[Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows

[me at tdiehl.org]

Hi Timothy,

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022, Timothy Williams wrote:

> First, make sure the xymonclient_config.xml contains the
> line <clientremotecfgexec>1</clientremotecfgexec> to tell the script to get
> the remote config file from Xymon server.

Yes, it is there but your suggestion made me take a closer look at the
xymonclient_config.xml file and I found that the clientconfigfile directive was
pointed at a non-existant path. DUH!! Once I fixed that things started working.

Thanks to all that helped.


Regards,

-- 
Tom			me at tdiehl.org

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 1:54 PM <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Resending this as I sent it from the wrong address and figured it would get
>> moderated.
>>
>> Sorry for the duplicate message.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, David Boyer wrote:
>>
>>> Try setting it up for a file to exist on the drive.  If the drive goes
>>> offline, the file will become non-existent and should alert.
>>
>> That sounds like a great idea, however I cannot for the life of me get
>> Xymon
>> to see any files. The msgs column just stays clear.
>>
>> I have added the following to client-local.cfg:
>> [host=fs1.mydomain.com]
>> file:D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt
>>
>> as well as "FILE D:\Canary_DO_NOT_Delete.txt" to analysis.cfg file.
>>
>> I also see the following in the powershell client log:
>> 2022-04-28 12:57:38.030  Connecting to host XX.XX.XX.178
>> 2022-04-28 12:57:38.061  Sent 112 bytes to server
>> 2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  Received 0 bytes from server
>> 2022-04-28 12:57:38.265  XymonProcessRuntimeCheck finished
>>
>> Based on the above it looks like the Xymon server is not sending the
>> client-local
>> data to the client. Is there something I need to do to get Xymon to send
>> the
>> client-local data to the client or am I missing something else?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Tom                     me at tdiehl.org
>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 3:16 PM <me at tdiehl.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Becker Christian wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Tom,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the following should do it for you: try to include the disks of the
>>>> mentioned windows server in analysis.cfg with the needed options, even
>> if
>>>> they already show up in the disk section.
>>>>>
>>>>> Example:
>>>>>
>>>>> HOST=WINDOWSSERVER
>>>>>       DISK   C   85   90
>>>>>       DISK   D   55   70
>>>>>
>>>>> (Pls note that changes like this could take some minutes before they
>> are
>>>> reflected by xymon.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Now xymon knows that you explicitly want to know about these disks. You
>>>> can verify this if you add a disk in this section that doesn't exist on
>> the
>>>> windows server: after a couple of minutes, xymon should report this
>> disk as
>>>> red in the disk section.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot get the above to work.
>>>>
>>>> I have a file in analysis.d with the following in it:
>>>> HOST=fs1.mydomain.com
>>>>      DISK C 90 95
>>>>      DISK D 93 95
>>>> This was there when the D drive went offline and Xymon never alerted.
>>>>
>>>> To test further, I dropped the warning for the D drive to 78 which is
>> less
>>>> than
>>>> the current usage of 79% and I added the below.
>>>>      DISK z 93 95
>>>> What I found was the D drive went yellow as expected but the Z drive is
>>>> ignored
>>>> as it does not exist.
>>>>
>>>> I am running 4.3.30 from the Terebithia rpms.
>>>>
>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tom                     me at tdiehl.org
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards and good luck!
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>> Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von me at tdiehl.org
>>>>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. April 2022 22:58
>>>>> An: xymon at xymon.com
>>>>> Betreff: [Xymon] Can Xymon alert for a missing disk on windows?
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to have Xymon alert if a disk is missing on a Windows
>>>> server?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the win_ps_client installed on them and I see the disks listed
>> in
>>>> the client data. Is it possible to configure Xymon to alert is one of
>> those
>>>> disks is missing?
>>>>>
>>>>> We had a server that one of the disks went off line after updates were
>>>> installed and the machine was rebooted (Thanks Microsoft). Xymon was
>> happy
>>>> but the users were not.
>>>>>
>>>>> My Google foo has not yielded anything useful but I feel like this
>>>> should be possible without resorting to Powershell weirdness.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
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