I've been looking in the man pages and can't find what I'm looking for. I hope I'm just looking with my eyes closed.
Some applications (ISC BIND is one that comes to mind) provide a dry-run or syntax-checking function for their config and data files. For BIND, I can run named-checkconf to test the syntax of the application configuration files. I also have named-checkzone which will confirm a zone file passes muster.
Is there such a function available for the Xymon tasks or hosts?
Do things because you should, not just because you can.John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Enterprise Technology Services Department of Administration State of Alaska
On Thu, August 27, 2015 12:26 pm, John Thurston wrote:
I've been looking in the man pages and can't find what I'm looking for. I hope I'm just looking with my eyes closed.
Some applications (ISC BIND is one that comes to mind) provide a dry-run or syntax-checking function for their config and data files. For BIND, I can run named-checkconf to test the syntax of the application configuration files. I also have named-checkzone which will confirm a zone file passes muster.
Is there such a function available for the Xymon tasks or hosts?
For tasks.cfg (or clientlaunch.cfg), run xymonlaunch with the --dump command to get what is effectively a config check.
For xymond_client or xymond_alert, use --dump-config -- errors will be sent in STDERR, IIRC.
Since hosts.cfg doesn't have a single unified syntax (for tests and whatnot), there's a limit to the direct syntax checks one can do while loading it. Truly egregious issues might be seen from xymonnet, xymongen, or xymond in --debug mode, however.
HTH,
-jc
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