December 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

downtime
by doctor＠makelofine.org 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Hi all, I'm monitoring a server that is running xymon client. This host is powered down every night at 11pm, and is powered up every morning at 9am. So, in bb-hosts file on xymon server, I added the following to this host description : toto 1.2.3.4 # test test1 test2 DOWNTIME=*:2300:0900:dodo But when the host goes down, I still have some red and purple test from it. I'd like to simply ignore its existence during the scheduled downtime. I tried to reverse my DOWNTIME definition as it : DOWNTIME=*:0900:2300:dodo But nothing changes. Tks for any help

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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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Question/Issue
by Chris.Mcmahon＠fallonclinic.org 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, I have 3 different server running xymon 4.3b, all are running great. There is one that is having issues graphing the only thing it will graph is the "conn" everything else just gets a "nan" error. This all started after we switched to a central config method. Thanks, ______________________________________________ Chris McMahon Systems Engineer III [cid:image001.jpg at 01CA7291.3F8ED4B0] 630 Plantation St. Worcester MA 01605 Tel: 774.261.1218 Fax: 774-261-1026 Email: chris.mcmahon at fallonclinic.org<mailto:george.mcmahon at fallonclinic.org> website: www.fallonclinic.org<http://www.fallonclinic.org/>

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[hobbit] Compile Issue with latest SVN version of 4.3.0
by iain＠shihad.org 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 19:45 +0100, Malcolm Hunter wrote: > > > > Any Ideas? > > > > > > It's a typo - plusminuts should be plusminus. > > > > Actually the code looks a bit buggy because if the result of the first > > "if": > > > > if (strstr(msgcopy, "ntpdate") != NULL) { > > > > is true then char *offset won't be declared and could lead to a runtime > > error in the second "if" statement: > > > > if (offsetval) { > > Correction: it still doesn't compile. I suspect "offset" on line 131 should be "offsetval". Thanks Malcolm. That compiles now :) Cheers Iain > > Malcolm >

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[hobbit] BBWin Central vs Local Configuration
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.co.uk 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

> Microsoft's Licensing page for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), > the new SMS, is > http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us/pricing-li…. Your pricing may differ if you have an > Enterprise Agreement and if you choose to place Software Assurance on the > purchase or not. We have a single server with sql server bundled. We use the > middle tier management license. It services about 100 servers and 900 desktops. So a bit expensive unless you have other uses for SMS other than distributing BBWin config files. :) 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 Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3.5 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser

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[hobbit] Hobbit: tests suddenly went purple and they did not reappear
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Is the client software actually running on the client? Is the client software hung? A hung client process will also cause this condition. ......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: Francesco.Cicolani at atac.roma.it [mailto:Francesco.Cicolani at atac.roma.it] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:42 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit: tests suddenly went purple and they did not reappear Hi Iain, still no luck here: - telnet test on port 1984 looks good. - the problemativc host does not appear in the ghostlist (and the client name hasn't changed). Thank you for your answer. fra To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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getting bb failed - write error
by vadud3＠gmail.com 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

2009-12-01 02:38:02 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout 2009-12-01 02:43:01 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout 2009-12-01 02:48:14 Write error while sending message to bbd at 192.47.0.53:1984 2009-12-01 02:48:14 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - write error 2009-12-01 02:53:01 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout 2009-12-01 02:58:02 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout I did not find any fix in the mailing list archive. What is causing this? my hobbit client is 4.2.0 -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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