December 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

timed alerts
by bb4＠richter-it.net 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, is it possible with Hobbit 4.2.0 to time alerts? I was asked this by colleagues. They want something that if a yellow alert is displayed for more than a configurable time that Hobbit/XYmon sets the state of this alert to red. E.g. if the msgs test is continuously yellow for 1 day or week the server automatically sets the state to red after this time. In the company where I operate the monitoring solution we have plenty of yellow alerts which get more or less ignored. So if an alert is not resolved within a certain time it should go red and tease the admins until they solve the problem. If it is not possible with Hobbit 4.2.0 maybe it could be integrated in one of the next releases? Second question: I have Hobbit server set up with centralised configuration. But some of the clients are running with local configuration. What do I have to do to monitor the log files like /var/log/messages on this client or check for the existence of certain files. At the moment I have the entries "LOG /var/log/messages error" and "FILE /somedir/core NOEXIST" in localclient.cfg on the client and also on the server in hobbit-clients.cfg. But nothing is monitored. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Torsten - -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Richter IT-Consulting | | E-mail : bb4 [at] richter-it.net | | | | Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Download my public key from: http://www.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x899093AC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3-nr1 (Windows XP) iD8DBQFJQD6i7DlmxomQk6wRAg9rAJ9Tv3XTvfZG0/rcM2B1y1A2tz7QgwCglbu4 nL52qBiklNhdVBbzISARewA= =UPDY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Xymon 4.3
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

I am ready to start building some more Xymon servers and would like to wait until 4.3 is available.. is there a release date for this? Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C95B8B.1B2C9C60] Director, Systems-Network Engineering T 801-828-1735 F 801-828-1704 E gleonard at progrexion.com<mailto:gleonard at progrexion.com> Research | Marketing | Sales Generation www.progrexion.com<http://www.progrexion.com/> This email and its contents are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this email and do not use or disclose the information within this email or its attachments. Thank you.

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Hi problem with ERROR: Undefined symbol: ._isnan
by diwakar211＠gmail.com 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi even i too got the same error message ""Undefined symbol: ._isnan"" i saw below mail while googling, can help me out how to handle this error http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/03/msg00056.html On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 13:44 Henrik wrote : >>On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:09:30AM -0000, Morris, Chris (NPMID) wrote: >> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/snapshot/web' >> gcc -O -D_REENTRANT -DAIX -I. -I/usr/local/snapshot/include >> -I/usr/local/include -o hobbit-perfdata.cgi hobbit-perfdata.o >> ../lib/libhobbit.a -L/usr/lib -lz -L/usr/lib -lpcre >> -L/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.26/lib -lrrd -L/usr/lib -lpng >> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: ._isnan > >Could You try changing snapshot/web/Makefile ? Some way into the file >you'll find this bit: > >hobbit-perfdata.cgi: $(PERFDATAOBJS) $(LIBOBJS) > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(RPATHOPT) $(PERFDATAOBJS) $(LIBOBJS) $(HOBBITZLIB) $(PCRELIBS) $(RRDLIBS) $(NETLIBS) > >Add "-lm" after the "$(NETLIBS)" and let me know if that helps: > >hobbit-perfdata.cgi: $(PERFDATAOBJS) $(LIBOBJS) > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(RPATHOPT) $(PERFDATAOBJS) $(LIBOBJS) $(HOBBITZLIB) $(PCRELIBS) $(RRDLIBS) $(NETLIBS) -lm > > >Regards, >Henrik my file contails the LIBS export line as like this LIBS= -lrscg -lscg $(LIB_VOLMGT) -lparanoia -ldeflt -lschily $(SCSILIB) $(EXTRALIB) $(LIB_SOCKET) I have chaged it to LIBS= -lm -lrscg -lscg $(LIB_VOLMGT) -lparanoia -ldeflt -lschily $(SCSILIB) $(EXTRALIB) $(LIB_SOCKET) but still i canot rectify the problem Thanks in advance -- Thanks & Regards, DIVAKAR ADARI, IIT KHARAGPUR

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Hobbit Development Platform
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi Henrik What platform (OS and hardware) do you use to develop Hobbit? I know this was asked and answered in detail here http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/06/msg00206.html But that was over two years ago. :-) Is it still the same? 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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Long question about BB clients and HOBBIT clients
by bbenedetto＠goodyear.com 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Good day. I'm a long-time BB user. About 18 months ago I switched my BB server to Hobbit/Xymon. Everything has worked shwell.... until recently, of course. Hence this email. There was a thread recently about screen-scraping the SERVICE=info webpage to get the OS off of it. That seemed pretty useful/cool to me so I tried it. However, my SERVICE=info webpage doesn't have the OS on it. More nosing around led me to the hobbitdboard command although it did take me quite awhile to figure out how to use hobbitdboard. I was somewhat dismayed to finally figure out how to use hobbitdboard just to discover that when I did this command: % .../bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=info fields=hostname,BBH_OS" that there was no BBH_OS field available. (Or maybe it was available but empty...?) Anyhoo, I somehow figured out (I no longer remember HOW I figured this out) that I could modify one of my BB client scripts to do this: $BB $BBDISP "client `$UNAME -n`.`$UNAME`" which pretty much seems to work. I can now do the aforementioned hobbitdboard command and get the OS returned. Cool stuff. *HOWEVER*, I noticed 2 side effects of this. The first side effect being that the SERVICE=info webpage doesn't seem to have ANYTHING on it now. I not only don't get the OS, the page is blank (or maybe there's some error somewhere in the pipeline now?). You might not think that this is connected to my change, but I haven't added the $BB $BBDISP "client `$UNAME -n`.`$UNAME`" command to all of my clients. And only the ones that have that addition also now have the blank/borken SERVICE=info webpage. The second side effect is much more impressive and the real reason for my email today. Since implementing my addition to most of my BB clients, I now get 2 MSGS reports from each of those clients every update period. So every 5 minutes I get 2 MSGS reports. One is green and says something like this: Wed Dec 10 11:27:32 EST 2008 No bad messages Status unchanged in 0.00 minutes Status message received from YOUR_UP_HERE_PAL The other report is clear and looks something like this: System logs at : No log data available The client did not report any logfile data Of course, since I'm getting two different colors every polling period, that means that I'm getting two different log files and that each of them is stored. And since I have this on 130 machines, I'm getting 260 files every five minutes. A week ago this filled up my disk. And this past week the system ran out of inodes. The entertainment never stops! :-) I'm pretty sure that the green message is from my BB client. (My MSGS were all green before I put my addition in place.) I don't really know where the clear message is coming from. I'm guessing that it's coming from hobbit but I have no idea how I started this "feature". If it is coming from hobbit: How does it run? Why does it run? Should I be using this instead of the BB client? Where do I go to track down some of this stuff? I'd appreciate any guidance both on my problem and any location of where I could go to learn more about this. Thanks! -- - Bill +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Bill Benedetto <bbenedetto at goodyear.com> The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. I don't speak for Goodyear and they don't speak for me. We're both happy.

