November 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Sub-Page notifications
by wshart＠hormel.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Has anyone tried to use the "page" setting in hobbit-alerts ? I've noticed a couple of things with it, one isn't a huge deal, the other one is. The first thing I noticed was that page only works for the primary listing on the machines, so if you have a #noconn setting that page won't work with the page tag in hobbit-alerts.cfg The next thing that is a much bigger problem is that we have a sub-Page that we wanted to have alerts on, but that doesn't seem to trigger on the "page" tag either. Is there any work-around on this ? It would be nice to be able to utilize the sub page notifications since we have to maintain those lists anyway for our various groups. Otherwise I can re-(re-)organize the bb-hosts file without the subpage settings, but that isn't optimal necessarily either. Thanks, Bill Hart Technical Services Associate Systems Programmer Notice: This communication is an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. ? 2510. Its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient(s) intended by the sender of this message. This transmission and any attachments may contain proprietary, confidential, attorney-client privileged information and/or attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, reliance on, or use of any of the information contained herein is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any matter and confirm by return email.

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problem installing client on Snow Leopard server
by brian.weslowski＠tessarae.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I am trying to install the Xymon client on my Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server (10.6.1). I had it running fine on my Tiger server before I upgraded, but now cannot install on Snow Leopard. I've tried both the 4.2.3 and 4.3.0 beta 2 packages but get the same errors with both. Has anyone else tried this yet? The errors I got when running "./configure --client; make" are below. Thank you. Brian Weslowski Director of Information Technology TessArae, LLC 46090 Lake Center Plaza, Suite 304 Potomac Falls, VA 20165 703-444-7188 x108 brian.weslowski at tessarae.com http://www.tessarae.com Created Makefile with the necessary information to build Xymon Some defaults are used, so do look at the Makefile before continuing. Configuration complete - now run make (GNU make) to build the tools CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT - DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDarwin - I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DDarwin" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="" LIBRTDEF="" BBTOPDIR="/Users/xymon" BBLOGDIR="" BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="10.0.1.5" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no" make -C lib client gcc -g -O -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 - D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDarwin -I. -I/Users/ administrator/Downloads/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../ include -o test-endianness test-endianness.c In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:61, from test-endianness.c:17: ./Availability.h:18: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:32: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:43: error: expected ')' before 'duration' ./Availability.h:45: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:45: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:49: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' ./Availability.h:49: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'time_t' In file included from test-endianness.c:17: /usr/include/stdlib.h:289: error: expected ',' or ';' before '__OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DEPRECATED' make[1]: *** [test-endianness] Error 1 make: *** [lib-client] Error 2

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Trying to send to dual xymon servers
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Sorry for this entry being so long. I am trying to include as much info as possible. Running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 on CentOS 5.3. I am trying to send to 2 xymon servers (Primary - monitor1, Secondary - monitor2) from multiple clients. CLIENTS BEING TESTED: o Linux (tomvip) o BBWin (sltst03) o Current BB clients that are in service (slcts00) It worked after we set the 1984 TCP port in the firewall for a short time and then quit. I am also having the same problem when setting the BBWin to point to both server (it works and then it stops to one of them). If I add both addresses to the actual BB windows client, they both report the exact same icons to both servers and the BB server. I was able to get both the BB and the BBWin clients to run on the same Windows server. We setup a different registry name for the BBWin client (e.g. slcts00 vs. slcts00.csw.L-3com.com for BB). I have the iptables firewalls on both monitor1 and monitor2 OFF. cd /etc/init.d ./iptables stop I get PURPLE icons on monitor1 and OK icons on monitor2: (for Linux, but just dashed for BBWin). G=green, W=white, P=purple conn cpu disk files http info memory/mem msgs ports procs ssh sslcert trends svcs Monitor1: tomvip.csw.l-3com.com G P P P G G P P P P G G G Monitor1: slcts00.csw.l-3com.com G G G G G G G G G (BB Client) Monitor1: sltst03.csw.L-3com.com G G G G G G G G G (BBWin also uptime, who) Monitor2: tomvip.csw.l-3com.com G G G W G G G G W W G G G Monitor1: slcts00.csw.l-3com.com G G G G G G G G G (BB Client) Monitor1: sltst03.csw.L-3com.com G -- -- G -- -- -- G -- (BBWin) tomvip.csw.l-3com.com: Beginning of file from /root/XYMON/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg: #----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- # You may not have to set HOBBITCLIENTHOME= or BBOSTYPE= but I set them here #----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- # Directory for the Hobbit client files HOBBITCLIENTHOME=/root/XYMON/client BBOSTYPE=linux # List can include: # aix, dynix, greebsd, hp-ux, irix, linux # redhat, debian, openbsd, netbds, osf # sco, unixware, sunos, solaris, etc. # See: http://xymon.