November 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

maint mode from command line
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠elavon.com 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hi, Is there a way to issue a command to put a list of servers into maint mode instead of having to select them from the GUI? I would like to maybe automate this with a cron job Thank kh ----------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this e-mail and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the e-mail from your computer. Elavon (formerly NOVA Information Systems)

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bb-snapshot - apache error 500...
by Mathias.Carlsson＠systeam.se 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hi! I've got a problem with apache2 giving me a 500 error when I try to run a snapshot report... I'm running on a Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit platform and XYmon 4.3.0 svn rev. 6177... The errorl in the web-browser is: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster at localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. ________________________________ Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch Server at 192.9.210.146 Port 80 And the error.log says: [Mon Jun 22 11:37:00 2009] [error] [client 192.9.210.83] Premature end of script headers: bb-snapshot.sh, referer: http://192.168.210.146/xymon-cgi/bb-snapshot.sh Are there anybody who knows how to fix this?? ________________________________ Mathias Carlsson VMware | Storage | Networking | Security www.systeam.se<https://outlook.systeam.se/OWA/redir.aspx?C=86f815296451461cb0ec17a8f0b8266…> SYSteam Anderstorp * Stötabogatan 1* SE-334 24 Anderstorp T: +46 (0)371 - 58 85 29 * F: +46 (0)371 - 169 67 ________________________________ Detta meddelande innehåller information som kan vara av sekretesskaraktär eller på annat sätt hemlig och ägs av SYSteam Datakonsult i Anderstorp AB. Meddelandet är endast avsedd för personen till vilken den är adresserad. Om du inte är den avsedda mottagaren, har du ej tillåtelse att läsa, skriva, spara, kopiera, distribuera eller använda meddelandet eller del av meddelandet. Om du mottar meddelandet av misstag, var vänlig och meddela avsändaren omgående samt ta bort meddelandet och alla kopior av detsamma.

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[hobbit] hobbit monitoring summary report
by bb4＠richter-it.net 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Hello, well you could do a ALLCLIENTS=`$HOBBITSERVERHOME/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard"|awk -F\| '{print $1}'|sort -u|wc -l` to get all clients that actually report to your server. As second step do a INSTCLIENTS=`$HOBBITSERVERHOME/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=cpu"|awk -F\| '{print $1}'|sort -u|wc -l` to get all clients that have client installed monitoring. I assume if a client is installed then it also reports a cpu status. Finally do CLIENTLESS=$((ALLCLIENTS-INSTCLIENTS)). However, clients polled via SNMP are also show the cpu status but have no client installed. But I hope to have helped you a bit. Cheers Torsten Hi, Is there better way of reporting this? Purpose: to report how many active client and client-less monitoring are done by hobbit. My method: 1. for client installed monitoring, count the number of /home/hobbit/data/rrd/*/vmstat.rrd that are recent (ie. newer than a date file created earlier, say 5am) 2. for client-less monitoring, count the number of latest /home/hobbit/data/histlogs/*/conn/ or /home/hobbit/data/histlogs/*/http/ (if both exist, then count only one) that are recent (see def. above). (some clients may not be pingable; multiple web pages on the same server should be counted only once). Thanks, Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free!

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BBWin Central vs Local Configuration
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.co.uk 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hi, Does anyone know why the information displayed on Xymon is so different depending on whether you set BBWin to use centralised or local configuration? For example, services in central mode list all available services, whereas in local mode it only shows the ones you want to monitor - centralised mode also doesn't allow spaces in the service name. In centralised mode, it seems to be hit or miss whether it reports on events in the system log (some clients work, some don't), whereas in local mode it works fine. I think we may be sticking with local mode and finding a way to deploy configuration files for now. Thanks, Malcolm -- Technical copy-editor & proofreader KDE Proofreading Team KDE British English Translation Team http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FriendlyAtheist GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01

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"Main View" Help Needed
by wiskbroom＠hotmail.com 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

