Xymon pull client data setup

Depending on the extent of the security requirements 'ssh-tunnel' may be an alternative.

In a nutshell it provides a convenient way to manage an ssh tunnel to clients (opening port 1984 there).

Upstream: https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/addons:ssh_tunnel?s[]=ssh&s[]=tunnel

Bashified-version with a few tweaks: http://www.it-eckert.com/software/patches/ssh-tunnel/

More background info on usage (incl. combining 1 tunnel with xymonproxy to provide a "hub" for a bunch of EC2 instances):

http://www.it-eckert.com/blog/2014/remote-site-monitoring-with-ssh-tunnel/
http://www.it-eckert.com/blog/2014/combine-ssh-tunnel-with-xymonproxy/

Thomas

Am 08.10.2014 02:22 schrieb Galen Johnson <user-fc632e705d24@xymon.invalid>:

also, did you add "pulldata" to the clients in your xymon hosts file.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Galen Johnson <user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I have this working for all my EC2 servers (same issue with security and opening firewall ports back inside).  Do you have port open and verified the msgcache service is running on the clients?  Also, check the xymon server logs...that's where I found the most helpful info.


=G=


From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Blake <user-fb8e66f0958d@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 2:17 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon pull client data setup
 
After getting the "piss off" response from security in regards to monitoring systems in the DMZ I need to configure about two dozen systems for pull vs the standard push.

While I have gone through the documentation I am still having a few issues and needed some help.

*Server Changes
=>updated server/etc/tasks.cfg

[xymonfetch]
        ENABLED
        ENVFILE /app/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
        CMD $XYMONHOME/bin/xymonfetch --server=10.1.1.73 --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.pid --interval=60 --log-interval=600 --debug
        LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonfetch.log

*Client Changes
=>updated server/etc/clientlaunch.cfg

[msgcache]
        ENABLED
        ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
        CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/msgcache --no-daemon --pidfile=$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.pid --debug --logfile=$XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcachedaemon.log --max-age=1200
        LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/msgcache.log

# The main client task
[client]
        ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
        CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/bin/xymonclient.sh
        LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTLOGS/xymonclient.log
        INTERVAL 5m

=>updated server/etc/xymonclient.cfg
XYMSRV="127.0.0.1"

Any help to get this working is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Blake