January 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Migration from Hobbit on Solaris to Xymon on Ubuntu...
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

Hello - I am working on migrating my Hobbit server from Solaris 10 over to Xymon running on Ubunutu Server 8.10 .. Do I have to do anything special to maintain my configuration (I will be swapping IP addresses when complete) and historical data? Thanks - -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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html files in "xymon/server/www" directory are missing (libpcre.so.0 too)
by hajjioui.youness＠gmail.com 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

hi i formated my laptop and after that i installed xymon, but the problem is that html files in "home/xymon/sever/www" are missing, when i checked logfiles i found in "bb-displa.log" that the library lippcre.so.0 is missing too...!! so when i want to acceed to the xymon tool, the browser give me files that exist in "home/xymon/server/www"... please i neeeed help, i'm really blocked... :-( thanks...

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graph cpu util
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Just wondering if there is a way to have the cpu utilization graph could show up when clicking on cpu monitor. Because the cpu page show the load average, it it would be nice to see what the system is doing. -Kevin ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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Find Host feature
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

I did a query looking for a host using the "Administration -> find host" feature. Put in my host name. Xymon changed the URL to be the actual host that it was sitting on, not the virtual web server name, so the query failed. Ie. http://xymon.example.com/xymon-cgi/bb-findhost.sh Find host: sunserver It returned: http://webserver.example.com/xymon-cgi/solaris/#sunserver.example.com (I use virtual apache servers to host xymon, it makes it easier to move to a new box if needed) Craig

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bbnet and bbdisplay
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.co.uk 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi, Glad to see hobbit/xymon is still alive and kicking. I've just dumped Nagios after spending hours knee-deep in config files and still finding that I can't get it to do what I want reliably. My question is: Please can someone point me at some documentation for setting up a multiple monitoring-host environment using bbnet servers and a bbdisplay server? I am looking to setup a bbnet for each remote site which will feed back to the bbdisplay at our office. Thanks, Malcolm P.S. Is there a plan to s/Hobbit/Xymon/g through the code in the near future or do I go ahead and hack away :)? -- Technical copy-editor & proofreader KDE Proofreading Team KDE British English Translation Team http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01

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Are custom alert colours possible?
by spa＠syntec.co.uk 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

If the only times I want to send an alert on a yellow are for custom tests, can I change yellow to orange in hobbitserver.cfg as below? ALERTCOLORS="red,yellow,purple" # Colors that may trigger an alert message OKCOLORS="green,blue,clear" # Colors that may trigger a recovery message To: ALERTCOLORS="red,orange,purple" # Colors that may trigger an alert message OKCOLORS="green,blue,clear" # Colors that may trigger a recovery message And then specify orange as a colour to be used by my custom test (if I want an alert)? Or are there some hard-coded assumptions about what colours are possible? I quick look in hobbitd_alert.c seems to suggest it might be possible, given this line: alertcolors = colorset(xgetenv("ALERTCOLORS"), ((1 << COL_GREEN) | (1 << COL_BLUE))); And the fact there is no mention of 'yellow' in the file, apart from in the comments. I was thinking that if I can eliminate yellow as an ALERTCOLOR, then it might solve the issues I have posted about this week in another thread... Kind regards, SebA

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Fine grained access control
by philwild＠gmail.com 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi Henrik/xymon users, I am not sure what the process for RFE's is but I have a request for an enhancement that is beyond what I can do with my non existent C programming skills... It would be nice if you could set up a finer grained access control within xymon. For example, set up a group for Oracle DBA's and then only give them access to hosts and/or tests that have been added to that group. I know it is possible to restrict views to certain pages using apache authentication and basic security and we use this, but more is needed above this that I believe can only be addressed within the code. For example. the defined groups should only be able to ack and disable/enable items associated with their group provided the group has been given permission to do that. It would also be nice to restrict the viewing of certain test columns to certain groups as well bb2 pages and reports etc... Thoughts? Cheers Phil

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[trunk] rrdcache flush for hobbitgraph.sh ?
by obeau79＠gmail.com 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hello, From the manual, i understand that rrd updates are flushed on disk every 30 minutes. I'm wondering if hobbitgraph.sh display graphs from the rrd on disk and if there is a kind a "flush rrdcache" for that hosts on cgi calls ? Olivier

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Windows Updates in Hobbit
by xtheox40＠hotmail.com 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi There, Are you able to post the code required to get Windows Updates displaying in hobbit As per the nagios external site e.g. Updates ready: 3Title: Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB960714)Reboot behavior: A reboot might be required after installation.KB article: 960714 Thanks,Theo Get what you want at ebay. Get rid of those unwanted christmas presents! _________________________________________________________________ Want to marry your mail? Combine your email accounts here! http://livelife.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=669758

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Hostname aliases
by Padraig.Lennon＠pioneerinvestments.com 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi, I have a windows server which has multiple DNS entries. Is it possible to configure an alias for the different names? i.e. Server is actually called prodwinserver1.domain.com put also has another reference devwinserver1.domain.com I would like to show the host in seperate pages which are exposed to different groups. Each should only see their reference to the server: i.e. The prod group should see prodwinserver1.domain.com The dev group should see devwinserver1.domain.com Is this possible? regards, Padraig Lennon Senior Systems Integration Engineer Pioneer Investments Management Ltd 5th Floor | 1 Georges Quay Plaza | Georges Quay | Dublin 2 | Rep. of Ireland. Tel. +353 (0)1 480.2081 | Fax. +353 (0)1 480.1111 padraig.lennon at pioneerinvestments.com <mailto:firstname.surname at pioneerinvestments.com> | www.pioneerinvestments.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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