November 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Server side scripts not running
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi all, I am clearly missing something basic here but I can't figure out what it is and I can't find anything that looks like my problem in the archives. I have written a script that should be run on the Xymon server. It does an LDAP update on my LDAP master server, waits ten seconds then checks that this value has been replicated to all the other LDAP servers. The script is /opt/hobbit/server/ext/ldap_check_replication and when run as the Hobbit user like so: $ server/bin/bbcmd server/ext/ldap_check_replication it runs fine and the web pages are updated. The problem is in getting it to be run by the Xymon server. I created an entry in the hobbitlaunch.cfg file as that seemed to be the right place to put it, I created the following entry: ---- # "replicate_ldap" runs the in-house LDAP replication checks. [replicate_ldap] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD /opt/hobbit/server/ext/ldap_check_replication LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/replicate_ldap.log INTERVAL 5m ---- But it refuses to run and nothing is mentioned in any log files anywhere! I would appreciate your input. |\/|artin -- Martin W. Ward Manager, Technical Assistance COLT Unit 12, Powergate Business Park Volt Avenue, Park Royal, London NW10 6PW, United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0)20 7863 5218 Internal: 8 441 5218 Fax: + 44 (0)20 7863 5610 Email: martin.ward at colt.net www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services ************************************************************************************* The message is intended for the named addressee only and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone else, nor may it be copied in any way. The contents of this message and its attachments are confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the named addressee and/or have received this message in error, please advise us by e-mailing security at colt.net and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Internet communications are not secure and COLT does not accept responsibility for this message, its contents nor responsibility for any viruses. No contracts can be created or varied on behalf of COLT Telecommunications, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("COLT") and any other party by email Communications unless expressly agreed in writing with such other party. Please note that incoming emails will be automatically scanned to eliminate potential viruses and unsolicited promotional emails. For more information refer to www.colt.net or contact us on +44(0)20 7390 3900.

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ntpdate deprecated
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Today, I discovered the following for the ntp-test on our Xymon server: Service ntp on xymon is OK (up) Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 132.229.84.242 2>&1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more. To quote the upstream ntp developers: "The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon itself. If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will retrieve the current time and set it accordingly." Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate for further information. You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf. The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate. Specifically sntp -P no -r pool.ntp.org is equivalent to ntpdate pool.ntp.org For further details please refer to the man page of sntp. sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid sntp: Permission denied http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate#Set_the_time_before_… I always thought I needed to run this ntp-test to make sure the time is correct on the central monitor server, to make sure that the time on other monitored hosts is checked correctly. Should I - change the NTPDATE="ntpdate"-location in /etc/hobbit/hobbitserver.cfg to NTPDATE="sntp -u" to make it work again? - disable the ntp-test since because it is useless for checking the correct time on monitored hosts. Regards, Peter

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Question about hobbitd_rrd
by Tom.Stewart＠landsend.com 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

All, I am trying to find out if I change settings hobbitd_rrd.c From newrec->key = strdup(""); newrec->defs = (char **)malloc(4 * sizeof(char *));; newrec->defs[0] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:576"); newrec->defs[1] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:3456"); newrec->defs[2] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:13824"); newrec->defs[3] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:27648"); newrec->count = 4; rbtInsert(rrddeftree, newrec->key, newrec); To newrec->key = strdup(""); newrec->defs = (char **)malloc(4 * sizeof(char *));; newrec->defs[0] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:576"); newrec->defs[1] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:27648"); newrec->defs[2] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:27648"); newrec->defs[3] = strdup("RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:27648"); newrec->count = 4; rbtInsert(rrddeftree, newrec->key, newrec); and recompile. Does this only affect new created files with xymon or will it start giving me error messages on the previously created rrd files? Thank you, Tom

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Running scripts on request
by Jimmy.Aulestia＠telefonica.com.ec 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Can I run client scripts on request?, For example if only I click on hobbit subpage to a script is executed, the script could be to download an application I don't want to run continuously the scripts at an interval. Thanks

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FW: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.2 and IOSTAT on AIX - followup question
by Mike.Wood＠kci1.com 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi All, I have IOSTAT working on AIX (!), with only a minor issue. I'm graphing by VG aggregate data. I have the iostat-vg.rrd files for all of the volume groups. My test server graphs reads and writes, 4 VG to a graph. However, I'm left with 4 empty graph slots at the bottom. All VG's are accounted for. Any idea what might cause this problem? Mike Wood UNIX System Administrator Kinetic Concepts Inc. 5751 NW Parkway San Antonio, TX, 78249 E-mail: mike.wood at kci1.com Skype: mike.wood77 Office: (210) 255-6382 Mobile: (210) 825-5134 ***************************************************************************** "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and is likely to contain privileged, proprietary and confidential information that is exempt from disclosure requests under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at postmaster at kci1.com." Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ******************************************************************************

