December 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

hobbit to XYmon
by BNepal＠formfactor.com 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Hi, I am planning to move from hobbit to Xymon. Is there any migration plan, or steps to follow. I know the challenge would be the data files and trying to figure out how to move those to new server. In fact I have some old data that I need to bring into this new server so I can go back and see the health of the system. Thanks bikash

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Custom test results displayed on a test page
by Rafal.Roginela＠AmeriCashLoans.net 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi All, Merry Christmas! I have a question and I have no Idea how to begin to ask it so I'll just start by giving the scenario and maybe someone has a totally different approach that I should take for this: I have a PIX that sends syslog to my hobbit server I also have cron job that runs a script that analyses that log file and gives me a nice looking results that are piped out to a text file: 196 MB XX.XX.XX.XX 100 MB XX.XX.XX.XX 18 MB XX.XX.XX.XX 12 MB XX.XX.XX.XX 7 MB XX.XX.XX.XX 6 MB XX.XX.XX.XX 4 MB XX.XX.XX.XX 2 MB XX.XX.XX.XX Ran at Fri Dec 19 11:40:36 2008 This is a top talker output from the PIX with different IP's in different places depending on the amount of traffic generated by that host. What I would like to do is generate a custom test that would be able to, at the very least, display this output so I can easily look at it by clicking on the green dot for this custom test. But it would be cool if I could graph it but that is a very much "Nice to have" and I have a feeling that just getting the output on a page will be challenging enough for me since I'm a complete newb at Xymon! PS If anyone has ever ran into this also: My pix is sysloging to the hobbit box good; I even have it going to a separate file for easy sorting but I'm finding that it clogs up my messages file with duplicate entries no mater which facility I try (right now I have used local4 through local6 changing the appropriate commands in the pix). Thank you, Rafal Roginela Network Engineer AmeriCash Loans, LLC 880 Lee Street, Suite 302 Des Plaines, IL 60016 Office (847) 827-9740 x109 Fax (847) 493-8031 rroginela at americashloans.net <mailto:rroginela at americashloans.net> This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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I'm brain-dead and need some more eyes -
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

I'm dynamically generating an include file for my bb-hosts file (VMWare servers and the guest VMs they have defined/running). I've a similar process running for RS-6000 LPARs on a P6 server that works. Can anyone give me a reason why the web page generated from this include file stops just after the <H3> hercules </H3> line?  <H3>Intel VMWare Servers</H3> group-compress <H4><I>Servers</I></H4> 0.0.0.0 apollo # noconn 0.0.0.0 hercules # noconn 0.0.0.0 ares # noconn 0.0.0.0 poseidon # noconn 0.0.0.0 zeus # noconn title <H3> apollo </H3> group-compress <H4><I> Production VMs </I></H4> 0.0.0.0 whq-sapcm # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq_ts_2 # noconn 0.0.0.0 whqcam # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq_ts_1 # noconn group-compress <H4><I> Other VMs </I></H4> 0.0.0.0 whq-ondemand # noconn 0.0.0.0 whqolcsbe # noconn 0.0.0.0 whqforefront # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq-wslogger # noconn 0.0.0.0 Storage # noconn 0.0.0.0 chi-wrkstation # noconn title <H3> hercules </H3> group-compress <H4><I> Other VMs </I></H4> 0.0.0.0 whq-heattest # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq-webapp # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq-petrasmxpvm # noconn 0.0.0.0 nibcotestdc # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq-lopbeta # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq-petrasmtestvm # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq-questdb # noconn 0.0.0.0 fedora9x32 # noconn 0.0.0.0 whq-heat # noconn 0.0.0.0 vima-ovf-124830 # noconn title <H3> ares </H3> title <H3> poseidon </H3> title <H3> zeus </H3> Web source for the last two lines generated: <TR> <TD NOWRAP><A NAME="chi-wrkstation"> </A> <FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica">chi-wrkstation</FONT><TD ALIGN=CENTER>-</TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER>-</TD> <TD ALIGN=CENTER>-</TD> </TR> </TABLE></CENTER><BR> <CENTER><TABLE BORDER=0> <TR><TD><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#FFFFF0" SIZE="+1"><H3> hercules </H3></FONT></CENTER></TD></TR> <TR><TD><HR WIDTH="100%"></TD></TR> </TABLE></CENTER> <A NAME=hosts-blk-3> </A> </CENTER> <CENTER><BR><BR><HR WIDTH="80%"> TIA -- Tom Kauffman ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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PAGE= directive
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi all Can somebody explain to me exactly how the PAGE= and SUBPAGE= works. It's really handy, and can be used in many config files, but I am struggling to get it to work as dicuments. Please correct me if I am wrong, but if in bb-hosts, I have page prod Production Servers group Unix Production 0.0.0.0 server1 # 0.0.0.0 server2 # 0.0.0.0 server3 # page test Test Servers group Unix Test 0.0.0.0 server4 # 0.0.0.0 server5 # 0.0.0.0 server6 # page oracle Oracle Servers group Oracle Production 0.0.0.0 server3 # noconn Group Oracle Test 0.0.0.0 server6 # noconn 0.0.0.0 server7 # And in a config file I use PAGE=prod, it should limit itself to server1, server2 and server3. However PAGE=oracle doesn't seem to pick up the server3 and server6. But it does seem to apply to server7 Any tips appreciated. 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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iostat
by shailesh.paudyal＠gmail.com 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Hello Hobbit Gurus! I have been trying to get iostat on hobbit, I am running Redhat Linux 5.2, I am really lost. Do any of you have something that I can follow to get it working? I would appreciate it. Thank you, -shal

