I have verified that the hostnames match from the hosts.cfg on the Xymon server. Here is the first 10 lines of the msg.<hostname>.txt from the BBWin client (Client Data show available) client <hostname>.bbwin win32 [osversion] Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600) [cpu] up: 8 days, 2 users, 55 procs, load=13% CPU states: total 13% cpu00 12.7% Here is the first ten lines from the msg.<hostname>.txt that does not report to Xymon. client <hostname>.bbwin win32 [osversion] Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard EditionService Pack 2 (build 3790) 32-bit [cpu] up: 2 Days, 7 users, 89 processes, load=51% CPU states: total 51% cpu00 31% cpu01 56% I wrote a vbscript that captured the StdOut from the BBWinCmd.exe. Here is what I was getting: ===Begin Output==== bbdisplay defined to : <xymon server> port defined to : 1984 Sending data ... hostname defined to: <hostname> 'Note: correct hostname displayed. Sending to <xymon server> : data <hostname>.Collector client ====End of Output==== and the script would exit. After your comment about "Client data should come in as a client message rather than data or status." I went back and executed bbwincmd as : bbwincmd <xymonserver>:<port> uploadmessage msg.<hostname>.txt. and the xymon server is not showing the Client Data available. Thank you. On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:

Have you checked your ghost report? Perhaps it's being rejected due to a hostname mismatch.

Are you sending a client message? Client data should come in as a client message rather than data or status. See "man xymon" for the format. Perhaps you could show us the first 10 lines of the message.<hostname>txt files?

You could run something like this: sudo -u xymon xymoncmd xymond_channel --channel=client sed -n '/^@@client/,+10p' " to see if the client messages is being received and processed by Xymon. This prints the first 10 lines of every client message.

J

On 10 May 2013 08:31, Scott Post <sjpostsr at gmail.com> wrote:

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How to get client data to Xymon server using BBwincmd?

I have BBWin installed on a Test PC and it reports to my Xymon server just fine. When I view the client on the Xymon Server, I have Client Data available at the bottom of my tests. This is same contents as the msg.<hostname>.txt in the tmp directory

However, I have another system that I am testing on at this time, I can't install BBWin on, but I have a series of vbscripts that I am running that gather the same data and write out a msg.<hostname>.txt for that system.

From what I have read and understand, I can use the BBwincmd.exe to upload that msg.<hostname>.txt to the Xymon server. For whatever reason, I can not get the client data to show up for this other system.

I have compared the two msg.<hostname>.txt from each PC and the are basically identical in format.

I have looked at BBWinCmd /? and I believe that BBWinCmd <bbdisplay>:<port> uploadmessage <filename> is the correct option, but the Xymon server never shows Client Data for the second host.

If I have the scripts, run BBWinCmd status <hostname> <test> <status> <reportdata>, all the information displays on the Xymon server just fine.

Can someone please help point me in the right direction?

Thanks

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