[Xymon] Need client for Mac hosts

[IO Support]

So I copied xymonclient-darwin.sh onto a Mac laptop I have and just ran 
it from a terminal to see if it would do anything.  It did display a lot 
of great info in the terminal, but there's nothing in the script that 
dumps the output to a tmp file or points to a Server address.  So I 
pulled a few more files from the Sourceforge /client/ folder in the 
hopes that the script would look for the xymonclient.cfg and send some 
data to the server.  Running the xymonclient.sh script tries to do 
somethings, but it's looking for things in paths that don't exist since 
I'm not actually installing anything, I'm just manually running a 
script.  I'm obviously missing some vital piece of this puzzle.  Does 
anyone have some simple instructions or point me at whatever it is I'm 
missing here?  I find it hard to believe there isn't someone out there 
that's got this figured out already.

Thank You,
Kris Springer

On 12/20/23 12:47 AM, Ralph M wrote:
> As far as autostart goes, I have a bunch of clients running from 
> cron.  Forget runclient.sh, just start the main xymonclient.sh every 
> five minutes.  That is, you don't need to fight with systemd or init.d 
> to get the client to report.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 1:27 AM Brian Scott <bscott at bunyatech.com.au> 
> wrote:
>
>     A few years ago I built a client for a Macos server. The target
>     server is quite a few versions of macos old so probably not what
>     you are looking for. I just built it on my Mac laptop then bundled
>     it all up in a tar file and copied it over and did some
>     installation. My current laptop is an M2 so I doubt I could do it
>     again right now.
>
>     As I recall the xymonclient-darwin script was mostly fine. There
>     was a little entertainment with the way Apple manages it's disks
>     these days. I've attached what looks like the changes I made as a
>     diff.
>
>     I'm not at $work at the moment so I can't check exactly what else
>     I did. I must have done something to get it to auto start at boot.
>     Probably didn't keep any notes either. I'll try to have a look
>     next time I'm there.
>
>     Also quite possible that rclient will work well. There's some
>     fixes that I had to do recently to account for some dropped
>     commands from rclient when talking to FreeBSD systems so that may
>     also be relevant.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     On 19/12/2023 3:58 pm, Ralph M wrote:
>>     I would guess the script in the repository is the latest
>>     version.  I'm not a Mac user, so take that as an opinion, not a
>>     fact.  As part of the main distribution, any changes would have
>>     been rolled into that file.
>>
>>     Ralph Mitchell
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 11:04 PM IO Support
>>     <support at ionetworkadmin.com> wrote:
>>
>>         Where would I obtain a semi-current xymonclient-darwin.sh
>>         script?  I will try to use the one I found in the latest
>>         branch on Sourceforge that JC has been working on, but it was
>>         last edited in 2015.
>>         https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/branches/4.x-master/client/xymonclient-darwin.sh
>>
>>         Does anyone have anything a little more current that they use?
>>
>>         Thank You,
>>         Kris Springer
>>
>>
>>         On 12/14/23 12:21 PM, Ralph M wrote:
>>>         Would this do it for you??
>>>
>>>         http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-rclient/
>>>
>>>         Nothing to install on the remote host, other than SSH keys. 
>>>         It fires the appropriate xymonclient-[OS].sh script down the
>>>         SSH connection and collects the results.  I don't know
>>>         anything about Macs, but the xymonclient-darwin.sh script is
>>>         for MacOS X so that might be a good starting point.
>>>
>>>         Ralph Mitchell
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 2:38 AM I/O Network Administration
>>>         <support at ionetworkadmin.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>             Anyone have a modern xymon-client script or app that
>>>             will run on Mac? I'm aware of the macport method, but
>>>             that's a large footprint and heavy handed solution to
>>>             the simple need of collecting performance data and
>>>             uploading it to the Server.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>             Thank You,
>>>             Kris Springer​
>>>             I/O Network Administration
>>>             https://www.ionetworkadmin.com
>>>
>>>
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