October 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

DURATION= question?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Can you use the DURATION= command to create a boundary? Are the KEYWORDS capitalized? Or is it just for reading? HOST=xxx SERVICE=conn RECOVERED DURATION>10m DURATION<2h This way the alerts would start after the 2nd run of Xymon and stop after 2 hours. Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D

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[hobbit] bug bbtest-net ping test xymon-4.3.0-beta2
by rbmlists＠gmail.com 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I have experienced the same issue. There's any king oh patch for that? Thanks Regards, Riccardo

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checking websites and DNS registration with xymon
by dhaycurrie＠leisurefitness.com 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I know I posted this in a previous email, but I still did not get any answer. I am trying to monitor websites that we have. Most of DNS domains points to the same web site. 1. How can I check the status of the domain registration? There is a dnsreg in the xymon demo pages, but I did not find any information regarding this feature or how to set it up 2. How can I monitor the IP address that a domain has. In the demo pages there is a check for IP, which probably would do what I want 3. Currently I am just checkin by using "0.0.0.0 www.domainname.com # noconn http://www.domainname.com" which works, but once an hour a couple of checks go red at the same time, and this is most likely due to slow response from the server. Basically I want to avoid DoSing the web server with my tests. Suggestions? David

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Which DNS query is causing delays
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

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[hobbit] Critical View / default Color
by nico＠crysto.org 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi, No way for this problem ? Thanks Nico On 24/09/09 11:34, "nico" <nico at crysto.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know if there is a way to change the default color on the > critical view. > > By default, it¹s Red+Yellow. > > Manually, you can set Red+Yellow+Purple. > > I would like to change the default by Red+Yellow+Purple. > > Thanks. > > Regards, > Nico > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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AUTO: Lars-Ole G Nielsen is out of the office (returning 19-10-2009)
by lnielsen4＠csc.com 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I am out of the office until 19-10-2009. Note: This is an automated response to your message "RE: [hobbit] Which DNS query is causing delays" sent on 9/10/09 14:25:32. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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disk monitoring queue length etc...
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I've searched many times on this list 'How to set up monitoring disk drives in Windows'. However, I've never found a real solution. So, we have done some scripting ourselved querying WMI and want to trend this output. If I use the Totals (for all the disks) it is pretty straight forward. This works as expected. However, if I would like to trend to a specific disk, it becomes more complex. My test for disk C produces the following: _DskQL:0 _DskRdQL:0 _DskWrQL:0 _DskBtsPerRd:17423 _DskBtsPerTr:11933 _DskBtsPerWr:11246 Now, what I would like to have is a rrd.file for each drive letter, in this case drive_c.rrd, (just like the disk-test, all the disks are shown in one graph but each disk has an rrd-file) but I do not know how to continue. Drives under Windows can have any letter (C, D, ...Z) and I do not want to fill in the entire alphabet in my hobbitserver.cfg, but perhaps this is the only way to go without real programming. But perhaps data trending, instead of status, would be a better approach. But how should I do this? Any help much appreciated. If this works, I will post the result on Xymonton. Regards, Peter

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Most stable version?
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi all, My current hobbit 4.2.0 server, running on HPUX 11v1 has served us well over the past almost three years, but the old rp5400 with 2x540 Mhz PARISC chips, monitoring 435 hosts across 3 continents is starting to run out of steam and its time it be replaced. I just got two new HP DL380 G5 servers which we purchased to build out as new Xymon servers (one for prod and one for DR). I am wondering what is currently the most stable release of Xymon? I see 4.3.0-beta2 is the most recent. Would that be the best to use for new production monitors? I am building them with RedHat AS 5 update 2. Anybody know of any Gotha's I should be aware of? Finally, I have seen comments about people who have written scripts to transfer the data out of RRD files an old server to their new server. Since I am migrating from HPUX to RedHat, I gather that is my only option to migrate the RRD data. Anyone out there willing to share their scripts which do this migration? That would sure save me a lot of coding and testing time. Thanks in Advance, Bruce Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc.

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Xymon thresholds using a date
by wrichardson＠llbean.com 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Here is my issue. From Nov 1 - Dec 30 my systems CPU, Memory and usage in general is increased 2 to 3 time over the rest of the year. I would like to have 2 sets of thresholds one for Jan - Oct and another for Nov - Dec. Any way to have 2 thresholds set per system monitored? The only thing I can think of would be to maintain 2 hobbit-clients.cfg and copy them back and forth as needed. This may be my answer :) Looking in the hobbit-clients.cfg MAN pages I see: TIME=timespecification Rule matching by the time-of-day. This is speci- fied as the DOWNTIME time specification in the bb-hosts file. E.g. "TIME=W:0800:2200" applied to a rule will make this rule active only on week-days between 8AM and 10PM. So the "TIME" is available but no "Date" and you can only have one entry. So in the example above the "TIME" rule would only be active Monday - Friday from 08:00 - 22:00 and all other time the default would apply. Anyone have this issue? Any thoughts on a better way? Thanks

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Conn time discrepancy
by wshart＠hormel.com 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I've searched the archives and didn't find anything, I'm hoping someone here has some insight. Occasionally we'll notice some drastic change in the graphing on Xymon for the conn times, and when I bring these up with the networking folks they basically dismiss it because the labels on the side of the scale are "wrong". What I'm seeing is that the Y axis is being labeled as "Seconds" with the "m" after the scale, and it reports around 40-80mS for ping times. This isn't what we're seeing from the box itself though when we execute the same hobbitping :

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