WinPSClient - Client can't get local server name

In the 'xymonclient_config.xml' file have the server name as first entry.
This is on the server.

<XymonSettings>
  <clientname>someserver</clientname>
  <servers>xymonserver name or IP</servers>
...
</XymonSettings>

Tim Williams


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:13 AM Scot Kreienkamp <
user-9678697f1438@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi everyone,


I have one Win2008 32 bit server that I’m trying to install the
WinPSClient on.  When I try to install it I get this:


C:\Program Files\xymon>powershell.exe ./xymonclient.ps1 install

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

At C:\Program Files\xymon\xymonclient.ps1:934 char:81

+         if ($script:XymonSettings.clientlower -eq 1) { $clname =
$clname.ToLower <<<< () }

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (ToLower:String) [],
RuntimeException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull


Service "XymonPSClient" installed successfully!


So I set clientfqdn and clientlower to 0 which eliminated the errors but
the Xymon server never shows any information or ghost clients with the
server name.  To start troubleshooting I looked at the data file produced
by the client and found the server name is missing from the first line
produced by the client:


client .powershell powershell XymonPS


It looks like I could define it in the script, but every time the client
is updated by the Xymon server it will get overwritten as it doesn’t look
like there’s a way to define it in the config file.


Any help would be appreciated.  I’m not a Windows scripter.


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