[Xymon] xymon-rclient.sh

[Kris Springer]

I'm not getting any log files from FreeNAS using the rclient.  The 
server website says "The client did not report any logfile data".  Any 
ideas?
Signature - Kris

Thank you.

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Kris Springer



On 8/5/2014 10:39 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>
> Great news. Thanks for the update.  I'll add FreeNAS to the 
> compatibility list, with the shell caveat.
>
> On 01/08/2014 4:02 PM, "Kris Springer" <kspringer at innovateteam.com 
> <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well done!!  Adding the '/bin/bash' to the cmd line worked! 
>     Results are flowing in and all is well.  Thanks for help.  Good
>     job. :-)
>
>     Thank you.
>
>     ------------------------------------------------
>
>     Kris Springer
>
>
>
>     On 7/31/2014 7:21 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>>     On 1 August 2014 10:45, Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at centurylink.com
>>     <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Yes. The xymon-rclient script scp’s the proper script from
>>         ~/client/bin to the client and runs it.
>>
>>
>>     Actually, that's not correct.  It uses "ssh" (or rsh, or whatever
>>     you want to give it) to run a shell, then pipes the contents of
>>     the xymonclient-freebsd.sh file into the pipe.  Essentially like
>>     this:
>>
>>     $ cat /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-freebsd.sh | ssh -T
>>     -i path/to/keyfile hostname
>>
>>     and the output is saved into a temporary file to be fed into
>>     $XYMON $XYMSRV "@", but prefixed with a "client" message header.
>>
>>     If you run that "cat ..." command manually it should give you
>>     client data as its output.  Try it and see.
>>
>>     If it works, then xymon-rclient should also work and might have a
>>     bug.  If this doesn't work, then we can reproduce the problem
>>     outside of xymon-rclient and it will be easier to work on.
>>
>>     I wonder if it's to do with the shell on the FreeNAS.  If it's a
>>     non-standard shell, you might need to force a shell in the ssh
>>     parameters, with something like:
>>
>>     cmd(ssh -T -i /home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient root@%{H}
>>     /bin/bash),ostype(freebsd)
>>
>>     J
>>
>

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