December 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Problems with Windows Monitoring in Hobbit
by andreas.sin＠itc.alstom.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hello I am a system engineer working in a Windows based environment. Beside NetIQ AppManager, we are monitoring a part of our servers with Hobbit. The central Hobbit server is a Linux RedHat 4.0 machine. The Problem I'm facing is the following: All of our monitored Windows servers are configured in the "central" mode in the local stored config file (BBWin.cfg) as you can see.  <setting name="mode" value="central" /> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" /> Normaly in the Web interface they are reporting like this: But when I change from "central" to "local", for enabling for example process monitoring, which by the way works fine, the columns files, ports and timediff are changing their color to purple, because hobbit obviously is no longer able to get/update those data for those columns. I've tried many things to get those columns to "green" or at least to "clear" state, but now I resign. So what I have to do to get those columns working as they do, when the central mode is configured? The BBWin Agent version we are using is 0.11.0.83 Could please someone help? cheers Andreas Kind regards / Freundliche Grüsse Andreas Sin, System Engineer ALSTOM (Switzerland) Ltd. (ITSSC) IT Shared Service Centre _____________________________________________ Group Data Centre Baden Brown Boveri Strasse 7 5401 Baden Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)56 205 12 21 Mobile: +41 (0)79 619 35 36 e-Mail : andreas.sin at itc.alstom.com Mit Alstom das Klima schützen. Ist es wirklich notwendig diese Email zu drucken? With Alstom, preserve the environment. Is printing this email really necessary ? :._______________ VERTRAULICHKEIT: Dieses e-mail und alle angehängten Dateien sind vertraulich und privilegiert. Sollten Sie nicht als namentlicher Empfänger aufgeführt sein, informieren Sie unverzüglich den Absender und machen Sie den Inhalt nicht für Dritte zugänglich, noch darf dieser gedruckt oder für andere Zwecke verwendet, kopiert oder auf irgend einem Medium gespeichert werden. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium.

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FW: [hobbit] TS - Trying to create an escalation in hobbit-alerts.cfg
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

I sent this out 12/4/2009 and got no responses. Can anyone guide me in the correct direction? I also have another request: If I have 10 windows servers that reboot every night between 3-3:30am and I don't want to notify, and wake up, during this timeframe, would I require multiple hobbit-alerts.cfg entries for that server? Of the following lines, which will function correctly? Can I have multiple TIME= options on the HOST= line? Also, does the server understand 0000 = midnight? Or 2400? HOST=def.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED TIME=*:0000:0300 TIME=*:0330:2359 MAIL .... OR - Would this also be acceptable? HOST=def.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED MAIL tom at def.com TIME=*:0000:0300 TIME=*:0330:2359 OR - Would this also be acceptable? HOST=def.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED MAIL tom at def.com TIME=*:0000:0300 MAIL tom at def.com TIME=*:0330:2359 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-- From: d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com [mailto:d.tom.schmitt at L-3com.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:32 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] TS - Trying to create an escalation in hobbit-alerts.cfg It the best way to create an escalation to do it: HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED # EVERYDAY Notify immediately and every 10 minutes MAIL billybob at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=10m HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn RECOVERED TIME=1-5:0000-2359 DURATION>59m # WEEKDAY Notify weekdays after 1 hour and every hour MAIL jimmyjames at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=60m HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn TIME=0,6 RECOVERED DURATION>179m # WEEKEND Notify after 3 hours MAIL hank at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=7d HOST=abc.com SERVICE=conn TIME=0,6 RECOVERED DURATION>479m # WEEKEND Notify after 8 hours MAIL jullie at abc.com COLOR=red REPEAT=7d I don't believe that the DURATION= can be used on the MAIL line only on the HOST= line per the help on the web page. Will this work as stated? If you don't put SERVICE= on the line will it function for all services? Or do you need something line '=*'? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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msgs service
by gatis.anee＠gmail.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi, Is it possible to create a seperate msgs columns for a different log files? I mean in an easy way, without custom ext scripts. For instance under default "msgs" column goes all the system logs, but under "msgs_app" goes some application logs.

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la.rrd and users.rrd for one client no longer updated
by andreas.kunberger＠itv-denkendorf.de 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hello, since yesterday for one of my servers la.rrd and users.rrd are no lonfer updated. All other graphs and all culumns are current ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog maise.itv.cpu"|head shows: maise.itv|cpu|green||1261037651|1261042793|1261044593|0|0|192.168.52.33|-1|||Y green Thu Dec 17 10:39:47 CET 2009 , 1 users, 568 procs, load=1.53 System clock is 0 seconds off top - 10:39:48 up 1 day, 17:23, 1 user, load average: 0.73, 1.51, 1.60 Tasks: 565 total, 2 running, 563 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 12.0%us, 6.0%sy, 0.4%ni, 71.8%id, 7.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2061484k total, 2037800k used, 23684k free, 100492k buffers Swap: 1558256k total, 7660k used, 1550596k free, 406336k cached Any help? Many Friendly Greetings Andreas -- Netzwerk Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung Denkendorf

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Xymon / Nagios interactivity ?
by fredbo＠club-internet.fr 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi all, I work in an very heterogeneous server farm. We are using a Nagios server to monitor a part of these servers, It is not possible to migrate Nagios to Xymon for the moment. I would like to know if someone have experienced interaction of xymon with nagios , is it possible to integrate some Nagios tests results in Xymon interface ? Regards, Fred.

