On 2/12/2016 1:44 PM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
On Fri, February 12, 2016 1:47 pm, John Thurston wrote:
I'm having difficulty with xymongrep, and it isn't related to 4.3.25
because I see the same behavior on 4.3.22.
If I use the command:
~/server/bin/xymongrep --debug --hosts=./server/etc/hosts.cfg *
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Have you tried escaping the '*'? It's possible your shell is eating it off
the command line.
Bingo! Thank you.
Now the issue is, xymongrep does not seem to be .default. aware. So if I have a noconn tag on a specific host, I can xymongrep for it. But if that noconn tag on a .default. line, nothing is found even if it affects a hundred hosts :( It is parsing enough to handle 'include' but not enough to handle '.default.'.
And what is up with its case-sensitivity?
On Solaris, a xymongrep for noprop* matches
"NOPROPRED::+msgs" and "nopropyellow:+msgs"
But a xymongrep for client* returns nothing, while a xymongrep for CLIENT* finds a whole bunch of hosts with upper-cased tags.
On Linux (4.3.17), the matching all appears to be case-insensitive.
I'm probably going to scrap trying to use xymongrep for the task at hand. I've lived this long without it, it won't hurt me to to a little longer :)
FWIW, the man page doesn't match the source code. man offers:
xymongrep [--noextras] [--test-untagged] [--web] [--net] [--loadhostsfromxymond] TAG [TAG...]
while the source shows xymongen also handling:
--help
--no-down
--version
--hosts
Maybe these are intentionally un-doumented, but --hosts is pretty darned useful.
Also FWIW, the --loadhostsfromxymond may not be port-aware. When I try to use it on my linux box (4.3.17), the debug output indicates it is trying to talk to the "Xymon daemon" on port 1984. It does not succeed because my xymon is listening on port 1985. When I then prefix the xymongrep with a xymoncmd, it seems to refuse to honor the --loadhostsfromxymond tag and insists on loading from the hosts.cfg.
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