March 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

hobbitping latency reporting with multiple hosts
by nick.nauwelaerts＠thomsonreuters.com 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hello, We are having some discrepancies with the latencies xymon reports in it's conn tests as opposed to what we were seeing in other monitoring programs. What we're seeing is that xymon reports a much higher latency for certain hosts than what we're used to. We are using hobbitping from xymon 4.2.2 on x64, novell suse linux enterprise server 10 sp2. We think we've tracked it down to the following: We are testing with 3 hosts: 194.109.6.92 - www.xs4all.nl 195.130.131.39 - www.telenet.be 212.27.48.10 - www.free.fr These are used as an example, but our real world tests with internal hosts show the same issue. Anyway, when we ping each of these hosts we don't see any issue: % ./hobbitping 194.109.6.92 194.109.6.92 is alive (6 ms) ./hobbitping 195.130.131.39 195.130.131.39 is alive (2 ms) % ./hobbitping 212.27.48.10 212.27.48.10 is alive (16 ms) However, as soon as we start combining hosts we see strange results: ./hobbitping 195.130.131.39 194.109.6.92 195.130.131.39 is alive (22 ms) 194.109.6.92 is alive (6 ms) ./hobbitping 195.130.131.39 194.109.6.92 212.27.48.10 195.130.131.39 is alive (44 ms) 194.109.6.92 is alive (22 ms) 212.27.48.10 is alive (16 ms) Even multiple tests on the same host show this: % ./hobbitping 195.130.131.39 195.130.131.39 195.130.131.39 195.130.131.39 is alive (44 ms) 195.130.131.39 is alive (22 ms) 195.130.131.39 is alive (2 ms) We've found a reference to someone who might have the same issue, but there wasn't any follow up to that: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/09/msg00188.html Is anyone else seeing this issue? thx // nick

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[trunk] hobbitd_alert bug ?
by obeau79＠gmail.com 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi, I'm running trunk (that i downloaded the first week a january) i have identified a bug, i dont know if it has been resolved since. to reproduce the problem : set alerts with different duration and delays here's my configuration: HOST=debian SERVICE=%(ping|http) COLORS=red RECOVERED DURATION>1 MAIL obeau79 at gmail.com REPEAT=24h FORMAT=PLAIN HOST=debian SERVICE=%(ping|http) COLORS=red RECOVERED DURATION>3 MAIL obeau79 at gmail.com REPEAT=1h FORMAT=PLAIN -> i get the first alerts, but not the second one (i suspect that the different REPEAT value is causing the problem) olivier

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apache
by oyvind.bjorge＠telenor.com 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi all! I have just installed a xymon server, but don't get the apache config correct. I have added a directory and an alias in httpd.conf: Alias /xymon/ "/local/xymon/server/www" <Directory "/local/xymon/server/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/local/xymon/cgi-bin/" <directory "/local/xymon/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> At first I got error messages with no access towards http://myserver/xymon, but after adjusting filsystem rights I instead get a directory listing. Index of /xymon [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description [DIR] Parent Directory - [TXT] bb.html 27-Feb-2009 12:29 7.9K [TXT] bb2.html 27-Feb-2009 12:29 2.7K [TXT] bbnk.html 27-Feb-2009 12:29 2.2K [DIR] gifs/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - [DIR] help/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - [DIR] html/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - [TXT] index.html 27-Feb-2009 12:29 7.9K [DIR] menu/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - [DIR] notes/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - [DIR] rep/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - [DIR] snap/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - [DIR] wml/ 26-Jan-2009 16:28 - If I try to select index.html (or bb.html) or typing the filename in the url, I get an 404 error: Not Found The requested URL /xymon/index.html was not found on this server. Any suggestions? Øyvind

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Books about Hobbit
by ataudte＠temenos.com 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hello, I will start a project with Hobbit this year. Are there any Books about this tool or is the Man-Page the only reference? Regards, Andreas Taudte IT Services TEMENOS The Banking Software Company Hahnstrasse 31-35 60528 Frankfurt/Main T: +49 69 66537-224 F: +49 69 66537-113 E: ataudte at temenos.com <mailto:ataudte at temenos.com> www.temenos.com <http://www.temenos.com/> *************************************** ACTIS.BSP IT Services GmbH Hahnstrasse 31-35, 60528 Frankfurt/Main Handelsregister: HRA 46129 Frankfurt Geschäftsführer: Armin Holst *************************************** P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Disclaimer: If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of TEMENOS. We recommend that you check this e-mail and any attachments against viruses. TEMENOS accepts no liability for any damage caused by any malicious code or virus transmitted by this e-mail.

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New Hobbit server install validation
by Rafal.Roginela＠AmeriCashLoans.net 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi All, I have a 4.2 install of Hobbit up and running and I am very happy with it. It runs on an old Gateway workstation with a Celeron and 512MB and performs stellar! CentOs 5 nothing fancy. I was going to move it to a more recent piece of hardware a Dell OptiPlex 320, which at least it is under warranty. I had the Idea of running it as a Xen VM on a Debian host. Is this a bad idea? Clarification of purpose: I'm really not going to run anything else on the Xen except for this one VM and maybe and I mean maybe a test xymon VM directly replicated from the working production VM. This is to provide me with a quick failover ability of copying the image (from backup or if the HD is intact directly from there) to another Xen host and BLAMO xymon is running within minutes. Does this sound OK? Is there a better way to accomplish this? Thank you, Rafal Roginela Network Engineer AmeriCash Loans, LLC This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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bbproxy and hobbitfetch together?
by camorae＠googlemail.com 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi guys, Im thinking if its possible to use hobbitfetch to collect data from bbproxy. Bellow u can see my situation: I have a hobbitserver in one network, where i can monitor all my clients in this network. Now I want to monitor other clients which are in another network (behind a firewall). The problem is, that have to poll all data (all clients) from only one client (it would be the bbproxy). Is it possible? Sorry about my english... if i wasnt clear enought, i can try to explain better. TIA Moraes

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Set of Icons for ! tests
by eric.j.boyd＠gmail.com 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Would it be possible to have an icon such as a green X to indicate that a test like !ftp is not responding? -Eric

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