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question about installing xymon
by kevin＠shadowsoft.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

I have a question about installing xymon. After installing the xymon, I have been unable to get the monitoring program up and running via the web browser in linux. We are running Centos 5.3. I copied the info from hobbit-apache.conf into the httpd.conf file but it still doesn't work. Any suggestions? Kevin

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[hobbit] Backup exec
by mmoldvan＠csc.com 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

If you're using Sendmail, you can setup an alias to receive those messages and pipe them to a shell script. Based on your parsing of the mail message in that shell script, you can send a subsequent status color to your Xymon server. Sounds relatively easy ... Matt Moldvan. 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. Re: [hobbit] Backup exec Josh Luthman to: hobbit 11/19/2009 09:25 AM Please respond to hobbit I didn't get a list, just empty search results. On 11/19/09, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Nikesh Maharaj <NMaharaj at tcta.co.za> wrote: > >> Good afternoon all, >> >> >> >> I am currently running BackupExec v12.5 . is there any way I can >> amalgamate >> the ?successful emails? into Xymon? >> >> >> > > > http://www.deadcat.net/search.php?menuosfamily=0&menulicense=0&menusection=… > > > >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is >> believed to be clean. >> > > > > -- > 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? > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --- Albert Einstein To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Installin xymon on Solaris10
by canghel＠cjh.org 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hello, I installed xymon on linux--no problems. Now I was asked to install it on Solaris 10, no so easy.. I've run one time the "./configure.server" in the end there was a message about "not finding ar" so added the /usr/ccs/bin to the $PATH I deleted the MAKEFILE and run again the "/configure.server" I am getting this error message. "# MAKE=make ./configure.server Configuration script for Xymon This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Xymon Checking your make-utility GNU make is required to build Xymon. If it is available as "gmake", run configure as: 'MAKE=gmake ./configure.server' " If I run the "make" again I am getting " make: Fatal error: No arguments to build" Any suggestions? Thanks Camelia

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Clearing "errors in" on cisco 3500XL
by brian.daly＠criticalpath.net 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Hi Guys, I am not sure if this is a devmon or hobbit question so I am mailing both parties. I am currently monitoring a Cisco 3500XL which is showing alot of "erros in" under the if_err section. When I clear the counters of the switch, everything returns to zero except "errors in" which still remains at the same level it was before clearing the counters. Does anybody know how to clear these values? Brian

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[hobbit] Trying to make graphs with bb-roracle.ksh 2.20
by fredbo＠club-internet.fr 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Many thanks Robert, It works ! Just a detail at the end of the script : #################### 29 done 30 ;; # add two semi-colon here 31 32 *) exit 0 33 ;; 34 35 esac 36 exit 0 37 #end of extra-rrd.sh #################### Best regards. Fred. Here's what I did: In hobbitgraph.cfg add these two stanzas: [oradb] FNPATTERN oradb(.*).rrd TITLE Oracle Tablespace Utilitzation YAXIS % Full DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:pct:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -u 100 -l 0 GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n [oradb1] FNPATTERN oradb(.*).rrd TITLE Oracle Tablespace Utilitzation YAXIS Used(MB) DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:used:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -l 0 GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST:\: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX:\: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN:\: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE:\: %5.1lf (avg)\n In hobbitserver.cfg: - Add oradb (or whatever you bb-roracle reports as) to the TEST2RRD line - Add oradb and oradb1 to the GRAPHS line In hobbitlaunch.cfg: - Add "--extra-script=/home/hobbit/server/ext/extra_rrd.sh --extra-tests=oradb" to the CMD line in [rrdstatus] stanza - Add "--extra-script=/home/hobbit/server/ext/extra_rrd.sh --extra-tests=oradb" to the CMD line in [rrdata] stanza Create $BBHOME/server/ext/extra_rrd.sh as: #!/bin/bash # Input parameters: Hostname, testname (column), and messagefile HOSTNAME="$1" TESTNAME="$2" FNAME="$3" case $TESTNAME in oradb) # oradb grep " Tablespace " $FNAME | grep -v "Tablespace check disabled" | while read LINE do TSNAME=`echo $LINE | awk '{print $4}'` TSSIZE=`echo $LINE | awk '{print $6}' | cut -f1 -d"M"` #TSPCTUSED=`echo $LINE | awk '{print $9}'|cut -f1 -d"%"|cut -f2 -d">"` TSPCTUSED=`echo $LINE | awk '$2 ~ /\&green/ {print $9}; $2 ~ /\&yellow/ {print $10}; $2 ~/\&red/ {print $10}' |cut -f1 -d"%"|cut -f2 -d">"` TSUSED=`echo $TSSIZE $TSPCTUSED | awk '{print $1*$2/100}'` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:pct:GAUGE:1200:0:100" #heartbeat = 1200 (20 minutes) since bb-roracle runs 10 minutes -- Setting lower could cause gaps in graphs echo "DS:used:GAUGE:1200:0:U" #heartbeat = 1200 (20 minutes) since bb-roracle runs 10 minutes -- Setting lower could cause gaps in graphs # The filename echo "oradb,${TSNAME}.rrd" echo "$TSPCTUSED:$TSUSED" #echo "$TSNAME pctused=$TSPCTUSED-- used=$TSUSED--" >> /tmp/oradb.rrd.out #debug/testing statement done *) exit 0 ;; esac exit 0 #end of extra-rrd.sh --------------- Robert Herron -- the "R.Herron" in bb-roracle.sh revision history.

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