XYMOND_DISTRIBUTE(8)

💖 xymond_distribute(8) 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is a page from the System Manager's Manual, and it's all about xymond_distribute, the little worker bee that keeps your Xymon servers in sync. 🐝✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

xymond_distribute — a xymond worker module for distributing commands. it literally just forwards the vibes, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xymond_channel --channel=enadis xymond_distribute [options]

that's the whole entrance, she doesn't walk in alone — she rides in on xymond_channel.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So xymond_distribute is a worker module for xymond, which means she does not run solo — she's normally launched via the xymond_channel(8) program. iykyk. 💅

You want her in your life if you've got multiple Xymon servers running in a master/slave configuration. She lives on the master server and her whole job is catching the "drop", "rename", "enable" and "disable" messages that xymond sends out. Then she forwards those bad boys to all the other Xymon servers as standard xymon messages. 🌈

Like, imagine a user on the master Xymon server disables a red status. xymond_distribute is gonna forward that to the other Xymon servers so the change happens everywhere. one change, all servers, main character energy honestly. 👑

⚠️ NOTE: xymond_distribute does not check to see if a message has already been forwarded, so you can easily create forwarding loops. bestie. bestie please be careful. 😭 that's a real one, fr fr.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --peer=HOSTNAME — the peer that messages are forwarded to. Got more than one peer? Just repeat this option, she can hold all of them. 🫶
• --debug — enable debugging output. turn it on when you wanna see what's actually going on in there. 🔍

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

xymond_channel(8), xymond(8), xymon(7) — go read those too, they're iconic. 📚💜

and that's the tea, babe ☕✨ this page comes to you from Xymon, Version 4.3.30: 4 Sep 2019 — yes she's a little vintage but she still slays. mwah 💋