On Wed, March 2, 2016 10:10 pm, John Tullis wrote:
Sorry if this has been answered. Is there any way to control thresholds on the Xymon-Client Linux client side like I can control thresholds in the bbwingui.exe utility for Windows?
I have a lot of different people that like to control what alerts they get but don't have access to modify files on the Xymon server and it would be nice if they could define those thresholds on their own.
Thanks,
John Tullis
Hi John,
Yes, this is referred to as local or client config mode. Although there isn't a GUI for it like in Windows, the concept is similar.
Depending on how your client is deployed onto your system, you might need
to recompile or generate a new tarball with, or install a new package. If
compiling from source, answer "client" to the first question from
./configure --client.
The end result will be a xymon client that has "--local" on the CMD line inside clientlaunch.cfg, a new config file "localclient.cfg", and an extra copy of xymond_client in the bin directory. localclient.cfg is the same format as analysis.cfg, except you'll want to configure your settings under the 'DEFAULT' host config name.
Essentially what happens at run time is that instead of the raw client data being sent to the xymon server for analysis, the localclient.cfg file is used to generate status pages locally, using whatever the local admin has placed in there for thresholding, etc.
HTH, -jc