[Xymon] client-local.cfg

[Galen Johnson]

1) Well...poo!  That's unfortunate as we have several dozen of similarly named servers we need to run some specific file checks on and it's going to be a bit annoying to have to add each one individually.

2) I'm concerned about having to use a command to find certain files..."If you want to check multiple files using a wildcard, you must use a command to generate the filenames. Putting wildcards directly into the file: entry will not work."  Which would imply that if I want to check for a files using a wild card, I would need to have a line in client-local.cfg like:

file:`ls /path/to/<pattern>`

=G=

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From: Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 10:35 AM
To: Galen Johnson
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] client-local.cfg

> Hey,
>
> I have a couple of questions regarding the client-local.cfg file.
>
> 1) can it handle reg-ex for hostnames like other cfg files?  For example,
>  [%(myhost1|myhost2).*]
>
> 2) According to the man page for client-local.cfg, "When clients connect
> to the Xymon server to send in their client data, they will receive part
> of this file back from the Xymon server." What if you are using
> xymonfetch?  Would I need to create a local client-local.cfg file within
> the .../xymon/client/etc folder?

1) Already ran through this (even asked on this list)...no...no regexp for
the hosts in client-local.cfg.

2) Use the client-local.cfg file on the server in $XYMONHOME/etc (or, if
you installed via rpm, /etc/xymon. I do have a couple of systems where I'm
using xymonfetch, and it's pulling data, including log info and such,
without any issues.

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