November 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

[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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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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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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FreeNAS and hobbit client
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Has anyone gotten the Hobbit client (or is that the Xymon client now =) running on FreeNAS? Or even FreeBSD 6.x for that matter? I am curious on how to go about starting this. I have minimal BSD experience so I am hoping I can learn how package management is done and create a package for Xymon for the easiest route. 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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BBwin report
by rower.master＠gmail.com 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi all, I would like to extract the data from the xml file of bbwin client to a html configuration report. Has someone here did something similar? I have my bbwin(s).cfg stored at the hobbit server because I run bbwinupdate feature. My idea is to read the cfg files locally and generate a html report. Any smart ideas ? Thanks in advance, Mario.

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Can't read, should be red
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Does anyone else believe that if a check, msgs for example, should be read if it can't read /var/log/messages? It only makes sense for it to call attention in this case, does it not? I bring this up because I just installed a Xymon server at home and noticed that msgs was green and I had not given my xymon user permission to read it yet. I believe it would be a great reminder and security would benefit. Just throwing my two cents in. Now a days it might take three or four cents, though... 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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Acknowledgment email
by URMM＠VM.MARIST.EDU 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Is there a way to get an acknowledgment to generate an email the way the alerts do? I've poked through all the list archives, but haven't found anything about it. I have alerts going to email lists so that several support people will receive the email/page. I'd like the acks to go there too, so that the rest are informed when one of the group picks up the problem. Martha McConaghy Marist College

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