WHile looking in the lib/stackio.c, I saw "directory" as a directive just like "include". So, in the client/etc directory I created a directory called clientlaunch.d and added the line "directory clientlaunch.d" to my clientlaunch.cfg file. I then created 3 files (mysql.cfg, raid.cfg, and postfix.cfg) in the clientlaunch.d directory.
Upon restart, all seems to work. I have not dfound this in the doc. Am I blind? In this a new feature that has not made it to the documentation yet?
My goal was to find an easy way to add/remove external scripts on a client without manually editing the clientlaunch.cfg. This appears to be the perfect answer. NOw I can simply add the code to the ext directory and the conf ot the clientlaunch.d directory and it all just works (I suspect I need to touch clientlaunch.cfg) so that it gets reprocessed to pick up new plugins or to forget about deleted ones.
Regardless -- If I understand this functionality correctly -- it looks like just what I need.
-- Isaac Traxler AIX,Linux Admin Louisiana State University traxler at lsu.edu High Performance Computing 225-578-1923 LONI AIX Clusters AIX, Linux Support
On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Isaac W Traxler wrote:
My goal was to find an easy way to add/remove external scripts on a client without manually editing the clientlaunch.cfg. This appears to be the perfect answer.
Yes, I would love to have this.
Can anyone say whether or not this safe to use or if it's still a work in progress? And in what version did it appear?
Thanks.
-- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>
It is in the source for 4.2.3 and the 4.3.0beta. I am a long time Big Brother user that recently moved to xymon -- so I cannot tell you how long this has been around.
-- Isaac Traxler AIX,Linux Admin Louisiana State University traxler at lsu.edu High Performance Computing 225-578-1923 LONI AIX Clusters AIX, Linux Support
On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Rob McBroom wrote:
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:20:42 -0400 From: Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com> Reply-To: xymon at xymon.com To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] directory directive
On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Isaac W Traxler wrote:
My goal was to find an easy way to add/remove external scripts on a client without manually editing the clientlaunch.cfg. This appears to be the perfect answer.
Yes, I would love to have this.
Can anyone say whether or not this safe to use or if it's still a work in progress? And in what version did it appear?
Thanks.
-- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>
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On 9/8/10 1:45 PM, "Isaac W Traxler" <traxler at lsu.edu> wrote:
[support for including all files from a directory] is in the source for 4.2.3 and the 4.3.0beta.
I think it's been longer than that. I recall a conversation between Henrik and Buchan some years ago... Due to the magic of Google...: http://www.xymon.com/archive/2006/08/msg00139.html
So, that feature has been around for about 4 years....
I also recall filing a bug because the globbing had some problems in an earlier version.
I am a long time Big Brother user that recently moved to xymon -- so I cannot tell you how long this has been around. On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Rob McBroom wrote:
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:20:42 -0400 From: Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com> Reply-To: xymon at xymon.com To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] directory directive
On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Isaac W Traxler wrote:
My goal was to find an easy way to add/remove external scripts on a client without manually editing the clientlaunch.cfg. This appears to be the perfect answer.
Yes, I would love to have this.
Can anyone say whether or not this safe to use or if it's still a work in progress? And in what version did it appear?
-- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281
In <EC9443C7-F411-4CE5-96F1-077830CD0215 at skurfer.com> Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com> writes:
On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Isaac W Traxler wrote:
My goal was to find an easy way to add/remove external scripts on a = client without manually editing the clientlaunch.cfg. This appears to be = the perfect answer.
Yes, I would love to have this.
Can anyone say whether or not this safe to use or if it's still a work = in progress? And in what version did it appear?
The "include" and "directory" facility is quite stable - directory inclusion was added back in 2006, according to my logs. It's probably not very well documented that this works in all configuration files. Including hobbitlaunch.cfg / clientlaunch.cfg . If anyone feel like sending updates for the man-pages, they would be very welcome.
I hadn't thought of it myself, actually.
Regards, Henrik
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Henrik "Størner" wrote:
In <EC9443C7-F411-4CE5-96F1-077830CD0215 at skurfer.com> Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com> writes:
On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Isaac W Traxler wrote:
My goal was to find an easy way to add/remove external scripts on a =
client without manually editing the clientlaunch.cfg. This appears to be = the perfect answer.
Yes, I would love to have this.
Can anyone say whether or not this safe to use or if it's still a work = in progress? And in what version did it appear?
The "include" and "directory" facility is quite stable - directory inclusion was added back in 2006, according to my logs. It's probably not very well documented that this works in all configuration files. Including hobbitlaunch.cfg / clientlaunch.cfg . If anyone feel like sending updates for the man-pages, they would be very welcome. Related to this, I would prefer an automatic system: 'if hobbitgraph exists and is a directory, include it in config file hobbitgraph.cfg'.
Stef
PS: Henrik, good to hear from you, it's some ago that you posted something...
In <201009231706.26996.stef.coene at docum.org> Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> writes:
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Henrik "St=F8rner" wrote:
The "include" and "directory" facility is quite stable - directory inclusion was added back in 2006, according to my logs. It's probably not very well documented that this works in all configuration files. Including hobbitlaunch.cfg / clientlaunch.cfg . If anyone feel like sending updates for the man-pages, they would be very welcome.
Related to this, I would prefer an automatic system: 'if hobbitgraph exists and is a directory, include it in config file hobbitgraph.cfg'.
I believe you can do that already, although it will probably result in some complaints being logged to the logfiles :-)
PS: Henrik, good to hear from you, it's some ago that you posted something.
Thanks ... I'm getting up to speed again. Some stuff going into the code repository also.
Regards, Henrik
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:29 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] directory directive
In <201009231706.26996.stef.coene at docum.org> Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> writes:
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Henrik "St=F8rner" wrote:
Related to this, I would prefer an automatic system: 'if hobbitgraph exists and is a directory, include it in config file hobbitgraph.cfg'.
I believe you can do that already, although it will probably result in some complaints being logged to the logfiles :-)
Mandrake has broken out their hobbitgraph file for some time, apparently, without any ill-effects. The perl one-liner below is what I use to split the distro .cfg files apart during an RPM install... (rpmbuild macros have been replaced with real paths):
install -d /etc/xymon/graph.d pushd /etc/xymon/graph.d/ perl -e "\$/='';while (<>) { \$_ .= <> while not (m#\n\[([\w+._-]+)\]#s || eof);open (FILE,'>',\$1); print FILE \$_; };" ../hobbitgraph.cfg popd
echo "#
The hobbitgraph.cfg file is read by the grapher module.
It controls which of the Xymon data streams to graph using RRD and
their respective RRD configuration options.
directory graph.d/" > /etc/xymon/hobbitgraph.cfg
Remember that the directory directive will parse the files it sees in alphabetical order.
The same logic, of course, works for clientlaunch and hobbitlaunch files. Hope this helps!
-jc
participants (6)
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dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com
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henrik＠hswn.dk
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jcleaver＠soe.sony.com
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stef.coene＠docum.org
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traxler＠lsu.edu