On 1/16/2019 2:23 PM, Adam Thorn wrote:
On 16/01/2019 22:44, John Thurston wrote:
With my inability to make the client work in 'local-mode' (see my note to the list of Jan 3), I'm trying to make it work in its default mode. . . . How do I trim this client's behavior down to size?
The way xymon works is that in the default "central" mode, a script runs periodically on the client which sends data to the "central" server where it's then parsed to generate the various test results. The message sent to the server contains the output of e.g.
/usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient-linux.sh
or more generally whichever OS-specific script in that directory is executed by xymonclient.sh. So in terms of "pumping [data] across the network": your client sends whatever that script outputs.
I'm quite comfortable adjusting what tests results are displayed. I was hoping there was some way to configure what the client sends, as I don't want all that stuff collected (nor sent plaintext across my network).
It looks like I'll need to hack the script, and see how the parser on the xymon server reacts.
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