October 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Alert if a list of devices that are not related are all down?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

I would like to have XYMON: E.G. All printers are down at the same time - ALERT All printers just came back up at the same time - NOTIFY/ALERT I need to watch multiple printers in a building to see if they are ALL down (or come up) at the same time. This is the makings of a POWER OUTAGE EVENT for that building since the printers are not attached to a UPS. If all down, Possible Power Outage I know that the 'route:' can watch a path to a device and make the devices behind the down devices go YELLOW and the first device in the path go RED. I don't think that this would work for this type of alerting. I think this will require some sort of SCRIPT in the hobbit-alerts.cfg that is executed if any of the printers do not answer a ping. I have never written a SCRIPT for XYMON but am eager to learn. In this case the first printer that goes down, calls the script and the script would have to check if all the other printers are down. If I have a printer go down and it calls a bash shell script, is there a way to see if all the rest of the printers are down. If not, do not alert If all down, alert I would also need to go the other way: if a printer comes up (RECOVERED) are all the other printers up? This one is more tricky as you have to see when all the other printers came up. It would be a false alarm if a single printer went down and then came back up because you cannot just check to see if all the other printers are up. EXAMPLE: The rest of the printers may have been up and that would not be a POSSIBLE POWER EVENT. You must be able to see when the other printers came up last. The other alternative would be to use my scripts (running on the XYMON server) to watch the printers and then allow the scripts to trigger a RED/GREEN event. I have read where this can be done, but I have not found a good clear example of creating diamonds and icons for special purposes. This RED/GREEN event would then trigger the alerting from XYMON. Again, I have not found a good HOW-TO on setting up additional devices/diamonds for this purpose. Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D L-3 Communication Systems West 640 North 2200 West P.O. Box 16850 Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Phone (801) 594-3030 Cell (801) 231-7230 eFax (413) 480-6873 D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. Anonymous Think Green! Please print only what is necessary!

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[hobbit] Xymon hosts database.
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Looks good. Do you have plans to introduce the "template" and/or "group" concept? e.g. I have a template called "Windows" Apply it to my windows servers, they get defaults applied for thresholds. Eg. Cpu is set to 80% warning, disk is set to 75% full, certain services are checked, etc. Another template called "Apache" It gets process checks for http added to the host... My host called win-apache.example.com gets 2 templates applied to it. You can also override default settings for each host. Concepts from bbconfigure on deadcat ;) Makes large scale management much easier. Craig

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Hobbit alert colors
by tainted.soul69＠googlemail.com 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi Everyone, Is there any others colors besides green, red, yellow and blue that can be used. Can we add our own colors and pictures for those. Writting my own little VCS check script and would like perhaps something like and even a little picture of a tiny snow flake to represent the cluster being in a frozen state? I have everything working just the FROZEN state color not implemented yet? Regards Shaun.

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Windows Server 2008 - ifstat RRD files
by xymon.user.ml＠gmail.com 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

I have BBWin 0.12 installed on a good number of windows machines, mostly server 2003 but 5 or 6 run server 2008. All the 03 machines report network traffic fine. All of the 08 machines are seeing 'random' network adapter addresses and bogus traffic info. The following is an example of what's being reported under [ifstat]: 0.96.0.0 0 0 99.0.0.0 1598858570 2041621859 7.0.0.0 0 0 69.2.0.0 0 0 4.0.0.0 0 0 28.0.0.0 0 0 Those addresses change each time the client sends data. Anyone have a fix? Or at the very least turn off the creation of rrd files for these specific hosts. At the moment I have a few hosts with about 10,000 'network adapters' that all try to graph on the trends page. (Originally posted to the BBWin list last week but no replies yet. There's more eyes here anyway.) Thanks

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Xymon hosts database.
by david.peters＠dpi.nsw.gov.au 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

I think I have posted this quite a while ago but it is still on my mind. We currently configure the hosts, pages etc using a windows database and windows front end that I wrote quite some time ago. I keep getting the urge to convert it to a linux database and a web frontend. However I would not do this if there is no interest in using it. The point is that you never touch the bb-hosts file and all configuration of hosts and layouts is done via a user interface. Is there any interest in this? Is there anyone willing to help? If so I was going to convert to mysql and either php or perl cgi. Any comments on this? We have 400 odd hosts here and have pages split by priority, service, location, and support group all on the front page but all configured via the database. Currently the bb-hosts is built via a perl script that extracts the database and then generates a main bb-hosts file plus include files for each sub-page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Peters +61 2 63913565 +61 4 17863572 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of their organisation.

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Checking if both links for Cisco CEF are down?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Using the 'route:' keyword, is there a way to create dependencies when you are using a Cisco router with 2 T-1s using Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)? I have a remote router that has 2 T-1s balancing using CEF. Behind this router are multiple devices that need to not alert if both T-1s are down. This would be very similar to have a single T-1 line to the remote site except I have to be able to group both T-1s together. Can you do something like: Near end router: Ethernet port Local-Eth Near end router: Serial 0 and Serial 1 Local-S0 and Local-S1 To Far end router: Serial 0 and Serial 1 respectively Remote-Eth Far end router: Ethernet port Remote-S0 and Remote-S1 To Rest of the network at the remote site e.g. Remote-Switch Can you group devices together using ()'s? Something like: I want Remote-Switch to depend upon both T-1s being down: 10.10.10.10 Local-Eth 10.10.20.20 Local-S0 10.10.20.21 Local-S1 10.10.20.22 Remote-S0 10.10.20.23 Remote-S1 10.10.30.30 Remote-Eth 10.10.30.31 Remote-Switch # route:Remote-Eth,(Remote-S0,Remote-S1),Local-Eth Would this work? This says that the Remote-Switch needs to have the Remote-Eth (Ethernet) connection as a dependency. It also needs both T-1s up and the Local-Eth (Ethernet) connection up. CEF is a Cisco balancing protocol for multiple same connections to a remote location. If one T-1 is down, the other T-1 will be tasked with handling all the traffic. When the down T-1 returns, it again participates in the traffic load. Thanks, Tom Schmitt

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Critical systems view editing
by sholmes42＠mac.com 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Quick, and I hope, simple question. In Hobbit 4.2.0 I am just learning about setting up the critical systems view. It appears that you can't have more than one test defined for a given host or have a host cloned from more than one master record. Is that true? The documentation only talks about having one test in the test field and my testing indicates that that is also true. So, if I have two critical services on one host or set of hosts (e.g. smbd and httpd) how would I get those into the critical systems page? Thanks, Steve Holmes Purdue University

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Checking DB2 databases
by URMM＠VM.MARIST.EDU 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Can anyone tell me if the dbcheck.pl script will work for a DB2 database? I found an old note in the archive that mentions that it will support DB2. However, when I downloaded the package and read the README files, there is no mention of it. Is anyone actually using it for DB2, or perhaps something else? Martha McConaghy Marist College

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network interfaces showing up in trends graphs
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Does anyone know how to get rid of these interfaces so they don't show up? Running xymon 4.2.3 on solaris ______________________________________________________________________ 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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[hobbit] HOBBITMENU issue on xymon 4.3.0 debian stable
by pkc_mls＠yahoo.fr 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Buchan Milne a écrit : > On Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:40:23 pkc_mls wrote: > I believe this is particular to the Debian packages. Which "source code" did > you search through? "Upstream", or the source tree of a dpkg build of the > Debian package? Hi, I searched through the source code available at hobbitmon.sourceforge.net. > > Regards, > Buchan

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