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File Monitoring

list Jeremy Laidman
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:07:41 +1100
Message-Id: <user-f474b7be8128@xymon.invalid>

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Steve Holmes <user-ec1bf77b1b44@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Ok see, this is real similar to the problem I'm having, except I can't get
it to work (Xymon 4.2.3).

My debian hosts are sending the following:

client xxxx.xxxxx.org.linux linux

The bit after the hostname is used to define the OS type.  This is
obtained, at the client, from the lower-cased output of "uname -s", but can
be overridden by defining in xymonclient.cfg by setting SERVEROSTYPE.  See
the man page for xymonclient.cfg for info.  If you add
"SERVEROSTYPE=debian" into xymonclient.cfg (and restart xymon), then you
should get your client data showing this:

client xxxx.xxxxx.org.debian linux

I haven't tried this, but it might do what you want.

Our [debian] servers keep some files in a different location than our
other Linux servers (Redhat) so the Debian servers get "File is missing"
errors and I have to disable the test to prevent the warning from showing
up.

I have a global [linux] section, and per-host definitions where they
deviate.  It's a bit of a hassle replicating the same definitions for a
bunch of identical hosts, but I only have to set it up once per host.

J