[Xymon] xymon, xymon-rclient and md5sum checks

On 4 June 2015 at 00:56, oliver <ohemming at gmail.com> wrote:

1. Should this be working or is it a limitation of xymon-rclient?

It's the latter, I'm afraid. :-(

xymon-rclient is intended to (among other things) emulate logfetch, which is where the md5 hashing is implemented. I don't believe any part of Xymon (client or server) uses the MD5 environment variable, so setting will have no effect.

2. What, if anything, is wrong with my config?

Nothing that I can see. It's just not (yet) supported. I couldn't remember for sure, but comments in the source code are my off-line memory:

# Note: Due to the complexity in keeping state,
# only "file:" and "dir:" are implemented at this
# stage.  Neither can backticks be used yet (the
# result is unknown).  The "file:" setting cannot
# use the optional hash field yet.  Linecount does
# not require state, but simply hasn't yet been
# implemented.

Also, the "file:" line parser code (line 482) simply discards anything after a second colon.

Patches are welcome. ;-)

Cheers Jeremy