On Mon, November 10, 2014 7:41 pm, Jersey Man wrote:

Hello

I am trying to use Xymon client to get software information from the server its running on. For example, Java version, openssl version etc and also our custom application information. I can write a script in .../local and it shows up in the client data on the server but how to do I use it. I would ideally like to see if I can stick it into the 'info' column but adding it as another column would be fine too.. I tried to scour Google but couldnt really find anything..

For these purposes, think of xymon as a more generic communications bus. If you have a custom script in ../local/ and it already throws data into the client message, you can retrieve it with the "clientlog" command:

[root at rhel6-x86-64 /]# xymon localhost "clientlog rhel6-x86-64.build section=uptime" [uptime] 12:27:53 up 20 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02

If you want to make individual use of the data, a client listener which, similar to xymond_client, takes client messages, evaluates with your own logic, and generates status messages for re-injection back into xymond, is your simplest bet. Alternatively, you can perform lots of clientlog queries and read data back in that way.

HTH,

-jc