[Xymon] Xymon PowerShell Windows client

[David Baldwin]

On 5/03/15 10:07 AM, Brandon Dale wrote:
>
> The problem is if you are running both bbwin and the powershell client 
> you need a way to be able to setup separate commands in the 
> client-local.cfg for each type of client.
>
If BBWin will just ignore (or at least be unaffected by) the ones it 
doesn't understand then that shouldn't be a problem, it's only if there 
are mutual incompatibilities that should be an issue.

David.
>
> Regards,
>
> *Brandon *
>
> *From:*David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 5 March 2015 8:57 AM
> *To:* zak.beck at accenture.com; jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au; Brandon Dale
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Xymon PowerShell Windows client
>
> Zak,
>
>     Unfortunately, you can't fake the BBWin identifier for just one
>     section – you have to change the client to report in as BBwin. It
>     was changed so that we could experimentally use separate
>     configuration options for BBWin clients and Powershell clients.
>
>     To change how the client reports itself, change line 2746 in the
>     current commit:
>
>     2745 WriteLog "Performing main and optional tests and building
>     output..."
>     2746    $clout = "client " + $clientname + ".powershell powershell
>     XymonPS" | Out-String
>     2747    $clsecs = XymonClientSections | Out-String
>
>     In the original Powershell client, this line was:
>
>     $clout = "client " + $clientname + ".bbwin win32" | Out-String
>
>     So you can see we've changed '.bbwin' to '.powershell' and 'win32'
>     to 'powershell'.
>
>     I appreciate this isn't very good and should probably be a
>     configuration item.
>
> Changing the client from bbwin to something else is less harmful. 
> Changing class from win32 to powershell will probably break LOTS of 
> stuff. I suspect many users migrating from BBWin use "class=win32" in 
> analysis.cfg (hobbit-clients.cfg) file extensively. The class is 
> probably also used in the section parsing -> status reports/RRD data 
> extraction. It will also break the config segment returned from 
> client-local.cfg - e.g.
>
> [win32]
> dir:C:\Windows\Temp
> log:c:\WINDOWS\WindowsUpdate.log:20480
>
> David.
>
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Information and Communication Technology Services
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