January 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

question about groups
by rleon＠racenter.com 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

I have a question. If I specify a group in the clients file and have a wildcard in the alerts file. I am still getting alerts even though I am not in the group. Is there a way for me not to get an alert for an fs if I am not in that group? And also if I disable an alarm to blue does that disable all disk tests or just for that fs? This is what I have. Hobbit-clients Dbfs GROUP=database ]hobbit-alerts Admins HOST=%^hp* SERVICE=conn,disk,bad_disk,procs MAIL me at mydomain.com GROUP=database MAIL mydb at mydomain.com Thanks Richard

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hobbit monitoring
by stef.coene＠docum.org 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hi, Some time ago I promised information about aix monitoring and possible updates to hobbit. We are going to use hobbit for monitoring, but most of the monitor scripts for AIX will be integrated in a custom written perl library that is also used for making and monitoring backups. And I can not publish the full library (I wrote it myself, but my boss will not be happy if I do this) and so I also can not publish the monitor scripts :( Same for trending, hobbit is not powerfull enough for our needs. And we don't have the C knowledge to change hobbit. One of the problems is that there is 1 rrd file / check. But we have checks where the number on 1 page we want to graph can change over time. Stef

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Passing passwords to HTTP checks
by David.Whitehouse＠talis.com 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Has anyone ever been able to pass a password to the http check that includes an '"@" character? We have tried escaping the @ with a "\", we have also tried single quoting the password. Eg password for example is @pple and username is root We have tried: http://root:\@pple at www.test.com <http://root/@pple at www.test.com> http://root:'@pple'@www.test .com Both of these fail. Regards D Whitehouse The very latest from Talis read the latest news at www.talis.com/news listen to our podcasts www.talis.com/podcasts see us at these events www.talis.com/events join the discussion here www.talis.com/forums join our developer community www.talis.com/tdn and read our blogs www.talis.com/blogs Any views or personal opinions expressed within this email may not be those of Talis Information Ltd. The content of this email message and any files that may be attached are confidential, and for the usage of the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, then please return this message to the sender and delete it. Any use of this e-mail by an unauthorised recipient is prohibited. Talis Information Ltd is a member of the Talis Group of companies and is registered in England No 3638278 with its registered office at Knights Court, Solihull Parkway, Birmingham Business Park, B37 7YB.

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Status Summary on Info Page
by michael_frey＠glic.com 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

I am running 4.2.0, with the allinone patch applied. I noticed on the Demo site that the Info page displays a nice 'Status Summary', below the 'Alerting' section and before the 'Disabled tests' section. My Info page does not have the 'Status Summary' section. How do I het this to display? Thanks, Michael Frey ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.

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[hobbit] # of filesystems displayed in "disk" column is 1, but 5 in trends column
by steve.aiello＠ge.com 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

>On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:41:11AM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote: >> I feel like I've solved this problem before, but if so, I can't remember >> how. :) >> >> I'm using some modified versions of the filerstats2bb perl scripts to >> collect data from my netapp filers, and ever since my upgrade from >> 4.1.2p1 -> 4.2.0, I no longer have 5 filesystems/graph displayed in the >> graph under the disk column. I do have 5/graph in the graph under the >> trends column, though. > >The "disk" column tries to count the number of entries in the disk >status message, and decides how many graphs to include based on that. >If you do a "view source" on the disk status webpage, you'll see a >"" string showing what count it arrived at. > >The "trends" column looks at what disk-RRD files exist; if you have some >filesystems that are not always reported, then there will be RRD-files >for these, but they will be missing from the disk status message - >hence the difference. Is there anything in the works to address this ? I ask because I have a few servers that are in a cluster. So Volumes can bounce back and forth between servers, when a failover occurs.

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Some PCRE assistance
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

I've checked the PCRE tutorial and several other sites and I can not find a good match to what I'm trying to do. I've also run several iterations through pcretest with no joy. I have a list of users (actually virtual machine names) with the heading 'UserID'. I would like to set up a regex to match any of them, except for the heading. Basically, to count the machines, but ignore the heading line. I've tried variations of "(!Userid|.*)" with no luck. Thanks. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

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exim monitoring
by matthew＠familycampground.org 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

I'm curious what people are using to monitor exim with hobbit. I know there is eximstats, that's good for generating reports. But I'm looking more for realtime reporting (amount sent/discarded/bounced/etc). Currently the only thing I monitor is the queue size.

