[Xymon] Sending client data without client installed

31 Oct 2012

      Raymond Lee wrote:
...
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk
<mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>> wrote:
On 30-10-2012 21:22, Raymond Lee wrote:

    I have a Cisco ACS appliance that runs a CentOS-based OS.  I cannot
    install the Xymon client on it, but I can ssh to it from our Xymon
    server and run "show tech-support" to get the output of a long
    list of
    commands that include df -k, ps -aux, netstat -an, etc., and
    save the
    output to a file.
    [...] can I

    just send them to the Xymon server and have it magically know
    what to do
    with them to populate the disk, procs, and ports columns?

If you modify the data you have to that the command outputs have the
headers that Xymon expects - the "[df]", "[ps]" etc section markers,
see the "client data" from one of your other servers - then there is
a fair chance that it might work.

In other words, if you can make your data look like what e.g. a
Linux client would send, then it should work with Xymon.
Yup, I was already going down that route while parsing the output from
the Cisco ACS command.
The way to send the data off to Xymon would then be

   xymon 10.0.0.1 "@" &lt; datafile

and your datafile would have to begin with a line

   client myhostname.linux cisco_acs

The "linux" part means that it will be interpreted by the Linux
client handler; "cisco_acs" defines the configuration "class" that
you can optionally use in the analysis.cfg to write common rules for
all of your ACS systems.

The worst that can happen is that you won't see any statuses on your
Xymon webpage; then we'll have to dig into the xymond/client/linux.c
code to see how it is interpreted.
Wow, this worked perfectly!  I can see the columns on the webpage now.

Thanks, Henrik!
-Ray
Regards,
Henrik

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Maybe too late now, but I have had good success with this for various
linux based appliances :-
http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-rclient/
Andy

[Xymon] Sending client data without client installed

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http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-rclient/