Hi.

From the documentation around the xymonclient.cfg config file it is supposed to set up the environment for client-side scripts so that they can get hold of environment variables such as XYMON and XYMSRV (BB & BBDISP in Hobbit days)

I've just moved from Hobbit to Xymon and I am getting errors on the results of my scripts because the environment variables I used in Hobbit are not defined in Xymon.

I think the reason is as follows:

In xymonclient.cfg under Compatibility Settings, BB is defined here:

BB="$XYMON"

Earlier on in the file XYMON is defined here:

XYMON="$XYMONHOME/bin/xymon" # The Xymon client "xymon" utility

And looking further back XYMONHOME is defined here:

XYMONHOME="$XYMONCLIENTHOME" # Directory for the Xymon client files

But XYMONCLIENTHOME is not defined anywhere I can find in xymonclient.cfg, which means ultimately BB is not defined. Therefore I get the following from my Perl scripts:

Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"BB"} in concatenation (.) or string at ./CurlFile.pl line 144.

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./CurlFile.pl line 144.

sh: 8: status Internet.Perf green Sat Sep 7 14:15:16 BST 2013 - OK

This string breaks the logic of the BB messaging and results in a RED alert on my monitoring.

I know that XYMONCLIENTHOME is defined in xymonserver.cfg as

XYMONCLIENTHOME="/home/xymon/client"

Am I right that I should define XYMONCLIENTHOME somewhere in xymonclient.cfg and that it should be the same as XYMONCLIENTHOME="/home/xymon/client" or is some other logic broken between xymonserver.cfg and xymonclient.cfg?

Cheers

Martin