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How do I update xymon client's configuration file from xymon server ?

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list T.J. Yang · Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:01:35 -0600 ·
I am trying out clientudpate and plan to document the details with examples here,
 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#How_do_I_update_xymon_client.27s_configuration_file_from_xymon_server_.3F
Please help edit this howto wiki if you have been there  and done that.
 
Thanks
 
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list Sanu Mathew · Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:42:21 +0530 ·
All,

Is it also possible if i would want to update only
/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg for all clients from the hobbit
server?

Regards,
Sanu
quoted from T.J. Yang

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:31 AM, T.J. Yang <user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I am trying out clientudpate and plan to document the details with
examples here,

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#How_do_I_update_xymon_client.27s_configuration_file_from_xymon_server_.3F
Please help edit this howto wiki if you have been there  and done that.

Thanks


T.J. Yang


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list Josh Luthman · Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:16:47 -0500 ·
Why would you need to update that client?

Whatever it is, there is no built in way for the Xymon server to modify
config files of the clients, sorry!

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quoted from Sanu Mathew


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Sanu Mathew <user-648ac91bf759@xymon.invalid> wrote:
All,

Is it also possible if i would want to update only
/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg for all clients from the hobbit
server?

Regards,
Sanu

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:31 AM, T.J. Yang <user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I am trying out clientudpate and plan to document the details with
examples here,

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#How_do_I_update_xymon_client.27s_configuration_file_from_xymon_server_.3F
Please help edit this howto wiki if you have been there  and done that.

Thanks


T.J. Yang


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list T.J. Yang · Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:47:07 -0600 ·
Why would you need to update that client?
See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Why_.3F
Whatever it is, there is no built in way for the Xymon server to modify config files of the clients, sorry!
Xymon server does support "client binary update" ,see  http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/clientupdate.1.html
I am thinking of only upgrade hobbitclients.cfg file in a newer version of xymon client binary tar ball got created on xymon server.

a possible workaround solution but better than login into thousand of machines to do the change.


tj
list T.J. Yang · Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:51:36 -0600 ·
Yes, If I can update hobbitclient.cfg file.


tj
quoted from Sanu Mathew


From: Sanu Mathew 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:12 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid 
Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I update xymon client's configuration file from xymon server ?


All,

Is it also possible if i would want to update only /home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg for all clients from the hobbit server?

Regards,
Sanu 

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:31 AM, T.J. Yang <user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I am trying out clientudpate and plan to document the details with
examples here,
 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#How_do_I_update_xymon_client.27s_configuration_file_from_xymon_server_.3F

Please help edit this howto wiki if you have been there  and done that.
 
Thanks
 

T.J. Yang


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list Greg L Hubbard · Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:05:57 -0600 ·
You *can* use the client update feature, but you will have to fiddle
with it.  The client update feature is designed to update the entire
client, not a single file.  But you can get the right result if you push
out the same client with the updated file.  Not sure what would happen
if you tried to push a tarball with only one file in it.  And you have
to have a different "package" for each operating system, and the
automatic updates don't work on all operating systems -- notably AIX.  I
have no idea if BBWin supports the automated update or not.
 
GLH
quoted from T.J. Yang


	From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid] 
	Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:52 PM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I update xymon client's
configuration file from xymon server ?
	
	
	Yes, If I can update hobbitclient.cfg file.
	 
	 
	tj

	From: Sanu Mathew <mailto:user-648ac91bf759@xymon.invalid>  
	Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:12 PM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid 
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I update xymon client's
configuration file from xymon server ?

	All,
	
	Is it also possible if i would want to update only
/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg for all clients from the hobbit
server?
	
	Regards,
	Sanu 
	
	On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:31 AM, T.J. Yang <user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
I am trying out clientudpate and plan to document the details
with
examples here,
 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOW
TO#How_do_I_update_xymon_client.27s_configuration_file_from_xymon_server
_.3F
quoted from T.J. Yang
Please help edit this howto wiki if you have been there  and
done that.
 
Thanks
 

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list T.J. Yang · Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:49:04 -0600 ·
I have no idea if BBWin supports the automated update or not.
from line 191 at http://bbwin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bbwin/trunk/Core/Agents/bbwinupdate/bbwinupdate.cpp?revision=94&view=markup
Looks like it is implemented ;) 
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list Sanu Mathew · Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:50:15 +0530 ·
Josh,

I would need to update as we are implementing a monitoring script on all
servers. And the only change to do is in the clientlaunch.cfg file.

Rgds,
Sanu

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Josh Luthman
quoted from Greg L Hubbard
<user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>wrote:
Why would you need to update that client?

Whatever it is, there is no built in way for the Xymon server to modify
config files of the clients, sorry!

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Sanu Mathew <user-648ac91bf759@xymon.invalid>wrote:
All,

Is it also possible if i would want to update only
/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg for all clients from the hobbit
server?

Regards,
Sanu

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:31 AM, T.J. Yang <user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I am trying out clientudpate and plan to document the details with
examples here,

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#How_do_I_update_xymon_client.27s_configuration_file_from_xymon_server_.3F
Please help edit this howto wiki if you have been there  and done that.

Thanks


T.J. Yang


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list T.J. Yang · Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:03:23 -0600 ·
Just discover one catch documented at here http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#What_need_to_be_done_.3F
 
All the external scripts on hobbit client need to be reviewed and to make sure they can send messages to two hobbit server.
T.J. Yang


From: user-5160b9f0c055@xymon.invalid: user-69bc1fe8bfc5@xymon.invalid: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:47:07 -0600Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I update xymon client's configuration file from xymon server ?
 
Why would you need to update that client?See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Why_.3F>Whatever it is, there is no built in way for the Xymon server to modify config files of the clients, sorry!
quoted from T.J. Yang
Xymon server does support "client binary update" ,see  http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/clientupdate.1.html
I am thinking of only upgrade hobbitclients.cfg file in a newer version of xymon client binary tar ball got created on xymon server.
 
a possible workaround solution but better than login into thousand of machines to do the change.
 
 
tj
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