[Xymon] Returning configuration information to the clients

Greg,

The "config" command simply downloads a complete file, so "config client-local.cfg" should give you the complete file.

The specific section of the file client-local.cfg is returned only when a client reports using the "client" command (not "status") - the section returned depends on the client name and OS it's running - if an exact match on name exists that section is returned, otherwise the section matching the client OS reported (e.g. win32, linux, etc).

David.

I’ve been doing research into the communications protocol used by Xymon and her clients. I am using the Windows PowerShell client found here: http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/

I’ve read a man page for bb: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/hobbit.1.html

QUOTE:

" config FILENAME

          Retrieve  one of the Hobbit configuration files from the

server.

          This command allows a client to pull files from the

$BBHOME/etc/

          directory  on the server, allowing for semi-automatic

updates of

          the client configuration.  Since  the  configuration 

files are

          designed  to  have  a  common  file for the

configuration of all

          hosts in the system - and this is in fact the

recommended way of

          configuring  your  clients  -  this  makes it easier to

keep the

          configuration files synchronized.”

Using this information, I was able to execute this command…

PS> XymonSend “config client-local.cfg” “<xymon_server_name>”

… on a Windows server, inside a PowerShell window, and the entire, unedited ‘client-local.cfg’ file was displayed on screen. This is good.

Then I read the following in the Client-Local.cfg man page: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/client-local.cfg.5.htm...

QUOTE:

“The client-local.cfg file resides on the Xymon server. When clients connect to the Xymon server to send in their client data, they will receive part of this file back from the Xymon server. The configuration received by the client is then used the next time the client runs.“

It sounds like the Xymon server will accept a status message from the client, then parse the message for OS type, host name, etc… then parse the client-local.cfg file and find the lines that are applicable to the client (based upon OS type, host name, etc.) and return those to the client. None of my clients are receiving a response from the Xymon server containing configuration data. I’ve tried to construct some messages to simulate an upload from a linux host, a win32 host, and a hp-ux hosts (all of which have entries in client-local.cfg), but I never get a reply containing configuration data from the Xymon server.

Can someone tell me what should be happening and how to simulate it?

Thank you very much for your time and assistance.

~Greg

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