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Joern Klinckmann is out of the office.
by jklinckmann＠csc.com 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

I will be out of the office starting 20.12.2008 and will not return until 05.01.2009. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year1 For Motorola account specific issues, please contact Simon Ball (sball7 at csc.com) For Motorola account UNIX escallations, please contact Krishna Mohan Rao Vagicherla (kvagicherla at csc.com) In very urgent cases, please call my mobil. Many thanks.

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How to search "error." pattern with LOG
by vschultz＠cvf.fr 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hello, I am trying to monitor a log file in order to be alerted when the string "error." appears. For instance : error.grammar error.noressource ... should send an alert but "error " (with a space after) should not. I tried to put in hobbit-clients.cfg : LOG /tmp/log error. COLOR=yellow ==> does not work LOG /tmp/log %(?-i)error. COLOR=yellow ==> works but match with error (without the .) Does anyone can help me to find the correct regexp please ? Thank you, Vincent

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syntax for log monitoring with spaces?
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

In hobbit-clients.cfg I have this defined HOST=sun.example.com LOG /var/adm/messages %error|panic|ERROR|half-duplex|failing|transport failed|responding|core|NOTICE|offlin COLOR=red IGNORE=%upload|External request already in progress|pam_dial_auth LOG /var/adm/messages %(WARNING|xntpd) COLOR=yellow (The first LOG line is a single line in hobbit-clients.cfg) But, I get alarms like this: System logs at Fri Dec 19 08:42:16 EST 2008 red Critical entries in /var/adm/messages red Dec 19 08:09:41 sun bpjava-msvc[5400]: [ID 427199 user.error] pam_dial_auth: terminal-device not specifiedby login, returning Error in underlying service module. red Dec 19 08:31:09 sun bpjava-msvc[3963]: [ID 427199 user.error] pam_dial_auth: terminal-device not specifiedby login, returning Error in underlying service module. Is my logic wrong? (Hobbit Monitor 4.3.0-0.20080403) Thanks Craig

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vmstat problem
by doctor＠makelofine.org 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi all, I'm using Xymon 4.2.2 on both clients and server side. All my OS are linux (almost all are kernel 2.6) My case : One of my client does not send [vmstat] section to the server. After researching a lot, i found that executing manually hobbitclient-linux.sh is working great. I've the hobbit_vmstat.HOSTNAME.$$ file created, but it's not moved to hobbit_vmstat.HOSTNAME. So I modified hobbitclient-linux.sh in order to get directly the hobbit_vmstat.HOSTNAME file, and it works when i start hobbitclient-linux.sh manually. But when i start xymon client, the hobbit_vmstat.HOSTNAME is not generated, and the message sent to my server still doesn't include [vmstat] section I'm sorry if my explanations/vocabulary sucks. Any help would be very appreciated Regards, Damien

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BBWin Patch
by MFisher＠hra.com 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Can some please detail the installation steps to install the BBWIN Patch for Central Configs? thanks!

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