[Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

[zak.beck at accenture.com]

Hi



I'm not sure I understand the question fully, I'm sure there will be other 
people on the list who can help.



The client runs as a Windows service and monitors the space and processes 
running on that one server. It then reports back those results every 5 minutes 
(by default) to the Xymon server.



If you're asking whether this client can be running on server 1 and monitor 
server 2, no, it cannot. As far as I know, Xymon is not really designed like 
that.



However, if each node is attached to shared storage, and the storage is 
presented as a mapped drive, then yes, it can monitor that. You'd need to use 
in the local config:



<wanteddisks>3 4</wanteddisks>



and use the update I committed earlier today.



Thanks

Zak



From: Dito [mailto:dito74 at gmail.com]
Sent: 17 February 2015 13:53
To: Beck, Zak; xymon-developer at lists.sourceforge.net; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client



can it be used in a MS cluster resource?  can I monitor sql resource and space 
on it,  independently of which node it is running on?



On Fri, Feb 13, 2015, 06:35 null <zak.beck at accenture.com 
<mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> > wrote:

Hi all,



Today I have uploaded a new version of the Xymon Powershell client to SVN (in 
sandbox/WinPSClient). We (Accenture) are very pleased to be contributing these 
changes to the open source community. I've been working on this now for around 
8 months on and off and hopefully the changes made will be of benefit to 
everyone!



Whilst making changes, we have focussed mainly on making it work, improving 
reliability and most importantly improving performance.



In most cases, on our 64 bit OS virtual machines, a data collection now takes 
around 5 seconds. On heavily loaded (CPU load or event log load) servers, the 
script is now considerably faster than originally. Key to this has been 
reducing the amount of WMI usage as this was a major culprit.



We have also implemented some new features, largely based on our in-house 
requirements but hopefully useful to others:



*         Showing the process owner and command line in [procs]. This has been 
implemented using c# code, compiled at runtime.

*         Adding Active Directory replication test, Terminal Services sessions 
test

*         Ability to restart any stopped Windows service

*         Client self-update

*         Dirsize and dirtime checks (which were originally external scripts)



Some things have changed slightly; for example, the local configuration which 
was registry-based is now XML-based (you can still use registry settings if 
you prefer).  In the SVN repository I have also uploaded a Word document which 
describes how to install and the configuration options.



I have uploaded all the revisions we have made to SVN so there is a history of 
development. Whilst we will endeavour to continue contributing changes and 
improvements in coming months, this is an open source project and as such we 
are not offering any formal support. If anyone wishes to bugfix, branch or 
whatever, please do so!

Zak Beck
Accenture

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