On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:10 AM, oliver <ohemming at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jones, Elizabeth <Ejones at egov.com> wrote:

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Is it possible to send data directly to the xymon server from another server without having a xymon client sending it? We have some production servers where I am not comfortable installing the client because it wants packages that are not already installed on those servers. Can I have my own scripts send data directly?

It would probably be easier to use 'external' scripts on the server to go and grab the data via ssh. That way, you're only maintaining one set of scripts

Yep, done it that way too. Put ssh keys out on all the clients, then pipe the script over ssh. Catch the output and deliver to xymon. You'll want a non-expiring password on the clients. If it expires, ssh may not get in, even with keys.

Ralph Mitchell

It is possible to replace the compiled binaries with scripts - I have a bunch of client systems doing exactly that. Some functionality is lost, but so far that hasn't been a problem for me. On the other hand, I've gained the ability to deliver reports via secure https connection.

All you'll need is bash, cron & curl. I know I've posted about this before, but I'm not sure how much detail I gave. I won't be able to get a copy of the scripts cleaned up for distribution until sometime later today.

Ralph Mitchell

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jones, Elizabeth <Ejones at egov.com> wrote:

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Is it possible to send data directly to the xymon server from another server without having a xymon client sending it? We have some production servers where I am not comfortable installing the client because it wants packages that are not already installed on those servers. Can I have my own scripts send data directly?****

One pre-packaged script available is xymon-rclient.sh, at http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-rclient/

from http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2011-November/033076.html

HTH,

-jc

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jones, Elizabeth <Ejones at egov.com> wrote:

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Is it possible to send data directly to the xymon server from another server without having a xymon client sending it? We have some production servers where I am not comfortable installing the client because it wants packages that are not already installed on those servers. Can I have my own scripts send data directly?****

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you cannot just compile a ``xymon'' bin and drop it in on all the other servers?

then you could just use $ cat statusmsg.txt | $XYMON $XYMSRV "@"

The client can also be compiled completely statically (I've done it with dietlibc), so shouldn't pull in anything else really.

There are also ways to run the client without installing a local user, so you can run it with any unprivileged account that has SSH or cron access.

-jc