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[hobbit] Some PCRE assistance
by craig＠cookitservices.com 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Can you post 3-4 lines of sample data (including your header line)? I suspect the .* is being greedy. Craig Cook -- Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services http://www.cookitservices.com

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[hobbit] Ports and Alerts
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Use the GROUP feature. HOST=%^(host1).* PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]7230)$" STATE=% min=1 max=160 TRACK=eb "TEXT=EB" GROUP=eb PORT "REMOTE=%([.:]1521)$" STATE=% min=1 max=600 TRACK=oracle "TEXT=Oracle" GROUP=oracle PORT "REMOTE=%([.:]6611)$" STATE=% min=0 max=600 TRACK=rb "TEXT=RB" GROUP=rb Then in your hobbit-alerts.cfg file add something like GROUP=eb MAIL $SYSADMINS REPEAT=20 RECOVERED GROUP=oracle MAIL $ORACLEADMINS REPEAT=20 RECOVERED GROUP=rb SCRIPT /usr/local/script/restart.rb rb I just threw in a couple examples above, alert whoever you need to or call a script to restart the process if needed. Trent Melcher Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Securities America Financial Corporation (402) 399-9111 x2774 tmelcher at saionline.com Securities America, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member NASD/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Securities America Advisors, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisory The text of this communication is confidential, and use by any person who is not the intended recipient is prohibited. Any person who receives this communication in error is requested to immediately destroy the text of this communication without copying or further dissemination. Your cooperation is appreciated. ________________________________ From: Guðmundur Ö. Ingvarsson [mailto:Gudmundur.Ingvarsson at landsbanki.is] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 3:42 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Ports and Alerts Hi, I'm trying to use the hobbit to send me an sms when ports are flaggin red. However I only want this some some of the ports of a host and not all. I'm unsure on how to filter that in the hobbit-alerts.cfg settings. Currently this is how it's set up HOST=%(host1|host2|host3).* SERVICE=ports COLOR=RED This is from my hobbit-clients.cfg HOST=%^(host1).* PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]7230)$" STATE=% min=1 max=160 TRACK=eb "TEXT=EB" PORT "REMOTE=%([.:]1521)$" STATE=% min=1 max=600 TRACK=oracle "TEXT=Oracle" PORT "REMOTE=%([.:]6611)$" STATE=% min=0 max=600 TRACK=rb "TEXT=RB" Can I define further the service bit to filter out the ports I don't want? I would only like to receive alerts in SMS for the remote ports. Guðmundur Örn Ingvarsson Landsbanki Íslands hf. Kerfisstjóri / Systems Engineer Upplýsingatæknisvið / Information Technology - UNIX Sími / Tel.: (+354) 410 6730 Farsími / Mobile: (+354) 820 5074 Fax: (+354) 410 3032 gudmundur.ingvarsson at landsbanki.is <mailto:gudmundur.ingvarsson at landsbanki.is> www.landsbanki.is <http://www.landsbanki.is/> Fyrirvari/Disclaimer http://www.landsbanki.is/disclaimer <http://www.landsbanki.is/disclaimer>

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Ports and Alerts
by Gudmundur.Ingvarsson＠landsbanki.is 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Hi, I'm trying to use the hobbit to send me an sms when ports are flaggin red. However I only want this some some of the ports of a host and not all. I'm unsure on how to filter that in the hobbit-alerts.cfg settings. Currently this is how it's set up HOST=%(host1|host2|host3).* SERVICE=ports COLOR=RED This is from my hobbit-clients.cfg HOST=%^(host1).* PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]7230)$" STATE=% min=1 max=160 TRACK=eb "TEXT=EB" PORT "REMOTE=%([.:]1521)$" STATE=% min=1 max=600 TRACK=oracle "TEXT=Oracle" PORT "REMOTE=%([.:]6611)$" STATE=% min=0 max=600 TRACK=rb "TEXT=RB" Can I define further the service bit to filter out the ports I don't want? I would only like to receive alerts in SMS for the remote ports. Guðmundur Örn Ingvarsson Landsbanki Íslands hf. Kerfisstjóri / Systems Engineer Upplýsingatæknisvið / Information Technology - UNIX Sími / Tel.: (+354) 410 6730 Farsími / Mobile: (+354) 820 5074 Fax: (+354) 410 3032 gudmundur.ingvarsson at landsbanki.is <mailto:gudmundur.ingvarsson at landsbanki.is> www.landsbanki.is <http://www.landsbanki.is/> Fyrirvari/Disclaimer http://www.landsbanki.is/disclaimer

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