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  • Tentacle client binary for windows?

    Posted by qus on March 18, 2009 at 07:12

    Since tentacle seems to be easier to manage than SSH, I would like to use it to send messages from windows machines to Pandora server. But… there’s no windows binary to do this. Also I don’t know how to compile tentacle for Windows, there isn’t any MS Visual studio project or anything that could help…

    manu replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 12 Replies
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    It is integrated so you only need to set: (which is the default option)
    transfer_mode tentacle

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    What exactly do you mean by “integrated”?

    I want to send pandora’s xml file (let’s say blah.123456.data) from windows to unix. How do I do this?

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    Do you want the pandora_Agent to send its data files using tentacle, right?
    Just in pandora_agent.conf set:

    transfer_mode tentacle

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    Nope. I want the computer (which has no pandora agent installed) send XML file (that my monitoring script creates) to Pandora, as I do currently with ssh. But ssh is too much fuzz to configure on Windows…

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    Ah, then you can install pandora_agent and it will still tentacle_client to your path, so from CMD you can use: tentacle_client manually

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    March 18, 2009 at 10:46
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    Yeeeeessss, but HOW do I install it, if there’s no binary version for windows, and I am unable to build windows exe from sources?

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    Of course there’s a binary for Windows it just comes along with PandoraFMS Windows Agent.
    So, install PandoraFMS windows agent, and it will install tentacle client
    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155200&package_id=311814

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    I did that already. I can’t find tentacle client anywhere…

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    Open a CMD and write:
    tentacle_client

    What do you get?

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    aaaaw… My fault again. I was looking for tentacle-client, that’s why it didn’t find anything…

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    March 19, 2009 at 08:32
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    OK, but now… how do I use it?

    C:TEMP_pandora>tentacle_client -a war133 -v proba.32145235.data
    [log] Connected to war133
    [log] Request to send file ‘proba.32145235.data’
    [log] File proba.32145235.data sent

    And I don’t see the file in /var/spool/pandora/data_in… Or is it sent DIRECTLY to Pandora?

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    Yeah, as soon as it is sent to /var/spool/pandora/data_in it is processed by pandora_server