External scripts for Xymon client on Xymon Server

This always confused me.
In beta2 I run the client tasks specified in client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg

in beta3 I run the client tasks specified in server/etc/tasks.cfg
it's even a note in tasks.cfg
# client tasks are configured here, apart from the normal builtin that runs from xymonclient.

I'm not sure which method is the correct one in beta2, the note in beta3 tells me that is the correct method for beta3.

-Roland

On 23/12/10 09:54 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

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On 12/22/2010 05:43 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:

The clientlaunch.cfg is in the client's etc dir, not the server etc dir.  Logs / tmp files will be under the client dir too.



Example, on a hobbit server there are both $hobbithome/{server,client} dirs.



client/ext/na2.sh



[client/etc] tail clientlaunch.cfg 

   

[NA2CPU]

        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg

        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/na2.sh

        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/na2.log

        INTERVAL 2m

Yes, that much I knew. OK, so I've taken another look at this. It looks

as if the external client scripts ARE running, but the data doesn't go

anywhere and there are no ghost clients. I've also checked what I

believe are all of the places that the port and server address are

defined to make sure this isn't all going someplace else.



One of my external scripts, for example, is a vmio script. You can see

it is running the commands needed to accomplish that:



   xymon  4976  4973  0 17:50:09 ?        0:00 vmstat 300 2

   xymon  4978  4975  0 17:50:09 ?        0:00 iostat -dxsrP 300 2



...however, about 6 months ago, these tests turned purple (to me, what

seems like by magic). The other external scripts (one that gets

temperature and one that does metastat for the SW raid) run too quickly

for me to tell what their story is, but they do not write anything to

the client log directory.



Anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot this?



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