[Xymon] Clients not loading custom client-local.cfg values

[Bradley, Joshua E.]

These are very helpful suggestions to use for troubleshooting. The ³client
data² page was showing something like
    [collector:]
    client server,name,ems,com.linux linux

Which was clearly not respecting the ³--class=suse-srvs² that was being
applied to the startup script.

I¹ve tried starting the client now with:  ³./runclient.sh --os=suse-srvs
start² which does adjust the OS value reported accordingly, but as there
isn¹t a ³xymonclient-suse-srvs.sh² script the msgs just pile up in the
./tmp/ and are never delivered to the server.

Any other thoughts or suggestions are welcomed.

-- 
Thanks,
Josh Bradley


From: Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:06:40 +1000
To: Joshua Bradley <jbradley at ems.com>
Cc: <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Clients not loading custom client-local.cfg values

What does your "client data" page show as your config class?  It's the last
word of the first line in the [collector:] section.

I note that you show "-class" set to "suse-srv" but your client-local.cfg
entry set to "suse-srvs" instead.  Was that a typo in your email, or in your
configuration?

Also, the "--class" suffix has two dashes, and you listed only one.

Also, after changes to client-local.cfg, you might need to kill the "xymond"
process (it should restart automatically) to have the changes take effect.

It should work for you.  The man page for client-local.cfg states that only
the hostname and OS name are used when matching the relevant section, and
doesn't mention the config class.  Despite this, I see posts indicating that
people are using this.  Indeed Henrik has said that it's actually the class
that's matched, and the class defaults to the OS type.  I think the doco
needs updating in this regard.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Bradley, Joshua E. <jbradley at ems.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> We have a variety of servers in our environment which we¹re looking to monitor
> with Xymon. I¹ve recently built a Xymon server 4.3.7 and compiled some clients
> on our SUSE 9 machines. When running the clients they only seem to match the
> entries in the client-local.cfg file on the server for [linux] and not the
> custom entries which I created [suse-srvs]. I¹ve tried launching the client
> with with ‹class=suse-srv but to no avail. I feel like I¹m missing something,
> can anyone give me some feedback?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Josh Bradley
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