Would it be difficult to have the server-side linux parser look for [ports] and if not found, then look for [ss]; and similarly, [ifconfig] has [ip-addr] as its fallback (assuming "ip addr show" gives similar output - probably doesn't, but you get the idea)?
Minorly tangential, I think sar is more universally available these days than when the client scripts were first created. So I'm wondering if we should make better use of sar, perhaps even have a [sar] section of the client message, that is the first place that xymond goes when looking for statistics.
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 at 00:52, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
On 9/18/2019 8:05 AM, Zden?k Tlust? wrote:
Hello,
the script xymonclient-linux.sh is using commands like ifconfig, netstat, etc. These commands are marked as depreciated and some of the Linux distributions have removed them already. For example SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 has no support for netstat and ifconfig. The replacement are commands from iproute2 package like ip, ss, routel, etc. Are there any plan to replace depreciated commands with new ones?
Especially with SS and IP, it's something that's on the road map. Unfortunately, doing that in a backwards-compatible way will still keeping the 'linux' OStype/class 'linux' might prove difficult without a lot more text processing. (This flag is split on the receiving side for parsing out what client evaluations to run and how, since the output of SunOS, Linux, BSDs, and other *nixes can vary widely.)
One could either move current OS's to something like "linux-old", or have upgraded scripts under "linux-new", or do a lot of 'awk' calls in xymonclient-linux.sh to try to duplicate previous output more precisely. I'm not sure which is better there.
Regards, -jc
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