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:bbswap # For setup up of an extension script to monitor swap space. #----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- # TO REPORT TO MORE THAN ONE XYMON SERVER JUST ADD MORE THAN ONE BBDISP= LINE # You can use either the IP Addresses or the URLs. #----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- BBDISP="monitor1.csw.l-3com.com" # IP address of the 1st Hobbit server BBDISP="monitor2.csw.l-3com.com" # IP address of the 2nd Hobbit server-if setup BBDISPLAYS="0.0.0.0" # IP of multiple Hobbit servers. # BBDISP must be "0.0.0.0". CONFIGCLASS="$BBOSTYPE" # Default configuration class for logfiles # PATH setting for the client scripts PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/etc" I have tried it without the BBDISPLAYS="" set - still the same output. Messages on tomvip from /root/XYMON/client/logs/hobbitclient.log: 2009-10-26 13:21:26 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-10-26 13:31:31 Could not connect to bbd at monitor1.csw.l-3com.com:1984 - No route to host 2009-10-26 13:31:31 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-10-26 13:36:43 Could not connect to bbd at monitor1.csw.l-3com.com:1984 - No route to host 2009-10-26 13:36:43 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-10-26 13:41:37 Could not connect to bbd at monitor1.csw.l-3com.com:1984 - No route to host 2009-10-26 13:41:37 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed I can ping the monitor1 server with no problems. BB-HOSTS Entries for: (wrapped lines for ease of reading) MONITOR1: 127.0.0.1 monitor1.csw.l-3com.com # bbd conn ssh http://monitor1.csw.l-3com.com apache=http://monitor1.csw.l-3com.com/server-status? auto TRENDS:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3 128.170.1.161 monitor2.csw.l-3com.com # bbd conn ssh http://monitor2.csw.l-3com.com apache=http://monitor2.csw.l-3com.com/server-status? auto TRENDS:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3 128.170.1.203 tomvip.csw.l-3com.com # conn ssh tftp http://tomvip.csw.l-3com.com/ https://tomvip.csw.l-3com.com./ MONITOR2: 128.170.1.151 monitor1.csw.l-3com.com # bbd conn ssh http://monitor1.csw.l-3com.com apache=http://monitor1.csw.l-3com.com/server-status? auto TRENDS:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3 127.0.0.1 monitor2.csw.l-3com.com # bbd conn ssh http://monitor2.csw.l-3com.com apache=http://monitor2.csw.l-3com.com/server-status? auto TRENDS:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3 128.170.1.203 tomvip.csw.l-3com.com :q! # conn ssh tftp http://tomvip.csw.l-3com.com/ https://tomvip.csw.l-3com.com/ RULES for iptables (iptables -L): zCurrently Running: (iptables stopped) Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination [root at monitor2 ~]# When firewall is enabled: [root at monitor2 ~]# cat IPTABLES-L.txt Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any ACCEPT esp -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT ah -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT udp -- anywhere 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:mdns ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ipp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ipp ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:smtp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ssh ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp dpt:netbios-ns ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp dpt:netbios-dgm ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:netbios-ssn ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:microsoft-ds ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:https ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:http ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:bb REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited [root at monitor2 ~]# I am getting more confused as I go along, something works and then it stops working and I am not sure what I did to change the results? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D Phone (801) 594-3030 Cell (801) 231-7230 D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\|||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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[hobbit] monitor processes by owner
by josie_wells＠yahoo.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Thank you Bruce, Patrick, Jerald and David for your suggestions. Although Patrick's idea sounds good I would like to monitor other processes as well if possible. To confirm the the reasoning behind what I am trying to do, I am trying to see if the number of oracle owned processes ever comes close to the limit defined by the OS (MAXUPROC I think it's called) - a problem we have had in the past. Therefore I'd like it to include all oracle processes rather than monitoring the oracle port as Bruce suggests. Maybe the custom script is the way to go - but I'd really like to avoid that if I can. Josie --- On Mon, 11/2/09, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote: > From: White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com> > Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 3:26 PM > I track and graph Oracle DB > connections and connections to our Oracle forms server not > via processes but by port connections. This is easily > done under the ports test, without any changes to > code. In your hobbit-clients.cfg file, add a PORT rule > which defines the port used to make the connection and a > TRACK option. > > .....