December 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

[hobbit] bb-ack
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

I am running Red Hat release 4 and the latest snapshot. I am also running Apache 2.0.52. When I try to acknowledge an alert it shows me ALL the services that are alarming not just the alert I was interested in. Any idea what I can do to debug? I tried copying the .cgi binary from my other Hobbit/Xymon server that works but that failed to make any difference. I also compared some of the hobbit .cfg files but couldn't find anything that would account for the different behavior. ~David

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out of sockets for hobbitfetch
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

The server is Solaris 10. Yesterday I shut down hobbit, moved to another disk, created a soft link, started up again. Now this shows up in hobbitfetch.log: 2008-12-31 08:49:52 Caught TERM signal, terminating 2008-12-31 08:53:49 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.1.1.184:1984 (req 132): Broken pipe 2008-12-31 08:53:56 Connection lost during connect/write to 10.1.1.183:1984 (req 246): Broken pipe 2008-12-31 08:53:56 Out of sockets (req 280) 2008-12-31 08:53:56 Out of sockets (req 281) 2008-12-31 08:53:56 Out of sockets (req 282) 2008-12-31 08:53:56 Out of sockets (req 283) 2008-12-31 08:53:56 Out of sockets (req 284) 2008-12-31 08:53:56 Out of sockets (req 285) All my hobbitfetch clients are purple. How do I identify what sockets are required? It sounds like an OS resource issue. Thanks Craig

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Xymon DNS check error
by doctor＠makelofine.org 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi, I used hobbitmon 4.2.0, and since I upgraded to Xymon 4.2.2 (on server and client sides), i get errors with the included DNS test. I defined my hosts as follow : 1.2.3.4 host # dns=test.tld,test2.tld,test3.tld The 3 domains are working great, and were successfuly checked with hobbitmon 4.2.0 Now, only test.tld (or any other, while it's the first of the list) is checked as OK. Others are reported in error with following message : "Channel destroyed". I can't find anything about that error in logs nor tmp directories. So I can't figure how to find the error. Thanks for your help, and have a very nice new year !

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Goodbye "Hobbit", hello "Xymon"
by henrik＠hswn.dk 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Greetings! As I wrote some time ago, I was contacted by the owners of the "Hobbit" trademark back in June. Several names have been suggested by you on the mailing list (see http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/08/msg00193.html) but the decision has now been made. As of today, the official name is "Xymon" (pronounced just like "Simon"). At the moment this renaming has not caused much of a change, but it will be implemented over the coming weeks. * The Sourceforge project URL remains at https://sf.net/projects/hobbitmon/ due to project renamings currently being suspended on Sourceforge. Once the suspension is lifted, however, there is a queued request to rename the project. It will then be available at https://sf.net/projects/xymon/ * The mailing list address remains "hobbit at hswn.dk" for the moment. A new "Xymon" mailing list will be setup, but this will be announced separately. * The demo website http://www.xymon.com/ is active. The old address - www.hobbitmon.com - will remain in place for some time, but no longer than August 2009. * Changes to documentation, code, webpages inside the Hobbit monitor etc. will be happening over the next couple of weeks, and will be fully implemented in the upcoming release. Best regards, Henrik

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clientupdate related bug?!
by vadud3＠gmail.com 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hi I have a list of hosts with CLASS:myclass and I have a tar file newimage.tar file in ~hobbit/server/download dir In my ~hobbit/server/etc/client-local.cfg file I added this entry [myclass] clientversion:newimage This image suppose to add a new service called `mytest` in the status column for all hosts in that particular group I noticed only few hosts got that new service column `mytest' , after a little wait, and most did not create the new column I have a total of 40 hosts in that group I also noticed all of the hosts have the [clientversion] section in the client data showing the `newimage' as the version name. So hobbit server at least instructed the client correctly to pickup the new image and the clients were able to run the clientupdate command. All the clients have the new ext/newscript.sh and the etc/clientversion.cfg file (with content newimage) However, the clients that did not show the new service column is _still_ carrying have the old etc/clientlaunch.cfg file. It does not have an entry of the [newservice] section. So that explains why new service column is not showing in status page for those hosts. A working and non-working clients' hobbitclient.log file has same 'tar: blocksize = 0' . So tar xf probably did not fail. They all are same OS, solaris 8. So something in the non-working hosts preventing it from overwriting the old etc/clientlaunch.cfg file How do I debug this? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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conn ok : System failure of the ping test ;hobbit system error
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

hi, i am using xymon 4.2.2,i am getting fallowing error on display page.. conn ok : System failure of the ping test ;hobbit system error -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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Iostat and/or Xymon graphing bug.
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Compliments of the season to you all And a special thanks to Stef Coene for the iostat script. Works great on my test server. I have just one question. How do I get rid of the extra blank iostat graph link URL? See attached (hopefully the image will not be stripped) In case it is stripped, I get the iostat graph, and then another link, with no graph. The URLs are almost the same. Only the first=X is different. The graph is http://hobbithost/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=server1&service=iostat-dis… The link is http://hobbithost/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=server1&service=iostat-dis… I am not using iostat-part, so my bb-host entry looks like this 1.2.3.4 server1 # ssh TRENDS:*,vmstat,disk:disk|iostat-disk NOCOLUMNS:msgs I thought maybe this was a bug in displaying data from multiple rrd files on one graph that had some interesting edge-case at 6 fields, but on the trends page for another server, I have 8 data fields from 4 rrd files. This gives me 1 graph, with 8 lines, and 2 additional links. The graph has first=1 The next URL has first=5 and the next first=9 Any ideas? (We are running Xymon 4.2.2) 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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pagegen.c
by Robert.Taylor＠HendrickAuto.com 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

