflected by xymon.)
>>>
>>> Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You
>> can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on the
>> windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this disk as
>> red in the disk section.
>>
>> I cannot get the above to work.
>>
>> I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
>> HOST=fs1.mydomain.com
>>      DISK C 90 95
>>      DISK D 93 95
>> This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.
>>
>> To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is less
>> than
>> the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
>>      DISK z 93 95
>> What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is
>> ignored
>> as it does not exist.
>>
>> I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Tom                     me at tdiehl.org
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards and good luck!
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von me at tdiehl.org
>>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
>>> An: xymon at xymon.com
>>> Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows
>> server?
>>>
>>> I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed in
>> the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of those
>> disks is missing?
>>>
>>> We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were
>> installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was happy
>> but the users were not.
>>>
>>> My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this
>> should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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