Brilliant! That last paragraph led me to judicious use of PAGE= and a "CLASS=linux EXPAGE=" line that works for me since all of the debian hosts are on 3 pages (so far :-). And this way I didn't have to ask the debian admins to change their Xymon client configuration.
Thanks! Steve
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Steve Holmes <sholmes42 at mac.com> wrote:
Ok see, this is real similar to the problem I'm having, except I can't get it to work (Xymon 4.2.3).
My debian hosts are sending the following:
client xxxx.xxxxx.org.linux linux
The bit after the hostname is used to define the OS type. This is obtained, at the client, from the lower-cased output of "uname -s", but can be overridden by defining in xymonclient.cfg by setting SERVEROSTYPE. See the man page for xymonclient.cfg for info. If you add "SERVEROSTYPE=debian" into xymonclient.cfg (and restart xymon), then you should get your client data showing this:
client xxxx.xxxxx.org.debian linux
I haven't tried this, but it might do what you want.
Our [debian] servers keep some files in a different location than our other Linux servers (Redhat) so the Debian servers get "File is missing" errors and I have to disable the test to prevent the warning from showing up.
I have a global [linux] section, and per-host definitions where they deviate. It's a bit of a hassle replicating the same definitions for a bunch of identical hosts, but I only have to set it up once per host.
J
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