I currently have 7 sites which I intend to monitor using xymon. I've already configured each site using "page site1group Site1", each including several "group-compress" statements that break down the site for additional items like "Windows Servers", "XP Desktops", "Windows-7 Desktops", "Netgear", "Linux Servers", etc. So far, it looks and works beautifully. What I'd like to do now is to create a separating break followed by additional "pages" labeled "Windows Servers", "XP Desktops", "Windows-7 Desktops", "Netgear", "Linux Servers", etc. The difference between what is contained in the "page" under "XP Desktops" on my "Main View" and Site1's "XP Desktops" are that the one under "Main View" would contain ALL of the firms "XP Desktops" and Site1 would contain only those. My question is, how do I create the separator, and how do I make the pages, grouped by function as I've stated? I know that I can just keep creating more pages, but I wish to have them separate and with a different title as well. Thanks, .vp

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dynamic comment
by bb4＠richter-it.net 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hi, is it possible to use a dynamic comment in bb-hosts? In Big Brother I patched mkbb2.sh to display a phone number next to the name that changed depending of the time of day. These phone numbers were taken from a separate config file. But with XYmon I only can put a comment to the line in bb-hosts and it is no solution to run a script that changes bb-hosts every time a number has to be changed. I'd like to have something like "COMMENT:$SCRIPTNAME" and this script then is called and gives you back the phone number that is then displayed next to the server name as comment. TIA Torsten

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devmon PID not running.
by am.srini＠gmail.com 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

*Hi Guys, Please, Please help me out. I have installed Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 on Sun Solaris* *(SunOS bsma06 5.10 Generic_139555-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R), I had successful installation. I had installed Devmonn-0.3.0. and SNMP_Session-1.13 also to monitor few network devices (Cisco Switches and routers). however when I grep for devmon no PID shows up as shown below: -bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep devmon root 6849 3708 0 14:06:33 pts/1 0:00 grep devmon -bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep Devmon root 6858 3708 0 14:06:42 pts/1 0:00 grep Devmon -bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep DEVMON root 6897 3708 0 14:07:01 pts/1 0:00 grep DEVMON As shown in devmon.cfg # PIDFILE: Sets the full path to the Devmon process ID file. The directory # containing this file should be read/writable by the user running the Devmon # process. (case sensitive) [DEFAULT: /var/run/devmon/devmon.pid] PIDFILE=/var/run/devmon/devmon.pid Please let me know what more details you may require. some info I am providing: I manually changed owner and group of files to root:root, earlier they were 501:501, which I didn't understand. /usr/local/**devmo**n -bash-3.00$ ls -l total 86 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 836 Nov 30 14:51 @!: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9001 Apr 3 2008 CHANGELOG -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15122 Apr 3 2008 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4935 Apr 3 2008 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1153 Apr 3 2008 devmon -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5999 Nov 30 14:08 devmon.cfg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 3 2008 docs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 3 2008 extras -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119 Nov 30 15:01 hosts.db drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 3 2008 modules drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 1024 Apr 3 2008 templates -bash-3.00$ Thanks so much. Srini *

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[hobbit] Hobbit: tests suddenly went purple and they did not reappear
by Francesco.Cicolani＠atac.roma.it 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

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Compile Issue with latest SVN version of 4.3.0
by iain＠shihad.org 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hey People, I have downloaded the latest SVN tarball and am having issues compiling xymon. The error I get is: In file included from do_rrd.c:546: rrd/do_net.c: In function ‘do_net_rrd’: rrd/do_net.c:123: error: ‘plusminuts’ undeclared (first use in this function) rrd/do_net.c:123: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once rrd/do_net.c:123: error: for each function it appears in.) rrd/do_net.c:131: error: ‘offset’ undeclared (first use in this function) I have rrdtoool-1.2.23-1 and I notice that this part of the function is not in the version that I am currently running. The code snippet that has the issue is: if ( offsetdirection && ((strcmp(offsetdirection, "+") == 0) || (strcmp(offsetdirection, "-") == 0)) && plusminuts && (strcmp(plusminus, "+/-") == 0) && secs && (strcmp(secs, "secs") == 0) ) { /* Looks sane */ sprintf(offsetval, "%s%s", offsetdirection, offset); } } if (offsetval) { sprintf(dataforntpstat, "offset=%s", offset); do_ntpstat_rrd(hostname, testname, classname, pagepaths, dataforntpstat, tstamp); } Any Ideas? If any more info needed please do not hesitate to ask Cheers Iain

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Hobbit: tests suddenly went purple and they did not reappear
by Francesco.Cicolani＠atac.roma.it 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

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