January 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Graphs, iostat, nan
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

I have an iostat2 test that runs and graphs wait & busy times of nfs mounts and disk mounts. However, I have a lot of nan's in the data due to the nfs mount or disk mount has no wait or busy times. Is there a way when you display the graph to tell it not to show any data with nan? It lists every partition with the "NaN" values. I only want to see the data that has values. James

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Cause of hobbitclient.log entry
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Where would I look for the cause of: 2008-01-02 13:09:32 Could not start task hobbitclient using command '/usr/libexec/hobbit/client/hobbitclient.sh': No such file or directory (It's missing the /bin after ../client) Thanks, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres Dr. Fax: (254)741-5777 Waco, Texas 76701 _____________________________________________________ This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at PrivacyAct at ailife.com.

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Display XML content check results
by lee＠leegarner.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Is there a flag to have the content displayed on the hobbit page for an http content check? The content is XML, and doesn't show anything unless the page source is shown. Perhaps a way to add <pre> and </pre> to the output? Thanks. Lee.

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Need to monitor IPX/SPX (Novell) based systems
by Ken.Cooper＠Intelliverse.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Has anyone been blessed with this tasks? If so how did to accomplish it? I have had no luck locating a client, and really do not want to attempt to write one. Can anyone help? Thanks Ken Cooper Sr. NOC Technician Phone|770.663.5079 ken.cooper at intelliverse.com

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Recovery notification sent on transition from red to clear?
by lee＠leegarner.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

I have an http content check running which works fine. It shows red if the content is wrong, clear if it can't be obtained due to a conn failure. But it sends a recovery alert for the content check when conn fails: ---------------------- Subject: Hobbit host.domain.com:check recovered clear Wed Jan 2 00:51:23 2008: Failed to get webpage An error occurred while testing <a href="http://site/url">URL http://site/url</a> No output received from server ---------------------- When the conn check again works, another critical notification is sent for the content check. Doesn't it seem that a transition to "clear" shouldn't be considered a "recovery"? Thanks. Lee.

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[BUG] hobbitd_alert fails to execute script on large message
by charles.goyard＠orange-ftgroup.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hi, I encounter a serious problem when using the following rule in hobbit-alerts.cfg : EXSERVICE=_site SCRIPT=/usr2/hobbitlocal/bin/send_to foobar FORMAT=text RECOVERED REPEAT=6m when BBALPHAMSG is large (ie a "procs" or "ports" on a very busy box), the log says : 2007-12-17 16:31:01 Could not launch paging script /usr2/hobbitlocal/bin/send_to: Argument list too long The problem is with execlp in do_alert.c. I could use a different format (sms) for columns such as ports/procs and other verbose ones, but it's not foolproof. (in the meantime, I'll do this anyway). Maybe a safer approach would be to add a SIZELIMIT=xxx in hobbit-alerts.cfg or automatically crop the BBALPHAMSG depending on the local OS prior to execlp(). Regards, -- Charles Goyard - charles.goyard at orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31 Orange Business Services - online multimedia // ingénierie

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Cannot get alerts for message files
by ecroft＠openratings.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

I am trying to get alerting for message files. I have checked the archives, but found nothing in there. I have tried various configurations. The two I have set up with hobbit clients right now are set up, one as a client with the server controlling, the other as a client that pushes its info. Neither seems to work. The client set to push (nodens), does not send any message file data and the indicator stays clear and the comment says: The client did not report any logfile data. On the client set so that the server controls (sirona), there is information for the logs, but nothing triggers a yellow or red. No entries in /var/log/messages No entries in /var/log/secure Full log /var/log/messages Jan 2 08:27:03 sirona ecroft: NOTICE Full log /var/log/secure Jan 2 07:56:19 sirona sshd[27841]: Connection closed by 10.0.14.249 Jan 2 08:01:20 sirona sshd[27897]: Connection closed by 10.0.14.249 Jan 2 08:06:21 sirona sshd[27943]: Connection closed by 10.0.14.249 The client-local.cfg file on the server has these entries. [sirona.hq.openratings.com] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger NOTICE trigger WARNING log:/var/log/secure:10240 ignore "Connection closed by" trigger BREAKIN [nodens.hq.openratings.com] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger NOTICE log:/var/log/secure:10240 ignore "Connection closed by" trigger BREAKIN The hobbit-clients.cfg file on the server has: HOST=sirona.hq.openratings.com LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* NOTICE COLOR=red HOST=nodens.hq.openratings.com LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* NOTICE COLOR=red DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. #LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* NOTICE COLOR=red UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 91 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 PROC cron On nodens I have in the client-local.cfg [nodens.hq.openratings.com] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger NOTICE #ignore MARK log:/var/log/secure:10240 ignore Martian trigger BREAKIN #trigger TESTING And in the localclient.cfg HOST=nodens.hq.openratings.com PROC cron DISK /data1 96 99 LOG /var/log/messages NOTICE COLOR=red LOG /var/log/secure BREAKIN COLOR=red LOG /var/log/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 LOG /var/log/messages NOTICE COLOR=red LOG /var/log/secure BREAKIN COLOR=red clientlaunch.cfg on nodens is: [msgcache] DISABLED ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/msgcache --no-daemon --pidfile= $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/msgcache.pid LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/msgcache.log # The main client task [client] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m # ORCA data collector. This is an experimental add-on module, # the data sent by this module are not processed by Hobbit 4.2. [orcadata] DISABLED ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/orcahobbit --orca=/usr/local/orca/orcallator LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log

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Happy New Year!
by jonescr＠cisco.com 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Just thought I would wish a Happy New Year to Henrik and all our fellow Hobbit-users :-) Thanks to all for making Hobbit so great, now and in 2008 (hey that ryhmes!)! -Charles

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SNMP traps
by kevinmhanrahan＠hotmail.com 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi, Can hobbit send SNMP traps to other servers? thanks in advance kh

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How do I monitor a process that is running on Windows?
by Keller_Liora＠emc.com 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hi, I have a process "inetinfo.exe" running on a Windows server. I would like to monitor it, but when I put it in hobbit-clients.cfg, it does not see it as a process. How can I monitor "inetinfo.exe" process? Thanks, Liora

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