[Xymon] Sending client data without client installed

[Raymond Lee]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> On 30-10-2012 21:22, Raymond Lee wrote:
>
>> I have a Cisco ACS appliance that runs a CentOS-based OS.  I cannot
>> install the Xymon client on it, but I can ssh to it from our Xymon
>> server and run "show tech-support" to get the output of a long list of
>> commands that include df -k, ps -aux, netstat -an, etc., and save the
>> output to a file.
>> [...] can I
>>
>> just send them to the Xymon server and have it magically know what to do
>> with them to populate the disk, procs, and ports columns?
>>
>
> If you modify the data you have to that the command outputs have the
> headers that Xymon expects - the "[df]", "[ps]" etc section markers, see
> the "client data" from one of your other servers - then there is a fair
> chance that it might work.
>
> In other words, if you can make your data look like what e.g. a Linux
> client would send, then it should work with Xymon.
>


Yup, I was already going down that route while parsing the output from the
Cisco ACS command.



>
> The way to send the data off to Xymon would then be
>
>    xymon 10.0.0.1 "@" < datafile
>
> and your datafile would have to begin with a line
>
>    client myhostname.linux cisco_acs
>
> The "linux" part means that it will be interpreted by the Linux client
> handler; "cisco_acs" defines the configuration "class" that you can
> optionally use in the analysis.cfg to write common rules for all of your
> ACS systems.
>
> The worst that can happen is that you won't see any statuses on your Xymon
> webpage; then we'll have to dig into the xymond/client/linux.c code to see
> how it is interpreted.
>


Wow, this worked perfectly!  I can see the columns on the webpage now.
Thanks, Henrik!


-Ray



>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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