November 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Align Entries Left (bb-hosts question)
by wiskbroom＠hotmail.com 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Hello; I have a "group-compress" entry that is aligning in the center of my page and I wish to align it on the left for a better look. Is there a way to do this, I am guessing in bb-hosts. Thank you, .vp

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Purple color change
by arun.thangappandi＠ge.com 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Can any body let me know, the time duration which hobbit will wait to change status to purple if client is not reporting data? And can we customize this time duration? If so please let me know the configuration where it can be done. Regards, -Arun

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[hobbit] Telephone ack using asterisk server
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

----- "d tom schmitt" <d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com> wrote: > I would like to front end the ack of an outage by having the person > call into an Asterisk PBX-in-a-Flash(PiaF) system. > > The user would then be prompted for the associate information. > > The script would then ssh (no-password/using cert) to the Xymon system > and issue a command line to ack the outage. > > > > Is there a place you can point me to the ack info using the command > line. Line 110 of web/hobbit-ackinfo.c has the following: /* ackinfo HOST.TEST\nlevel\nvaliduntil\nackedby\nmsg */ bbmsg = (char *)malloc(1024 + strlen(hostname) + strlen(testname) + strlen(ackedby) + strlen(ackmsg)); sprintf(bbmsg, "ackinfo %s.%s\n%d\n%d\n%s\n%s\n", hostname, testname, level, validity, ackedby, ackmsg); res = sendmessage(bbmsg, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, BBTALK_TIMEOUT); So, it would appear you should be able to use 'bb' to send an appropriate message, as shown in the comment. (this could be added to the 'bb' man page if it would be of interest). Regards, Buchan

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Telephone ack using asterisk server
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

I would like to front end the ack of an outage by having the person call into an Asterisk PBX-in-a-Flash(PiaF) system. The user would then be prompted for the associate information. The script would then ssh (no-password/using cert) to the Xymon system and issue a command line to ack the outage. Is there a place you can point me to the ack info using the command line. I do not currently have any ack functions working other than the web page. I have already created scripts that use the .call file functions to send a Text-to-Speech (TTS) message if there are specific problems. I think that the marriage of the two systems can be a very good way to do out-of-band notification is the Internet or Email are having a problem. 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 \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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[hobbit] possible issue with two hobbit servers reporting for the same client?
by mmoldvan＠csc.com 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hello everyone, I have a question on monitoring separate filesystems with different thresholds. My hobbit-clients.cfg file on the Xymon server includes the following: (Names changed to protect the innocent of course). $MACRO=%^(asdf|qwer|jalopy).*(a|s|h|l).xyz.com HOST=$MACRO DISK / 90 95 GROUP=SOMEONES_PAGER DISK %^/.+$ 90 95 GROUP=SOMEONES_EMAIL DISK %^/export/data/subdir/subdir2/log.* 95 99 However, Xymon doesn't seem to honor the above DISK entries and still marks both "/export/data/subdir/subdir2/log" and "/export/data/subdir/subdir2/log2" as red when it hits 90%+ due to the DEFAULT entry. We recently migrated to Xymon from an aging Big Brother monitoring infrastructure, which had bb-dftab that had to be on all clients. From my understanding all of this is now handled on the server but the above just doesn't seem to be working. My questions at this point are: - Are my regular expressions specified correctly? - Does Xymon support full extended regular expressions? (e.g. the difference between grep and egrep on Sun systems) - Is my understanding of the above accurate with respect to alerts about file system monitoring being generated on the server? Thanks, Matt. Unix System Administrator Computer Science Corporation General Dynamics Land Systems 38500 Mound Rd. Sterling Heights, MI. 48310 This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose.

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Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
by Mark.Whalley＠ingres.com 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hi xymon/hobbit group Over the past couple of days, I have been trying to set up a xymon with some success. My setup so far. I have xymon 4.3.0.0 beta2 installed and running on a Fedora 11 Virtual Machine (VMWare server 1.0.9) on a Windows XP laptop. This xymon server appears to be working correctly with it monitoring itself (bbgen, bbtest, conn, cpu etc) and happily doing connectivity tests to some remote linux/aix servers that I have access to at work. So far, so good. I now want to do some client monitoring. Initially starting with the in-built monitoring tools (cpu, disk etc), then to develop some of my own scripts (korn/born shell) to monitor my Ingres installations. To start off, I have installed xymon client on another laptop which is also running Fedora 11 (on bare metal rather than via a VM). Although the xymon server is happily pinging the client and showing green on the current status, I do not seem to be able to get it to display any of the other data. On checking the client, I am getting "Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout" every 5 minutes within hobbitclient.log. On further checking, I have found that although I can telnet and ping from the server to the client, the client is unable to even ping the server (via IP address) - it just hangs. Server to Client: [xymon at beziers etc]$ ping 192.168.1.69 PING 192.168.1.69 (192.168.1.69) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=5.74 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.41 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.42 ms Client to Server: [xymon at lecroisic client]$ ping 192.168.174.129 PING 192.168.174.129 (192.168.174.129) 56(84) bytes of data. Thinking it might be a firewall issue, I have temporarily disabled all firewall protection on both client and server, and even disabled the firewall on Windows XP (within which the VMawre Server is running the xymon server) - but with no success. This unfortunately is where my networking knowledge fails me (and thus my plea for help!) and a Google search has not given me any clues (that I can understand). Any thoughts? Regards Mark

