November 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

availibility report in pdf
by stef.coene＠docum.org 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi, Just wondering, has anyone a script/program/idea for a availability report in pdf? The generated availibility report from the hobbit site is nice, but I need to have (at least my boss want it) a pdf report of some selected tests (pings and netwerk tests). He wants it in pdf so he can print it and take use it on the SLA follow-up meetings where stuff like availibility and helpdesk reponse times are evaluated. He was also concerned about maintenance windows. If an error occured during the maintance window, it should be flagged or reported separated. A perfect report would be a pie chart or even simple numbers with colors per your / month / week of some selected tests. And this in a pdf that my boss (watch out, very important) can generate easily from the hobbit website. I can script it myself (based on the pdf report generator discussed before), but I don't want to reinvent the whele. Stef

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[hobbit] New section for solaris
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

That reminds me. V4.13 has just been released. # 4.13 - Changed temperature check for 210 & 240 # now looks for non "okay" status # Added support for T2000 # Updated temperature check for v1280/E2900 # Increased default temperature thresholds for Netra-T12 I would question the value of simply sending prtdiag output to display. It would not be trivial to recode the bb-prtdiag.sh script into C code and embed in the hobbit server program. Anyone is welcome to do it though. Oh, it runs fine on Solaris 10 for me, I have not heard of anyone having issues with it. The only change you may need to make is use nawk. #AWK="/usr/bin/awk" AWK="/usr/bin/nawk" Craig

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[hobbit] Xymon Themes
by ctg24＠admin.cam.ac.uk 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi, If a new theme is being considered, as well as a logo, I'd like you to see what our current hobbit installation looks like (see attached). I like the fact that the display is clear at a distance on the default hobbit look - the black background really makes things stand out more than a white background - so I haven't changed that aspect of it. I've just changed the icons and the layout somewhat. The black background lends hobbit a different feel to its competitors out there at the moment (big sister, nagios etc) and (I think) makes the display clearer - I would be keen to retain that. Also (and I think someone else has mentioned this) please consider colour blindness in any new theme. Two of my fellow sysadmins are red-green colour blind. The current default is good because it uses saturated colours and animated/shaped icons despite its basis on red, green and yellow. Finally, I would like to mention that it would be really really nice if a future version of hobbit made more use of CSS and was a little more themer-friendly. Best regards, Chris. > I put some info about Xymon Themes that I know on hobbitmon/sandbox/themes > http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/sandbox/themes/ > tj

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snapshot 2008-11-14 zlib version is too old
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi ! Have i got something forgotten or not observed .. With the new snapshot's i can't compile it under Scientific Linux 4 (RHEL4) ... with an old snapshot from April it works ... checking for zlib ... Found ZLIB include files in /usr/include Found ZLIB libraries in /usr/lib zlib version 1.2.1.2 Your zlib version is too old, requires version 1.2.3 or later ZLIB version too old, must be at least version 1.2.x ... i remember a problem from September Subject :Latest stable snapshot? And the last answer was from Henry > In /usr/include/zlib.h add the following to the #include's: > > # define ZLIB_VER_MAJOR 1 > # define ZLIB_VER_MINOR 2 > >Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:48:08 +0000 (UTC) >From: Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> >Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk >To: hobbit at hswn.dk >Newsgroups: lists.hobbit >Subject: Re: [hobbit] Latest stable snapshot? > >The ZLIB_VER_MAJOR/MINOR macros apparently are a Linux- or >Debian-addition. >I've updated the test-zlib.c module to use the standard ZLIB_VERNUM macro >instead. So it should work now with a standard zlib installation. .. with Scientific Linux 5 (RHEL5) it works ... .. is it my personal problem ? cheers, Martin

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how to monitoring jboss
by cabedogni＠gmail.com 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi all i'm running hobbit 4.2 and i need to monitoring jboss , both , the hobbit and the jboss server are running on a centos box. I have take a look at deadcat.net.au but i can't find nothing about jboss. any idea? thanks in advatage Carlo

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Hobbit Installation Issue
by tanveers＠yahoo.com 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hello everyone, For the first time, I am trying to install Hobbit on my Ubuntu Linux Server. I followed the installation instructions provided on http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/ Every step went fine but when I started hobbit and typed in the hobbit address [ http://server-ip/hobbit/ ] in the browser, instead of getting the main page, I get the directory structure (see below)? What am I missing here? Please assist. Thank you! Index of /hobbit Name Last modified Size Description ________________________________ Parent Directory - gifs/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - help/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - html/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - menu/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - notes/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - rep/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - snap/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - wml/ 13-Nov-2008 14:22 - ________________________________ Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) Server at x.x.x.x Port 80

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Monitoring Windows files
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hi all Anybody had any experiences monitoring Windows files with bbwin? What has been your experience, and how did you configure it? Regards Vernon NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.

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need help with IGNORE pattern
by vadud3＠gmail.com 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

This is the data in /var/adm/messages file Nov 17 15:25:08 server fcsm: [ID 517869 kern.warning] WARNING: fcsm(0): fc packet to DID 0xfffffa failed state: Packet Transport error(0xe); reason: No Connection(0x5) This is the entry in hobbit-client.cfg LOG /var/adm/messages "%(?-i)WARNING|(?-i)ERROR" IGNORE=%fcsm.* I also tried %.*fcsm.* with no avail But I am still getting alerts for that line in messages file What am I doing wrong? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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msgs monitoring
by gwege＠infomanage.net 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Is it possible to have a second msgs column? I need to monitor a series of log files unrelated to standard system messages and would like to place it under its own column.

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Hobbit latest trunk failing to compile on sparc solaris 9
by vadud3＠gmail.com 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

(hobbit)@hobbit:~/src/trunk$ ./configure Configuration script for Hobbit This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Hobbit Checking your make-utility Checking pre-requisites for building Hobbit Checking for fping ... Hobbit has a built-in ping utility (hobbitping) However, it is not yet fully stable and therefore it may be best to use the external fping utility instead. I found fping in /usr/local/sbin/fping Do you want to use it [Y/n] ? Y Checking to see if '/usr/local/sbin/fping 127.0.0.1' works ... 127.0.0.1 is alive OK, will use '/usr/local/sbin/fping' for ping tests NOTE: If you are using an suid-root wrapper, make sure the 'hobbit' user is also allowed to run fping without having to enter passwords. For 'sudo', add something like this to your 'sudoers' file: hobbit: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/fping Checking for RRDtool ... Found RRDtool include files in /usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.42/include Found RRDtool libraries in /usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.42/lib Linking RRD with PNG library: -L/usr/sfw/lib -lpng -L/usr/lib -lz -lm Checking for PCRE ... Found PCRE include files in /usr/local/include Found PCRE libraries in /usr/local/lib Checking for zlib ... test-zlib.c: In function `main': test-zlib.c:20: error: `ZLIB_VERNUM' undeclared (first use in this function) test-zlib.c:20: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once test-zlib.c:20: error: for each function it appears in.) make: *** [test-compile] Error 1 ERROR: ZLIB include files found in /usr/include, but compile fails. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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