October 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Clients going Clear instead of Purple
by david＠stenhouseconsulting.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I monitor several remote networks and servers behind firewalls. I monitor the firewall with the testip tag to avoid DNS lookups, and I use the noping tag for clients behind firewalls. On a couple of occasions a client has stopped reporting and instead of all tests going purple, they go clear. I suspect that it has to do with the noping tag. Should this be happening? Do I have my bbhost file configured wrong? David Gilmore Consultant 401.453.6900 x12 [cid:image001.jpg at 01C8158D.DAA53010] ________________________________ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.

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never mind
by lebarber＠gmail.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Please ignore my last post. Bbproxy works fine with clientupdate if you just have the --bbdisplay arguments in the right order. My apologies, Larry Barber

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clientupdate and bbproxy
by lebarber＠gmail.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I'm having a problem with the interaction between clientupdate and bbproxy. On our test LAN I have an instance of bbproxy set up which forwards all the incoming messages to the development section of my main Hobbit server. The problem arises because bbproxy is unable to handle the clientupdate procedure. The logfetch.hostname.cfg file is not being created, which means that the "msgs" column is always clear. Is there anyway around this? You can't just place the logfetch...cfg file int the tmp directory, because clientupdate will just erase it before it determines that it has nothing to replace it with. Thanks, Larry Barber

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Backing up hobbit
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I am trying to create a backup of hobbit so in case the box is stolen, blown up, disappear, vanishes into thin air or even the boogey monster steals it, I can recover with a secondary box in a matter of minutes - hours at most. What I had done with BB was simply backup the entire user's home directory. I had this done every single morning. Each gzipped tar was a mere 15 megs. When I do a du -shc /home/user it reaches 1021M and in /home/user/server/bin/ du -shc core* I see 860M. What are these core* files? Does anyone have any suggestions on what to backup? I don't have the luxury of using tapes or another machine on the same LAN, so I am transporting this data over the Internet. While bandwidth is not a concern, I'd much rather not have to transport a gigabyte every morning =) Thanks in advance, Josh -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer

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Paging -- HTML to Text
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Can anyone point me to a good HTML to Text Converter? I'm sending out pages and the incoming message is HTML, but I want to send it out as text. I want to take all the HTML imbedded in it out. I'm looking on the web, but I can't seem to find anything that will allow me to pipe it through the command. Thanks.James

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Supermicro
by deger＠cobercafe.net 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hello Group, I am interested to see if anyone has done anything special with super micro product I was figuring NET SNMP and writing out a script to output the power settings and temperature, anyone have something like this in the works ?, I know deadcat dosnt I have search there a few times.

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Fail over?
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

So, how are others doing this? I have a server set up here in my primary data center. We're monitoring a few thousand hosts right now with a large number of custom externals. I've been tasked with setting up a fail-over or disaster response server in case our primary data center has issues. All of our clients are currently configured to send their messages to the IP address of our primary server. Now, I could just copy the bb-hosts file to the DR site, but then I would only get the network tests since the clients all report to the primary. Would I use bbproxy to do this? But if I install bbproxy on the primary, I won't be proxying the messages if my primary goes down... :( -- Stewart Larsen

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Alerts, HTML format
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hello, When the alerts get emailed and received. I see the html code along with the message. What needs to be done so that when the email is received, Outlook recognizes the email as HTML instead of text so that the HTML code is recognized. Thanks..James James Wade

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[hobbit] Monitor mailq
by johan.boye＠latecoere.fr 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Michael Nagel [mailto:Michael.Nagel at forsa.de] > Envoyé : mardi 23 octobre 2007 09:27 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : AW: [hobbit] Monitor mailq > > On http://www.deadcat.net/ you can find 3 scripts, > > bb-spam.sh > bb-mailq.sh > postfix.sh > Great, gonna check it out PS: why I can't see my message in the ML? CU > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: johan.boye at latecoere.fr [mailto:johan.boye at latecoere.fr] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 08:57 > An: hobbit at hswn.dk > Betreff: [hobbit] Monitor mailq > > > Hello, > > I'm monitoring an Antispam gateway (postfix + > mailscanner-SpamAssassin) via Hobbit. Data monitored are HDs, > CPU, memory & so on. I would like to monitor the "mailq" > (inbound & outbound emails). Is there a way to do so ? > > Thanks by advance, > > Johan > > > > "Les informations contenues dans ce message electronique > peuvent etre de nature confidentielles et soumises a une > obligation de secret. Elles sont destinees a l'usage exclusif > du reel destinataire. Si vous n'etes pas le reel > destinataire, ou si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci > de le detruire immediatement et de le notifier a son emetteur." > "The information contained in this e-mail may be privileged > and confidential. It is intended for the exclusive use of the > designated recipients named above. If you are not the > intended recipient or if you receive this e-mail in error, > please delete it and immediately notify the sender." > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > "Les informations contenues dans ce message électronique peuvent être de nature confidentielles et soumises à une obligation de secret. Elles sont destinées à l'usage exclusif du réel destinataire. Si vous n'êtes pas le réel destinataire, ou si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le détruire immédiatement et de le notifier à son émetteur." "The information contained in this e-mail may be privileged and confidential. It is intended for the exclusive use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient or if you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender."

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Monitor mailq
by johan.boye＠latecoere.fr 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hello, I'm monitoring an Antispam gateway (postfix + mailscanner-SpamAssassin) via Hobbit. Data monitored are HDs, CPU, memory & so on. I would like to monitor the "mailq" (inbound & outbound emails). Is there a way to do so ? Thanks by advance, Johan "Les informations contenues dans ce message electronique peuvent etre de nature confidentielles et soumises a une obligation de secret. Elles sont destinees a l'usage exclusif du reel destinataire. Si vous n'etes pas le reel destinataire, ou si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le detruire immediatement et de le notifier a son emetteur." "The information contained in this e-mail may be privileged and confidential. It is intended for the exclusive use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient or if you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender."

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