[Xymon] clients in localmode cannot check files

[Christoph Zechner]

On 19/04/2022 10:20, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> If you go to the CPU status page (or disk or ports, etc) there's a link 
> at the bottom that says "client data available".
> 
> Maybe there's no client data when in local mode?

I see, thanks! There's data, yes.

> 
> Did you create the file $XYMONHOME/etc/logfetch.cfg?

Oh, the file has to be named logfetch.cfg, not "logfetch.<client>.cfg" 
as per the old mailinglist entry! Now it works, thank you so much!

Cheers
Christoph


> 
> 
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, 15:57 Christoph Zechner, <zechner at vrvis.at 
> <mailto:zechner at vrvis.at>> wrote:
> 
>     On 19/04/2022 07:47, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>      > I don't use local mode, but I'll see if I can help.
>      >
>      > I believe you still need to configure analysis.cfg on the server.
> 
>     I tried that prior to sending my message to the mailing list, sorry, I
>     should have included that information. It did not change anything.
> 
>      >
>      > Check your client data report and see if there is a section for the
>      > dinner you're monitoring.
> 
>     Which data report do you mean?
> 
>     Christoph
> 
> 
>      >
>      > J
>      >
>      >
>      > On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, 14:22 Christoph Zechner, <zechner at vrvis.at
>     <mailto:zechner at vrvis.at>
>      > <mailto:zechner at vrvis.at <mailto:zechner at vrvis.at>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      >     Hi,
>      >
>      >     I've been running my clients in localmode for a while now and
>     one thing
>      >     that's not working at all, is checking for files.
>      >
>      >     In a default configuration, there must be an entry in
>     client-local.cfg
>      >     and in analysis.cfg, but this does not apply to localmode.
>      >
>      >     My file checks are configured in localclient.cfg on the
>     clients (like
>      >     the rest of the checks, which are working fine and as expected).
>      >
>      >     I found an old question regarding this [1], but I was not
>     able to solve
>      >     my problems with this approach unfortunately. My file checks
>     are just
>      >     being ignored when clients are using localmode.
>      >
>      >     Is there some trick to it respectively what am I doing wrong
>     here?
>      >
>      >     Thanks in advance!
>      >
>      >     Cheers
>      >     Christoph
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >     [1] https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2014-March/039417.html
>     <https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2014-March/039417.html>
>      >     <https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2014-March/039417.html
>     <https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2014-March/039417.html>>
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