[Xymon] What determines displayed columns?

[Mills, David (IS)]

Thanks Michael / Larry!

OK - here's what I'm finding as I continue to probe the guts of hobbit (Xymon 4.3.3) in my environment:
I have a host with the following column headings:

                                bbd        conn      cpu         disk        http       info        iostat     iostat2   mem2  memory  meta  msgs \
                                                nfs  ntp  ports    procs     prtdiag   raid  sar  ssh      tm          trends  xymond  xymongen  \
xymonnet  zones

It's config looks like this in hosts.cfg:

                                group   Some Group Heading
                                x.x.x.x    dwru002      # bbd ssh ntp      ENV:winall,2 ENV:global,2 ENV:vlan,12 http://dwru002

I copy that same line and paste it below this host, but change the name from "dwru002" to "Surprise" - same IP -  like this:

                                group   Some Group Heading
                                x.x.x.x    dwru002      # bbd ssh ntp      ENV:winall,2 ENV:global,2 ENV:vlan,12 http://dwru002
                                x.x.x.x    Surprise       #  bbd ssh ntp ENV:winall,2 ENV:global,2 ENV:vlan,12 http://dwru002

The only columns populating besides "trends" and "info" for "Surprise" are:

                bbd  conn  http  ntp  ssh

So somewhere in the Xymon config, it's keying off the exact name of "dwru002" to generate all these other columns of data, but where?
Also - I thought I should get "cpu, mem, procs, disk" and a few others by default, unless quashed in the tag fields. What gives?

Thanks for any ideas...

david

From: Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:18 PM
To: Mills, David (IS)
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] What determines displayed columns?

By default Xymon will display every test it has data for. You can use the 'xymon' command to find out what these are these: xymon <xymonhostname> 'xymondboard host=<hostname>'. You can control which tests get displayed by using the "group" directive in your hosts.cfg file. See the hosts.cfg man page for details.

Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Mills, David (IS) <David.Mills at ngc.com<mailto:David.Mills at ngc.com>> wrote:
All -

Besides adding specific tags for services / tests in hosts.cfg, what determines which service columns appear on web page for a particular client? I.e. I have some clients in my environment which do not have any tags in hosts.cfg, but display several "tests".

I see part of the puzzle: the client runs (in my case): ~/xymon/client_sunos-5.10/bin/xymonclient-sunos.sh, which generates the following columns of data

                date
                uname
                uptime
                who
                df
                mount
                prtconf
                memory
                swap
                swaplist
                ifconfig
                route
                netstat
                ports
                ifstat
                ps
                top

I also see there's a file called ~/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg, which is like the server-side "tasks.cfg" in concept / syntax.

However, what determines which of these stanzas applies for which-host?

Thanks!

david
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David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
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