[Xymon] [Newbie] Smaller, lighter Xymon based program?

[Michael Beatty]

For the MMQ monitoring, I'd start by looking at the BB extension 
archive. http://communities.quest.com/community/big-brother  I didn't 
take the time to look, but there may be extensions that you can download 
that will monitor MMQ.  If not, you will need to write a custom script.  
Details on this are in the Xymon help section under "Tips and Tricks" 
"How can I create a custom test script". From a high level, you will 
need to write a script that utilizes tools through MMQ to collect the 
data you are looking to monitor. Then add the details to execute, log, 
etc... to clientlaunch.cfg.

In response to your 600 installed clients.  Xymon has its own utility 
that makes it fairly simple to make changes to one client and 
automatically push the changes out to all (or any) client. The utility 
is called "clientupdate".  Details about this utility can be found in 
the xymon man-pages.


On 01/09/2013 10:08 AM, MatthewHarris at air-watch.com wrote:
>
> I am very new to linux and xymon is my first project, can anyone help 
> me add a test to test the clusters we are monitoring?  I am very new, 
> I have only really touched the hosts.cfg and the analysis.cfg to add 
> the infrastructure and a few services to be monitored on the servers 
> we have set up. I have installed roughly 600 xymon clients manually, 
> we have no method that we are allowed to use to push them.  Now I just 
> need to customize the monitoring more for our environment.  I also 
> need to figure out how to make a test that will monitor the Microsoft 
> Message Queuing, I have no clue on how I will do that.  Can anyone 
> help me out, I need some specific instructions to work with, I am 
> doing my best to set this up with very little knowledge on linux. 
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
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