January 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Hobbit 4.2.0 client and memory checks
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi all, An issue has arisen over the Christmas period that is causing me some confusion. I have a Sun server running sparc Solaris 10 which has the 4.2.0 Hobbit client installed on it, this client sends its data to my 4.2.2 Xymon server. The client machine has 64GB of memory and 16GB of swap space. The issue I have at the moment is that Xymon's web pages show the server as having 64GB (or so) of swap and the swap is 91% full, yet a swift look on the server itself shows it to have on 16GB of swap and none of which is in use. I have also confirmed that the machine this data is coming from is the same as the one I think it is and that I am not logging on to a different server! The relevant portions of the client data are as follows: [df] Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/odm 0 0 0 0% /dev/odm swap 5123480 1328 5122152 1% /etc/svc/volatile swap 5122440 304 5122136 1% /tmp swap 5122136 0 5122136 0% /dev/vx/dmp swap 5122136 0 5122136 0% /dev/vx/rdmp /dev/md/dsk/d0 16525754 8227674 8132823 51% / /dev/md/dsk/d30 16525754 5177145 11183352 32% /var /dev/md/dsk/d40 1025903 654865 309484 68% /home ... [top] load averages: 2.26, 2.30, 1.84; up 33+21:36:10 12:20:22 158 processes: 156 sleeping, 2 on cpu Memory: 64G phys mem, 15G free mem, 16G swap, 16G free swap ... [vmstat] kthr memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m2 m1 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 23250064 29333720 407 464 877 1891 1885 0 0 13 8 8 0 1862 9947 5678 5 1 93 0 0 0 5123960 15420256 642 583 460 6928 6905 0 0 19 12 12 0 5384 34448 17397 15 4 81 ... So as you can see from the [top] section above the server has only 16GB of swap configured, yet the memory web page for this server has: Tue Jan 6 12:40:20 GMT 2009 - Memory CRITICAL Memory Used Total Percentage green Physical 49541M 65536M 75% red Swap 57495M 62474M 92% I guess I am having a problem understanding how Xymon interprets memory. I am fairly sure I have looked at this in the past but I still don't understand it 8-( |\/| -- Martin W. Ward TAC Network Systems Team Leader COLT Unit 12, Powergate Business Park Volt Avenue, Park Royal, London NW10 6PW, United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0)20 7863 5218 Internal: 8 441 5218 Fax: + 44 (0)20 7863 5610 Email: martin.ward at colt.net www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services ************************************************************************************* The message is intended for the named addressee only and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone else, nor may it be copied in any way. The contents of this message and its attachments are confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the named addressee and/or have received this message in error, please advise us by e-mailing security at colt.net and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Internet communications are not secure and COLT does not accept responsibility for this message, its contents nor responsibility for any viruses. No contracts can be created or varied on behalf of COLT Telecommunications, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("COLT") and any other party by email Communications unless expressly agreed in writing with such other party. Please note that incoming emails will be automatically scanned to eliminate potential viruses and unsolicited promotional emails. For more information refer to www.colt.net or contact us on +44(0)20 7390 3900.

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Is there a "proper" way to prune logs?
by bferrell＠baywinds.org 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

I've been up a long time and I didn't see it in the docs Thanks in advance, especially if I'm being stupid

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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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help bbrelay
by ESimon＠aquitaine-valley.fr 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hello I want configure my hobbit server like this Bbwin talk with hobbit-slave And hobbit-slave all display to hobbit master and general How to do and instal bbrelay ? Thank you SIMON Evelyne Aquitaine Valley Rue de l'Hermite BP 70081 33523 Bruges tel : 05.56.11.91.72 Fax : 05.56.11.22.23 esimon at aquitaine-valley.fr <mailto:esimon at aquitaine-valley.fr>

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Group-Compress
by Robert.Taylor＠HendrickAuto.com 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

It looks like the group and group-compress functionality are the same with everything being compressed. Is there an easy way to go back to having either group and group-compress functionality? Say for instance that I wanted hosts grouped together, but want to see every potential column and not have it compressed? Thanks, Robert

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Netware & clientupdate
by bb4＠richter-it.net 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, first of all I'd like to wish all of you a Happy New Year. And now for something completely different. 1. Has someone a working Netware client and can share it with me? Or do you monitor servers running Netware 4.x and above another way and can tell me how to do it? 2. I just installed XYmon 4.2.2 as server on Solaris 8. I have a client running Solaris 10. So I compiled the client on this machine and transferred it back to the server to try the clientupdate. I did as written here: http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man1/clientupdate.1.html But after client-local.cfg got reloaded not only the Solaris 10 client got updated with the new version. The client on the Server also got overwritten with the new version which is not what I wanted. So how do I tell XYmon to update only specific machines instead of all running the same OS but in different releases? TIA 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) iD8DBQFJX6zG7DlmxomQk6wRAmM4AJ4qwjhNVbyuS0fURpBDMbj1q/FdFQCeMowa RjW7FdoyGbBR01OA8Sy6NWM= =P51s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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help bbrelay
by ESimon＠aquitaine-valley.fr 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hello, I can installing a bbrelay with hobbit and xymon I don't find a documentation It's very urgent Could you help me for installing et configuring this servers thank SIMON Evelyne Aquitaine Valley Rue de l'Hermite BP 70081 33523 Bruges tel : 05.56.11.91.72 Fax : 05.56.11.22.23 esimon at aquitaine-valley.fr

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Mandriva Package?
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Has anyone built a xymon package for Mandriva? I recall Buchan stating he was going to, but I haven't seen it pop up in cooker yet. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com

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