March 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

recent.gif propagation
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, The *-recent-gif propagation does not seem to consider the "group-only" directive (bb-hosts). In following example, the top page displays a green-recent.gif for the "Backup" page but conn and nsr services are solid green (green.gif) on the status page for host1 and host2. On another view showing all local checks, it appears that the "memory" check on host1 displays a green-recent.gif. Example: page adminBackServ Backup title Administrative Services group-only conn|nsr Backup 1.2.3.4 host1 # 1.2.3.5 host2 # Is there a way to tell Hobbit to reflect the recent status changes on upper pages for the displayed checks only? Thanks. Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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disk graph strangeness
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello, I've a host that's picking up all kinds of oddness on its disk graph. The data seems correct, this is from client data: [df] Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda2 1951832 659176 1292656 34% / /dev/mapper/root_vg-var 5242716 4405508 837208 85% /var /dev/mapper/root_vg-usr 2097084 1328888 768196 64% /usr /dev/mapper/root_vg-home 12582524 8865656 3716868 71% /home /dev/mapper/root_vg-varlocal 131067996 117865944 13202052 90% /var/local but the graph looks like this: I've never seen such bizarreness on one of my graphs. The last two lines are particularly creative. Any ideas how i can track this down?

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Alerting and delay outside office hours
by dortsen＠gmail.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi All, How do I set up alerting so that it will send alerts immediately between 07:00 and 22:00, but with a 15 minute delay (if the test still turns red) outside those hours. With BigSister I'm used to set up alerting in one file. But am I right that with Hobbit you might have to setup a few things in hobbit-alerts.cfg and in bb-hosts? Thanks! Dennis

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[hobbit] Critical Systems templates (for cloning)
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

In setting up templates in the Critical Systems section for cloning, is it possible to create a template for ALL tests. In other words, can I fill in the "Host" field as "Production hosts", and fill in the "Test" field as "*", so that I can set up a blanket template for all production hosts, for all tests? Or do I have no choice but to create individual templates for all the tests?

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remove sslcert test (included with the https test)
by dortsen＠gmail.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi All, I'm setting up Hobbit for the first time (v4.2.0) At the moment we're using Big Sister, but we're looking for something with better performance and ease of use. I have set up some tests on several hosts. One of the checks I'm using is the https check. That all works well, a green smiley is displayed. The neat thing with the https check is that it also checks the expirydate of your SSL certificate (sslcert test). Here's what I'm looking for: I want to remove the sslcert test for a certain number of hosts. We use a traffic manager that holds all the real SSL certificates, we're using a self signed, expired certificate on the hosts in question. Hobbit warns me with a red sslcert status that the certificate has expired. I know I can disable the the test (turns the smiley into a blue one), but that's not what I want. I have als tried to drop the sslcert test (server/bin/bb localhost "drop hostname sslcert") and add the NOCOLUMNS:sslcert tag for the host in question in the bb-hosts file. The NOCOLUMNS tag works for other statusses (white) but when a status is red, I can't seem to remove the sslcert test. It keeps coming back in a short while after I dropped the test with the bb command. Have I overseen something here? Thanks, Dennis

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Historical trends?
by kolbjorn.barmen＠uninett.no 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Is there a way to get a historical trend view? Typical monday situation, I came to work to find a host down, but it happened more than 48 hours ago. Would be nice if there was a way to get trends view for previous periods :) -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter

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Custom Graph Issue
by stl19847＠yahoo.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I cannot get the RRD file to be created. I have a script that polls a firewall via SNMP and returns the CPU usage. The test works fine and creates a column named "fwcpu". bb 127.0.0.1 "status firewall.fwcpu green $now_string \n\ncpu : $cpu" The output is as follows. Tue Mar 20 23:47:22 2007 cpu : 10 I modified TEST2RRD to the following. TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,fwcpu=ncv" I also added... NCV_fwcpu="cpu:GAUGE" Shut down hobbit and made sure that the hobbitd_rrd processes were gone. restarted it and I get nothing in the RRD folder for the device. I _DO_ get "hobbit graph ncv:fwcpu" showing up in my test pages. -- Stewart Larsen -- This sig intentionally left blank, other than this text explaining that if not for this text, this sig would be blank.

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cosmetic: FONT-tag for "--pagetitle-links" option of bbgen
by eckert.thomas＠gmx.net 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi all, if "--pagetitle-links" is used in BBGENOPTS to make the page title link to (sub-) pages too the color of the created link is not set correctly. This results in the link showing up with the default link color and getting the "visited-color" after the first click on it. (tested with firefox-2.0.0.2, firefox-1.0.2 The attached trivial patch (against vanilla 4.2.0) fixes this by adding the needed FONT-tags. Thanks for hobbit! Thomas -- "The inside of my head was exploding with fireworks. Fortunately, my last thought turned out the lights when it left." --- Calvin

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hobbit-alert.cfg; PAGE filter with same host on multiple subpages?
by jorgen.lindqvist＠vattenfall.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi all! I have the same hosts defined on multiple pages/subpages and want to use the PAGE rules for defining alerts in hobbit-alerts.cfg This only seems to work for the "first" page, however, which is quite frustating... bb-hosts: page One subparent One A A 1.2.3.4 switch_1 # testip 1.2.3.5 switch_2 # testip 1.2.3.6 switch_3 # testip page Two subparent Two B B 1.2.3.4 switch_1 # noconn 1.2.3.6 switch_3 # noconn hobbit-alerts.cfg PAGE=One/A MAIL admin_one at foo.com PAGE=Two/B MAIL admin_two at foo.com The info column of switch_1 clearly tells me that Page/subpage is One/A and Two/B, however I can only see the alerting to admin_one at foo.com. Removing switch_1 from the One/A section enables my alerting to admin_two at foo.com. Is this a limitation in the Hobbit alerting? Something unforeseen? Or am I not thinking straight? Getting this to work would REALLY simplify my existance. I am implementing Hobbit Monitor in a quite big environment I believe... So far i have 832 switches in my bb-hosts file (takes 46 seconds to ping, according to bbtest). Not started on our servers yet. (No, I don't do this manually - I have designed a nice web GUI (PHP/MySQL) for all configurations ;) The best of regards to you all Jörgen Lindqvist Varberg, Sweden

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Steve Aiello's Icons
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I've added Steve Aiello's icons to The Shire...I've added a few new branches to the site for those who haven't been there in a while Reports, Alerts and Add-ons (some of these are anxiously awaiting your additions). =G=

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