On 1/26/2017 3:31 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:

Forgot to mention, I am using centos 6.8 and I do see the sections dir here ( and no local dir ). /usr/share/xymon-client/sections under that dir I do see few scripts

ls

ipcs meminfo mounts README vmstats

I have xymon-client-4.3.21-4.el6.x86_64 installed I went ahead and added a script called lscpu

cat /usr/share/xymon-client/sections/lscpu

#!/bin/dash

collecting cpu info

exec /usr/bin/lscpu 2>/dev/null

Do I need to restart the xymon client? So, if I understand correctly, this script will survive a yum update xymon-client?

Thanks a lot for such a detail description!

Nope, it scans the directory each time executes, so it should be visible in the next report. Just make sure the script is chmod +x If a 'local' directory is present it's searched, otherwise it's not. The README there (or the README-local and README-sections in /usr/share/doc/xymon-client-*/) has a fuller explanation. The actual reading is done inside xymonclient.sh (not xymonclient-linux.sh), so this applies equally to all OS's.

And yes, any file left in there should be untouched by RPM when an update occurs.

Regards, -jc