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xymonton monitors (hardware/samba)
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Hi, unfortunatley the tar files are not accessible .. http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:samba_servers http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:hardware_sensors https://www.makelofine.org/xymon-plugins/hobbit-hardware-v0.1.tar.bz2 https://www.makelofine.org/xymon-plugins/hobbit-samba-v0.1.tar.bz2 .. i've got permission denied ... :-( by the way, is it possible to get a newsletter or something else, if there are new entries or pluggins available ? cheers, Martin

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red is good
by kenneth.falor＠fcer.com 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

greetings, in my company we have firewalls with cellular failover/backup cards built in them. I need to be alerted when we fail over to these cards. I am currently pinging the T1 WAN interface and get alerts when it goes down, but I need to get an acknowledgement that the cell card did in fact fail over and the VPN was re-established. we also want to use this alerting to see if the cards are randomly dialing out. If I ping the cell cards static IP it is down (red) when it is not dialed, so I need alert on green status. I also do not want my main status pages to be red all the time. is there a way to say "red is good, but green is bad"? Other monitoring tools allow for contingencies like 'if the WAN IP is down, then try pinging the WWAN IP, but do not ping WWAN IP until then." can hobbit do this? Kenneth Falor | Network Administrator | First Choice Emergency Room

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[hobbit] firefox 3.5 problem with graph zoom display - ymon 4.2.2-RC1-2008.12.01
by mmoldvan＠csc.com 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

There's a simply CSS fix out there somewhere ... can't remember the URL but basically the fix was to add the following to main/main.css in the Xymon path: #zoomSensitiveZone{ opacity:0; } #zoomBox{ opacity:0.5; } Unix System Administrator Computer Science Corporation General Dynamics Land Systems 38500 Mound Rd. Sterling Heights, MI. 48310 Desk: (586) 825-8294 Oracle IM: moldvanm This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. Craig Cook <Craig.Cook at carquest.com> 11/05/2009 03:12 PM Please respond to hobbit at hswn.dk To "hobbit at hswn.dk" <hobbit at hswn.dk> cc Subject Re: [hobbit] firefox 3.5 problem with graph zoom display - ymon 4.2.2-RC1-2008.12.01 >> Hi >> >> I am running Xymon 4.2.2-RC1-2008.12.01 and have a problem with some, >> but not all browsers. >> >> The problem occurs, then I go to Trends and selects the magnifying glass >> >> ican. The graph displayed for zooming is displayed and immediately >> coveret with a blue square. >> >> This occurs in: firefox 3.5 and Opera 9.64 >> >> This does not occur in: firefox 3.0, Crome 2.0.172.37 and IE 8.0.6001 >> >> >> All hints are appreciated. >> >> Best regards >> >> Harald Villemoes Could this be related? http://bugs.cacti.net/view.php?id=351 Craig This is an e-mail from General Dynamics Land Systems. It is for the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and privileged information. No one else may read, print, store, copy, forward or act in reliance on it or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, please return this message to the sender and delete the message and any attachments from your computer. Your cooperation is appreciated.

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custom scripts
by pjahromi＠checkpoint.com 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

I am a newbie to Hobbit, and this is probably a simple question to answer. Here is what I'm trying to do: I have custom scripts I need to incorporate to Hobbit. I saw the page http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-tips.html#scripts but I still don't completely understand it. If I could get 1 of my scripts set up, then I can probably figure out how to do the rest. I have 2 types of custom scripts: client and server. Here is an example of each. I just need to know exactly how the script would be set up. Note, I had these running on Nagios before: 1. (server) this is the custom script we ran on our old monitoring (nagios): #!/bin/sh WEB_CHECK=`curl http://www.example.com | grep value | wc -l` if [ $WEB_CHECK -eq 1 ] then echo "Result OK" else echo "Failed" exit 2 fi Question: Need to know how to incorporate this on the hobbit server, and where it would show on the GUI? 2. (client) this is custom script that used "NRPE" on nagios: - I have a script that runs on 3 clients, let's call it /usr/local/sbin/script.pl - this script returns an output of a number - on the hobbit server, I want to be get the result of this script for each client, add them together, then alert based on the number. So here is the script I had on the Nagios server: #!/bin/sh # Script to check transactions on ecom-1/2 THRESHOLD=1 SERVER1=`ssh server1 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl` SERVER2=`ssh server2 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl` SERVER3=`ssh server3 /usr/local/nrpe/script.pl` TOTAL=`expr $SERVER1 + $SERVER2 + $SERVER3` if [ $TOTAL -lt $THRESHOLD ] ; then echo "Number ($TOTAL) Failed" exit 2 else echo "Number ($TOTAL) Success" exit 0 fi Question: How would I incorporate that in Hobbit? Thanks! Payam

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