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problem with alerting
by bb4＠richter-it.net 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi there, I'm running XYmon 4.3.0-beta2 on the main server and XYmon 4.3.0-0.20080929 on the standby server. Both servers are running Debian 5.0.3 and XYmon was compiled from source. Now I'm experiencing a strange problem. I added some alerts to hobbit-alerts.cfg that should do the following: if a service (cluster, conn, disk, ports, procs or eDIR) is switching to red and stays red for more than 15 minutes a mail will be sent to a defined address. No repeat. I created a macro with the following parameters: $NOVELL=MAIL user at domain.tld REPEAT=0 COLOR=red RECOVERED EXHOST=%-rib.* SERVICE=cluster,conn,disk,eDIR,ports,procs DURATION>15 and below that I created the alert entry: HOST=%^fs.* $NOVELL When I run bin/hobbitd_alert --config=etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg --dump-config it expands to: HOST=%^fs.* MAIL user at domain.tld FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=0 EXHOST=%-rib.* SERVICE=cluster,conn,disk,eDIR,ports,procs COLOR=red DURATION>15 RECOVERED which seems to be ok. Also when I look at the info page of one of the servers it looks good: ServiceRecipient1st DelayStop afterRepeatTime of DayColors conn user at domain.tld(R) 15m - - - red disk user at domain.tld (R) 15m - - - red eDIR user at domain.tld (R) 15m - - - red ports user at domain.tld (R) 15m - - - red procs user at domain.tld (R) 15m - - - red But last night the service ports went down for over 4 hours on 1 client and XYmon sent out emails every minute which should not be done if I understood the configuration right. It did send the mails from both servers although [bbpage] is disabled on the standby server. What I am doing wrong? I had a similar problem on another XYmon server (4.2.0) and there I set the REPEAT to 1 day and it disappeared. But that can't be the solution. Any help would be appreciated. Regards Torsten

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how to decrease default step of 300sec to 60sec in hobbitd_rrd
by norbert.kriegenburg＠de.ibm.com 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi guys, we are monitoring with BigBrother/bbgen/xymon since a couple of years now with great success. Nothings beats the flexibility and speed of xymon. But now I have a problem I can't find a solution for (xymon 4.2.3. on RHEL): I have to design all the rrd files to collect data with a cycle of 60sec insted of the default 300sec. I found the places where I have to set up the new definitions of the RRAs in hobbitd_rrd.c: static char rra1[] = "RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:2880"; /* 60s for 2d */ static char rra2[] = "RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:5:20160"; /* 60s for 2w */ static char rra3[] = "RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:15:5760"; /* 900s for 8w */ static char rra4[] = "RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:60:12096"; /* 1h for 18m */ static char rra5[] = "RRA:MAX:0.5:1:2880"; static char rra6[] = "RRA:MAX:0.5:5:20160"; static char rra7[] = "RRA:MAX:0.5:15:5760"; static char rra8[] = "RRA:MAX:0.5:60:12096"; and the definitions in do_*.c to: sprintf(dsdef, "DS:lambda:%s:120:U:U", dstype); and so on to reflect the shorter cycle. Compiled everything, and copy the new hobbit_rrd as hobbit_rrd1minute into $BBHOME/bin I created a new channel (in parallel to the working hobbit_rrd) with own rrd-dir and logfile: [rrdstatus1minute] ENVFILE /opt/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log= $BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-status1minute.log hobbitd_rrd1minute --rrddir= $BBVAR/rrd1minute INTERVAL 1m Everything is working, the rrdfiles where created, but if I do a "rrdtool info examplefile.rrd", I only find the default step of 300s: rrd_version = "0003" step = 300 last_update = 1257631284 ds[lambda].type = "GAUGE" ds[lambda].minimal_heartbeat = 120 There are no values collected ("NaN"), and all files where updated only every 5min and not every 60s. I did'nt find the place, where I can define the rrdcreate with "--step 60". Unfortunately I have no chance to switch everything to extra-scripts, because we have a quite complex and dynamic environment in our monitoring and I'm glad, that everything is running smooth (mostly using SPLITNCV). Any hints, what I have to change to collect my rrd-values with a 60sec cycle? help is greatly appreciated thank you Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Norbert Kriegenburg

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bbegn --docurl and Legend Question
by wiskbroom＠hotmail.com 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hello All; I am running xymon 4.2.2 and I am curious about the following: 1. I would like to hyperlink all of my hosts, perhaps with a few excludes, to something using the following? ~/server/bin/bbgen --docurl=http://systeminfo/ServersForm.aspx?name=%s The problem is that my pages get totally messed up (broken gifs), then a few seconds later recover. I know that I must be using bbgen improperly, so I am hoping for a few pointers in the right direction so that my entries for my hosts are shown with hyperlinks to additional info as shown when the link is visited. Is their an entry that I must make in a file under etc? I've looked and am unable to find any. 2. My prior version of BB BTF has a legend at the bottom, is their any way to show the legend at the bottom of xymon? A few of my users are asking for this as they are clueless to what the icons all mean. Thank you! .vp

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need custom windows ext scripts - paying gig
by dave＠antognini.com 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Guys is there someone here who can code some windows ext scripts for me? I am looking to gather all the data from HP server agents..hardware status, raid, errors, inventory etc. Must be done from the client side because boxes are behind fw. Dave

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Hobbit 4.2 and IOSTAT on AIX
by Mike.Wood＠kci1.com 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hi All, I've seen bits and pieces and references in the archives, but is there a clearly documented process / procedure anywhere for getting iostat graphs functional for AIX clients? Thanks! Mike Wood UNIX System Administrator Kinetic Concepts Inc. 5751 NW Parkway San Antonio, TX, 78249 E-mail: mike.wood at kci1.com Skype: mike.wood77 Office: (210) 255-6382 Mobile: (210) 825-5134 ***************************************************************************** "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and is likely to contain privileged, proprietary and confidential information that is exempt from disclosure requests under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at postmaster at kci1.com." Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ******************************************************************************

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