[Xymon] XymonD --merge-clientlocal issues

[Timothy Williams]

Yes, that's right about tasks.cfg. It had other start parameters, and have
added the merge.

Do you think that it needs [host=server1] rather than just [server1]?

Tim

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:30 PM Thomas Eckert <thomas.eckert at it-eckert.de>
wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> for future readers: There is an error in the man page
> `xymond(8)`: `--merge-clientconfig` in `xymond(8)` is **wrong**. The option
> `--merge-clientlocal` documented in `client-local.cfg(5)` is correct.
> You added this in `tasks.cfg` to the launch of `xymond`, right?
>
> I have this running successfully in a Linux-environment with host-specific
> (`[host=%www.*]`) and class (`[linux]`)-sections and the sections merge
> fine.
>
> Cheers
> Thomas
>
> On 16 Oct 2018, at 17:40, Timothy Williams <tlwilliams4 at vcu.edu> wrote:
>
> We have set up a new 4.3.28 xymon server, and will be migrating hosts to
> it in the next few weeks. On it I would like to start to use the
> --merge-clientlocal command. In testing, Windows powershell clients pick up
> either the individual host section OR the powershell section, it does not
> merge. Are there subtleties not in the man-pages that people have found to
> get it to work? (note that the xymond man-page states to use
> --merge-clientconfig, but that doesn't work either)
>
> Could it be the section/host headings, or order? I have:
>
> [server1]
> file:somefile
>
> [server2]
> file:different file
>
> [os=powershell] (also tried [class=powershell] and [powershell] alone)
> xymonlogsend
> clientversion:2.28:http://url
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Williams
>
>
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