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Summary of which tests run from client / server?

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list David Mills · Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:18:20 +0000 ·
All -

Sorry for my newbie question, but is there a summary of the default tests for a host, and whether they are run from the client side or the server side?

For example, we added a host to our config in hosts.cfg, but forgot to turn on the client scripts. Yet, "conn", "ssh", "ntp", etc. still appeared as monitored.

Thanks!

david

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list Shannon Anderson · Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:36:06 +0000 ·
Any test you place under host.cfg on xymon server is considered an server side test... anything dropped in analizses.cfg would be looking at data sent from client system(agent).
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Subject: [Xymon] Summary of which tests run from client / server?

All -

Sorry for my newbie question, but is there a summary of the default tests for a host, and whether they are run from the client side or the server side?

For example, we added a host to our config in hosts.cfg, but forgot to turn on the client scripts. Yet, "conn", "ssh", "ntp", etc. still appeared as monitored.

Thanks!

david
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
XXX-XXX-XXXX

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list Ryan Novosielski · Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:36:12 -0500 ·
I don't know of one, but I've also never needed it as it is pretty obvious -- basically non-network tests run from the client. Anything that -- barring SNMP or something -- you'd have to log into the server to check. Anything that tests a network service by and large can come over the network from the server.
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Subject: [Xymon] Summary of which tests run from client / server?

All –

Sorry for my newbie question, but is there a summary of the default tests for a host, and whether they are run from the client side or the server side?

For example, we added a host to our config in hosts.cfg, but forgot to turn on the client scripts. Yet, “conn”, “ssh”, “ntp”, etc. still appeared as monitored.

Thanks!

david
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-eb64c112f0e9@xymon.invalid