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. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Nixon [mailto:pnixon at gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:58 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner > > Sort of similar to Jerald's idea, but it'll get you the > graphs easier. :) > > On your db server, go into the client's etc directory and > modify the hobbitclient.cfg. > > changing > PS="ps ax" > to > PS="ps ax | $GREP oracle" > > Caveat: This will restrict you to *JUST* monitoring > processes for oracle, nothing else on the server in > question. > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Sheets, Jerald <Jerald.Sheets at turner.com> > wrote: > > How about write a custom script that is green when > your ps -ef |grep > > <procname> has the appropriate user, yellow if > say, 1 or two is owned > > by someone else, and maybe red if 5 or more? > > > > You could also do no middle ground, too. Green > or red. > > > > Fairly trivial, but it would not be monitored as a > PROC, it would be a > > custom check. > > > > Jerald Sheets > > Sr. Systems Engineer > > CNN News Systems > > * Jerald.Sheets at turner.com > > * 404.878.0566 *404.293.8762 > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Josie Wells [mailto:josie_wells at yahoo.com] > > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:40 AM > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > > Subject: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner > > > > Hi, > > > > I am new to this mailing list so apologies if I am > breaking any > > protocol by sending this mail out to this address - I > have searched > > the faqs and can find no answer. > > > > What I am trying to do is to monitor processes by the > owner. > > > > In hobbit-clients.cfg I can specify a string to search > for in the > > process name but I can find no way to look in the USER > column. > > > > If I could, then I could get a count of processes > owned by oracle and > > graph it out. > > > > Is this possible? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Josie > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > > > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > > > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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alert only on down service
by dave＠antognini.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi guys, Simple question, probably answered somewhere but I can't find it. How do I alert only on a service (win) that is down? I tried Services=svcs in hobbit-alert and it didn't work Thanks Dave

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[hobbit] monitor processes by owner
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I track and graph Oracle DB connections and connections to our Oracle forms server not via processes but by port connections. This is easily done under the ports test, without any changes to code. In your hobbit-clients.cfg file, add a PORT rule which defines the port used to make the connection and a TRACK option. .....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. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Nixon [mailto:pnixon at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:58 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner Sort of similar to Jerald's idea, but it'll get you the graphs easier. :) On your db server, go into the client's etc directory and modify the hobbitclient.cfg. changing PS="ps ax" to PS="ps ax | $GREP oracle" Caveat: This will restrict you to *JUST* monitoring processes for oracle, nothing else on the server in question. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Sheets, Jerald <Jerald.Sheets at turner.com> wrote: > How about write a custom script that is green when your ps -ef |grep > <procname> has the appropriate user, yellow if say, 1 or two is owned > by someone else, and maybe red if 5 or more? > > You could also do no middle ground, too. Green or red. > > Fairly trivial, but it would not be monitored as a PROC, it would be a > custom check. > > Jerald Sheets > Sr. Systems Engineer > CNN News Systems > * Jerald.Sheets at turner.com > * 404.878.0566 *404.293.8762 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Josie Wells [mailto:josie_wells at yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:40 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner > > Hi, > > I am new to this mailing list so apologies if I am breaking any > protocol by sending this mail out to this address - I have searched > the faqs and can find no answer. > > What I am trying to do is to monitor processes by the owner. > > In hobbit-clients.cfg I can specify a string to search for in the > process name but I can find no way to look in the USER column. > > If I could, then I could get a count of processes owned by oracle and > graph it out. > > Is this possible? > > Many thanks > > Josie > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Maintaining original Hobbit / Xymon server
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I too could use a copy of your scripts as I am converting my hobbit server on HP-UX 11.0 to a Xymon server on RedHat AS 5.2. 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. ________________________________ From: Hermann-Josef Beckers [mailto:hj.beckers at kreis-steinfurt.de] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:35 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Maintaining original Hobbit / Xymon server Hi Stef, > You can migrate the rrd files (rrd -> xml -> rrd). > And you can change the data points. > I have scripts for both. > Can you send me the scripts? Maybe it helps me with my problem (see thread "Problem converting 32 bit disk-rrd's to 64 bit"). Thanks hjb

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