NetXMS Support Forum

Quote from: lindeamon on August 30, 2011, 02:57:03 PM
i am sorry but i still do not fully understand what does it mean.
what are the addition configuration files ?
what do they include ?
do they include files need for action ?
are they like hp openview's instrumentations ?

Agent can have master configuration file (nxagentd.conf) and additional configuration files in include directory. On startup, agent reads all files from include directory and merges parameters from them with master config. Agent configuration policies can be used to deploy those additional config files to agents. You have to restart agents to apply those changes.

Policy functionality currently is very limited. I plan to ad more types of policies in the future - most important are log monitoring policies, instrumentation, and agent-based data collection.

Best regards,
Victor

I'll try to export some of my templates later today.

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Victor

That's a good idea. For now, I'll stick this topic and suggest to post templates here. When we will have some templates ready for publishing, I'llput them on web site.

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Victor

Hi!

There are no such option now. I will add it in 1.1.4.

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Victor

Hi!

You can export/import templates. Export is not implemented in Java console yet, so you should use legacy Windows console. Go to Tools -> Export configuration, add templates you wish to export, and press OK. You will get XML file which can be imported into another NetXMS server. For import, you can use both Java and old console. Go to Tools -> Import configuration, select XML file, and system will create appropriate template objects.

Best regards,
Victor

Hi!

Sorry, I don't fully understand question part about perfmon counters and they data. To clarify things: there are two types of communication between server and agent - polls and traps. For data (i.e. DCI defined on the node) server uses polling. For async events - like new event log record - agent generates traps. So, performance data is lost when there are no connection between server and agent (which is not very good, and I'm thinking of adding something similar to HP Operations policies to enable agents to collect data without connection with server - but for now it is as it is). Traps, however, are kept in memory until communication with the server is restored - so, if agent was not restarted, it will send all pending traps as soon as server reconnects.

Best regards,
Victor

Could you please post your netxmsd.conf? Also, try to run netxmsd from command line - will it start?
If you are using Windows authentication for connecting to SQL server, the problem may be with access rights to database of account used to run the service.

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Victor

Hi!

That's strange. Just checked it on my development server, and commands with parameters enclosed in double quotes works just fine. What server version you are using? Also, can you determine what parameters are passed to your program?

I use the following small test program:


#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
FILE *f = fopen("c:\\temp\\s.log","w");
fprintf(f, "p1: %s\n", argv[1]);
fprintf(f, "p2: %s\n", argv[2]);
fprintf(f, "p3: %s\n", argv[3]);
fclose(f);
return 0;
}


and for action with command

c:\\source\\s.exe "first par" "second par" "third par"

got correct output in c:\temp\s.log:


p1: first par
p2: second par
p3: third par


Best regards,
Victor

Hi!

Yes, it can. Agent will send traps to all servers connected to it and listed in MasterServers parameter.

Best regards,
Victor

Hi!

Agent can send events to server. When you define matching rule in parser file, you can specify what event to send using <event> tag. You should specify NetXMS event code. For example, if you create new event, and it was assigned code 100003, you must add <event>100003</event> to your matching rule to send this event to server when matching line found. On server side, those events can be processed as usual in event processing policy.

Best regards,
Victor

Quote from: lindeamon on August 31, 2011, 09:08:49 AM
i want to install 2 servers that one will act as a full server and the other just for connecting and viewing alarms.
how do i do that ?
do i have to have 2 databases ?

Yes, you have to have two separate databases.

Quote from: lindeamon on August 31, 2011, 09:08:49 AM
does both servers have to collect data in order to for me to see status and dci values ?

Yes, if you need to see DCI values on both servers. However, if you only need to see alarms on second server, you can use event forwarding mechanism to forward events from primary server to secondary.

Quote from: lindeamon on August 31, 2011, 09:08:49 AM
how do i sync the nodes and containers between the servers ?

Unfortunately there are no object synchronization mechanism yet.

Quote from: lindeamon on August 31, 2011, 09:08:49 AM
do i have to define the same user on both servers rather then having just one ?

Yes, you have to maintain two user databases. You can simplify password management by using external RADIUS server for password checking, but you still need to create user accounts twice.

Best regards,
Victor

Hi!

No. It saves windows configuration, perspectives, etc. on local workstation. It's probably possible to store Eclipse workspace on the server, but I didn't dig so deep into it yet.

Best regards,
Victor

Hi!

Agent policies deploy additional configuration files into config include directory. Location of that directory determined by parameter ConfigIncludeDir in nxagentd.conf. Default value for this parameter on Windows is "C:\nxagentd.conf.d". I just checked it, and it looks like agent installer does not add correct ConfigIncludeDir to nxagentd.conf and does not create appropriate directory. Currently you should do it manually on all systems where you wish to deploy configs via policies. I'll fix it till next release.

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Victor

Hi!

So you wish to get something like "4.05 GB" instead of "4348654387"? Then your transformation script should looks like following:


($1 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024) . " GB"


And don't forget to change DCI type to "string"!

Best regards,
Victor

Hi!

It's not implemented yet. Added to feature requests.

Best regards,
Victor