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Novell SuSE SLES 10 client issue.
by bcatlin＠gmail.com 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Okay, I have a few Novell SuSE SLES 10 servers. I compiled the 4.2 client on one of them and tried to get it to talk to the Master running on Solaris 9. The page shows the Master tests, ping, ssh (and they work! - got paged tonight when the interface on one went AWOL) On the client side. In client/tmp = the files are created and ready to send The client has a couple probes, and they have good output too. I can telnet to the master from the clients on port 1984 successfully. The client refuses to publish out to the Master. My bb-hosts has the proper entries for IP and names (tested that empirically ) and I have a number of graphs spec'd after trends:* My sun connections all work fine (Solaris 9 mainly, no 10) I am wondering if something needs to be changed in the compile to make the client work on SLES 10. I am NOT a programmer, so need some help here... lurch at inorbit.com

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SPLITNCV remains derive instead of GAUGE
by Jonathan.VanLiefde＠be.fujitsu.com 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Guys, I'm having a problem with a graph for a custom test of mine. The test sends different performance numbers for hard disks of windows servers. The output looks like this: Average disk que length per (physical) disk: Local Disk 0 : 0.120800 Local Disk 1 : 0.010100 Since this test is used for different server types, the number of hard disk is different for every server. Because of this I use SPLITNCV to generate multiple RRD's for every disk. Then I create the graphs using the FNPATTERN stuff. The RRD's collect the data without a problem. The only problem I'm having is that I cannot tell SPLITNCV that my test uses a GAUGE value instead of DERIVE. I tried placing: SPLITNCV_dskperf="LocalDisk*:GAUGE" SPLITNCV_dskperf="LocalDisk0:GAUGE,LocalDisk1:GAUGE" SPLITNCV_dskperf="*:GAUGE" SPLITNCV_dskperf="GAUGE" NCV_dskperf="LocalDisk*:GAUGE" NCV_dskperf="LocalDisk0:GAUGE,LocalDisk1:GAUGE" NCV_dskperf="*:GAUGE" NCV_dskperf="GAUGE" But no success, rrd tool keeps saying that the dataset is DERIVE. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, Please help... Thanks in advance, Van Liefde Jonathan FUJITSU E. Mommaertslaan 16a, 1831 Diegem Tel.: +32 (0) 2 712.77.25 Mob: +32 (0) 473 89.07.16 Fax: +32 (0) 2 712.77.56 E-mail: jonathan.vanliefde at be.fujitsu.com Web: http://www.fujitsu.com/be Fujitsu Services n.v., Registered in Belgium, Brussels no 606497, Registered Office E. Mommaertslaan 16a, 1831 Diegem This e-mail is only for the use of its intended recipient. Its contents are subject to a duty of confidence and may be privileged. Fujitsu Services does not guarantee that this e-mail has not been intercepted and amended or that

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Joern Klinckmann/PLZ/CSC is out of the office.
by jklinckmann＠csc.com 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

I will be out of the office starting 10.12.2008 and will not return until 12.12.2008. 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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Status Not Available Resolution
by lsd4me＠gmail.com 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

For anyone who is interested...heres what i ended up doing for it to finally work... Installed VM Fedora 7.... Disabled the Firewall, SELinux, and Killed the IPTables (/etc/init.d/iptables stop) Yum Installed the following: RRDTool, RRDTool-Devel, OpenSSL-Devel, OpenLDAP-Devel, PCRE-Devel, Fping (although i didnt use it), and what seemed to fix everything was LIBPNG-DEVEL....!!! Not sure y,..but... I then was able to do a clean ./Configure of Xymon/Hobbit and installed it into /usr/local/xymon using the xymon user account and then GMAKED!! only when i ran gmake instead of make did it work in the end..once again, not sure y....then ran GMAKE INSTALL....instead of make install... Configured the apache file, started httpd, and then started hobbitd WITHOUT making any cfg changes...Worked like a charm...NO data was avaiulable rigt away but aftre 2 min, the client (bb server) appeared and clicking on the STATUS actually works now... Woo hoo for me..:)

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Directory size =0
by Quinton.Jansen＠ec.gc.ca 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Is there a way to get hobbit/xymon to understand that a directory size of 0 is a valid response? We have a number of data ingest directories on a xfs fs that should be 0 most of the time. on ext3, du on an empty directory gives 4. on xfs, du on an empty directory gives 0 Quinton

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