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Two servers from one agent

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list Neil Simmonds · Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:08:51 -0000 · 
I've got a requirement to run an agent reporting to 2 separate servers. It's
a BBWin agent and is actually on a server belonging to our partner company
but because we support that particular system we need it to report to our
Xymon server as well as theirs. We run all our agents in Central mode so I'm
wondering what the implications of that are when sending to 2 servers like
this. 

 
Will it just pick up the config files from the first server or will it pick
both up?
list Jeremy Laidman · Fri, 6 Feb 2015 23:07:50 +1100 · 
If you define XYMSRV=0.0.0.0 and use XYMSERVERS to list the two Xymon
servers, then my understanding is that the client will send client data to
both, in the order listed, and then keep the config from the last one.
This is on a UNIX client, and I don't know if it's the same for BBWin.
Also, I might have imagined it for the UNIX client, and I can't find any
evidence to support my memory.

I would say, test it and see.  Please report back what you find.

J


On 31 January 2015 at 02:08, Neil Simmonds <user-feff97fabd3d@xymon.invalid>
▸ quoted from Neil Simmonds
wrote:

I’ve got a requirement to run an agent reporting to 2 separate servers.
It’s a BBWin agent and is actually on a server belonging to our partner
company but because we support that particular system we need it to report
to our Xymon server as well as theirs. We run all our agents in Central
mode so I’m wondering what the implications of that are when sending to 2
servers like this.


Will it just pick up the config files from the first server or will it
pick both up?
list Japheth Cleaver · Fri, 6 Feb 2015 22:49:12 -0800 ·
▸ quoted from Jeremy Laidman

On Fri, February 6, 2015 4:07 am, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
If you define XYMSRV=0.0.0.0 and use XYMSERVERS to list the two Xymon
servers, then my understanding is that the client will send client data to
both, in the order listed, and then keep the config from the last one.
This is on a UNIX client, and I don't know if it's the same for BBWin.
Also, I might have imagined it for the UNIX client, and I can't find any
evidence to support my memory.

I would say, test it and see.  Please report back what you find.

J


On 31 January 2015 at 02:08, Neil Simmonds <user-feff97fabd3d@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

I’ve got a requirement to run an agent reporting to 2 separate
servers.
It’s a BBWin agent and is actually on a server belonging to our
▸ quoted from Jeremy Laidman
partner
company but because we support that particular system we need it to
report
to our Xymon server as well as theirs. We run all our agents in Central

mode so I’m wondering what the implications of that are when sending
to 2
servers like this.


On the Unix client this is correct, and nearly all bits of the xymon code
base will work this way. Messages can be classified either as "send to
all", "send to all, but only display returned data from the last server",
or "only send to the last server."

Raw client messages fall into the middle catagory, so this should work as
expected for you - at least if it were the unix client.

Hopefully BBWin works similarly, but I can't say for certain. If it
doesn't one option would be to set up a xymonproxy service and send your
singular client report to that. When configured with multiple destination
servers, it should function as you've desired here.

HTH,

-jc