So I had this idea to convert all of the presentation information in Xymon to CSS, well really just the text information right now and not so much the positioning of content. I'm not particularly good at programming, but have managed to convert everything to CSS, but can't find one thing. There is a tag around each host, but I can't seem to find where the tag is being applied. I can wrap a around the , but I'd really prefer the only around the text. Can someone help me find where the tag is applied for the individual host entries on the BBDISPLAY? Robert Taylor | Director of Information Technology | Hendrick Automotive Group Mobile Phone (704)241-4432 | NC Office (704)566-3380 | NC Fax (704)566-3341

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[hobbit] graphs missing text
by mark.simon＠verizonbusiness.com 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Thanks Henrik, My problem turned out to be permissions on some of the lib files. Everything is working great now. Mark Simon VIPS USE-HP Support 2400 N Glenville Dr Richardson, TX 75082 (972)729-5674 v777-5674 Re: [hobbit] graphs missing text ________________________________________ * To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk * Subject: Re: [hobbit] graphs missing text * From: Henrik "StÃ¸rner" <henrik (at) hswn.dk> * Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:30:26 +0000 (UTC) * Newsgroups: lists.hobbit * Organization: Linux Users Inc. * References: <EAF191774F754841847C5D180638ADFF0F4AE478 (at) ASHEVS004.mcilink.com> * User-agent: nn/6.7.3 ________________________________________ In <EAF191774F754841847C5D180638ADFF0F4AE478 (at) ASHEVS004.mcilink.com> "Simon, Mark T (Mark Simon)" <mark.simon (at) verizonbusiness.com> writes: >Hello Brothers and Big Sisters, I love the new name (guess why). I just >converted my Hobbit Server to a Xymon Server. I copied over the histlogs >and rrd files and everything is working with one small annoyance, my >graphs have no text. The graphs are generated with data, grids, arrows, >and lines but no labels or legends. I know this can happen if the fonts >are not installed but it works fine when running Hobbit on the same >server. I also manually generated a graph with rrdtool and it came out >fine. This happens for rrd files I copied from Hobbit and on ones newly >generated by Xymon. >I built Xymon on an HP-UX 11.23 IA64 server. I am using rrdtool ver >1.2.23 that I built on this same server. RRDtool uses an external font (ttf) file when it renders the text. It sounds as if the hobbitgraph.cgi binary picks up a version of the rrdtool library which has a built in filename for this ttf-file that doesn't match the actual location. Usually this happens if the rrdtool library was built on another machine. I don't know how to do this in HP-UX, but on Linux or Solaris I'd use the "ldd" utility to see which rrdtool library is used: $ ldd ~xymon/server/bin/hobbitgraph.cgi linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb80b8000) libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb805e000) librrd.so.2 => /usr/lib/librrd.so.2 (0xb8015000) (If there's no librrd listed, then it's probably linked statically. In that case, the next step is done againt the hobbitgraph.cgi binary). Next, do a "strings" and "grep" on /usr/lib/librrd.so.2 to see what ttf-file it references: $ strings /usr/lib/librrd.so.2 |grep ttf @/usr/share/rrdtool/librrd2/DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf Does that file exist ? It is readable by the webserver userid ? $ ls -l /usr/share/rrdtool/librrd2/DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60444 2008-02-17 11:26 /usr/share/rrdtool/librrd2/DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf NB: This is only for RRDtool 1.2.x - the 1.3.x handling of fonts is quite different. Regards, Henrik

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graphs missing text
by mark.simon＠verizonbusiness.com 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Hello Brothers and Big Sisters, I love the new name (guess why). I just converted my Hobbit Server to a Xymon Server. I copied over the histlogs and rrd files and everything is working with one small annoyance, my graphs have no text. The graphs are generated with data, grids, arrows, and lines but no labels or legends. I know this can happen if the fonts are not installed but it works fine when running Hobbit on the same server. I also manually generated a graph with rrdtool and it came out fine. This happens for rrd files I copied from Hobbit and on ones newly generated by Xymon. I built Xymon on an HP-UX 11.23 IA64 server. I am using rrdtool ver 1.2.23 that I built on this same server. The only build issue I had was I had to make a link /usr/local/pcre/lib -> ../lib/hpux32 so pcre.sh could find the lib files. Mark Simon Verizon USE-HP Support 2400 N Glenville Dr Richardson, TX 75082 (972)729-5674 v777-5674

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