[Xymon] MQ monitoring on Windows

Fri Jan 10 18:49:54 CET 2014

This it BBWin, right? (which version?)

Can you put an example of the file you’re dropping in the tmp directory? (Make a copy of the actual file before it gets deleted. Mask information if there is anything sensitive.)

With Powershell, I found out the hard way that in some cases if you don’t use out-string when capturing output of a command, it doesn’t do what you expect, and the behavior is different when running a script versus the powershell command line.

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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Neil Simmonds
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 09:27
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] MQ monitoring on Windows

After much trial and error, I’ve got a powershell script that successfully sends the data even including newlines so that the format is correct, however it’s still not being seen correctly by Xymon.

When I look at client data from a linux server it looks like this,

 [collector:]
client ukclapimprb01.mqcollect mqcollect
5724-H72 (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 2009.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Starting MQSC for queue manager PBKR01.

     1 : display qlocal(*) curdepth
AMQ8409: Display Queue details.

When I look at the client data from the Windows server it looks like this,

[collector:mqcollect]

status ukclaocs006523.mqcollect client

5724-H72 (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 2009.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Starting MQSC for queue manager PMTX01.

     1 : display qlocal(*) curdepth

AMQ8409: Display Queue details.

However when I run the command the powershell console clearly shows that it is sending the correct command,

Sending to ukclamon02 :
status ukclaocs006523.mqcollect client
5724-H72 (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 2009.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Starting MQSC for queue manager PMTX01.

     1 : display qlocal(*) curdepth
AMQ8409: Display Queue details.

I’m not sure if this is because Xymon is not correctly interpreting the data or because BBWin is not correctly sending the data and I’m sure the problem is something to do with the difference between

client ukclapimprb01.mqcollect mqcollect

and

status ukclaocs006523.mqcollect client

Unfortunately, I’ve now run out of ideas for getting this working so if anyone has any it would be appreciated.

Regards,
Neil.

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Neil Simmonds
Sent: 10 January 2014 09:14
To: henrik at hswn.dk<mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] MQ monitoring on Windows

I’ve tried the “drop a text file in tmp directory” with no success so I’m currently trying the send a status message option but I can’t find a way to pass the results of the runmqsc command to the bbwincmd.

I’ve tried redirecting from a file and I’ve also tried to get the contents into a variable but that doesn’t seem possible in DOS.

Next attempt is going to be a mix of powershell and DOS.

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk<mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>
Sent: 10 January 2014 08:11
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] MQ monitoring on Windows

Den 10.01.2014 08:38, Neil Simmonds skrev:
Could you tell me which version of Xymon the ability to send a status with “client” instead of colour was introduced?
Essentially, was it after 4.3.4?
It's been there since (before) 4.3.0.
I don't know if the "drop a text file in the tmp directory" way of sending such a status works with BBWin, I have only used it with a commandline utility so sending the data was done as on a Unix box.
For it to work, your data must mimic that which is generated by the "client/mq.sh" script on Unix. And in order to get "mqcollect" as the collector ID, the test name that you use in the status message must be "mqcollect".
So a status message with
    status myhost.mqcollect client
   ... output from the runmqsc commands ...
should work. If you want to try the "drop file in tmp directory", then the file must be called "mqcollect" and have "client" as the first word on line 1.

Regards,
Henrik

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