March 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Ack events sent to multiple BBDISP (issue with bback.cgi and cookies)
by nico＠crysto.org 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

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Installing Hobit Client in HPUX
by Davis.Jacob＠McKesson.com 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, A quick introduction, I am Davis Jacob a member of the System Engineering team. I am getting a problem when trying to install the client in HPUX machine. When I untar the client version, I get this message; tar -xvf hobbit_hpux.tar x ./etc/rc.config.d/hobbit-client, 880 bytes, 2 tape blocks x ./sbin/init.d/hobbit-client, 3497 bytes, 7 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bb, 82172 bytes, 161 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bbcmd, 69884 bytes, 137 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bbhostgrep, 86268 bytes, 169 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bbhostshow, 69884 bytes, 137 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-aix.sh, 1452 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-darwin.sh, 1164 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-freebsd.sh, 1462 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-hp-ux.sh, 1565 bytes, 4 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh, 1363 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-netbsd.sh, 1399 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-openbsd.sh, 1396 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-osf1.sh, 1346 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-sunos.sh, 1652 bytes, 4 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh, 1387 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch, 78076 bytes, 153 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hpux-meminfo, 20732 bytes, 41 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg, 349 bytes, 1 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg, 1783 bytes, 4 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/runclient.sh, 2962 bytes, 6 tape blocks x ./usr/local/var/run/hobbitclient-runtime.cfg, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks But I don't see any installable in it. The HPUX version running is B.11.11 Can you please help me with this. Thanks in advance, Davis

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Xymonton look
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hey, I'm thinking of updating the theme for Xymonton. If you would, check out http://www.trantor.org/xymonton and let me know what you think. I tried a few of themes this weekend and I liked this one best. Note, I also ported the "Unofficial Users Guide" from TJ's site under the support tab. I wouldn't recommend making any updates to this site as they won't be reflected in the production xymonton pages. =G=

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How do I prevent red/purple alert storm from Xymon server ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

New entry added. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#… Please contribute if you have better idea on "how to fix" section. T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGT…

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Problem with "TITLE exec:" in hobbitgraph.cfg
by hobbit＠general-failure.com 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

I'm having trouble getting "TITLE exec:" working (currently running xymon 4.2.3 on debian lenny). The hobbitgraph.cfg snippet: [mrtg] .. TITLE exec:/usr/local/hobbit/bin/lun-title.sh .. .. the file /usr/local/hobbit/bin/lun-title.sh: -rwxr-xr-x 1 hobbit hobbit 395 2009-03-30 11:46 lun-title.sh ------------<cut>------------ #!/bin/sh HOSTNAME="$1"; shift GTYPE="$1"; shift LEGEND="$1"; shift RRD="$1"; shift echo "RRD=$RRD, rest is $*" >>/tmp/title.log MRTGSET="`echo $RRD | sed -e's/\.rrd$//'`" echo "MRTGSET=$MRTGSET" >>/tmp/title.log # MRTGTITLE=`grep -i "Title\[$MRTGSET\]:" /etc/lun-title.cfg | cut -d: -f2-` MRTGTITLE="IOPS per lun" echo "TITLE=$MRTGTITLE" >>/tmp/title.log echo "$MRTGTITLE $LEGEND" exit 0 ------------<cut>------------ So the title should (at the moment) always be "IOPS per lun" but I've got the feeling that the script isn't even executed since it isn't logging to the /tmp/title.log file. I can't find anything wrong in /var/log/xymon/* files. The graph itself works fine but the title is random 'crap' with every refresh (see attached example). Any help would be appreciated

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Access to Xymon data via library functions?
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

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[hobbit] local client 4.2.0 and logs/files report
by geraud.guibert＠free.fr 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

hello everyone, i'm just installing the hobbit version 4.2.0 from source (--local type only) on servers, to replace the old packages that differ from one plaftorm to another at least, most of the default services work nicely, except for the <msgs>+<logs>+<files> :-( am i wrong or it's normal when instaling only the local client part ? does the client never fetch the client-local.cfg on the server, or is there a way to force it ? at last, i've found an undoubtly known and short work-around (logfetch related instead of an additional 'checklog' plugin), but i would prefer the clean and offcicial method ;-) thx in advance Geraud Guibert

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HA-Hobbit with Linux HA 2
by Harald.Husemann＠materna.de 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi folks, as written to the list a few days ago, we're running Hobbit on a Linux HA-2 cluster with DRBD. Runs very nice, and the setup is not very complicated, so as promised, here are some notes if you like to make your Hobbit high available: (This is more or less a summary of our installation, and not tested but written from memory - maybe someone can test it and write a real step-by-step guide) 1. Install Linux-HA on both nodes 2. Build a DRBD resource for the Hobbit files, as described in http://www.drbd.org/docs/about/ 3. Setup a Hobbit group 4. Setup a failover IP resource in the Hobbit group, with a DNS entry if you have DNS 5. Install apache, and setup an apache failover resource in the Hobbit group for it 6. Setup a colocation constraint, and bind the Hobbit group to the DRBD resource 7. Setup an order constraint, to have DRBD started before Hobbit starts 8. Setup a Hobbit user as usual, and link its home directory to the DRBD resource. This way, all Hobbit config files, datafiles, etc. are on DRBD , and you don't have to fiddle around with syncing the configs etc. 9. Configure Hobbit sources as usual, with some notes: - Use the failover IP as Hobbit's server IP - Everywhere you would enter the Hobbitserver's name, enter the name of the failover IP (e.g., for the web-based stuff) 10. Try to start Hobbit: It should run as normal. 11. Stop it, switch everything to the other node, and try to start Hobbit again. If everything's okay, stop it, and you're ready for the final step: 12. Copy the attached script "hobbit" to /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/ ON BOTH NODES 13. Setup a Hobbit resource (e.g. by using the hb_gui and selecting "hobbit", which should be visible after a restart of the GUI). 14. Start the Hobbit resource That's it, now, your Hobbit should be redundant and monitored by the OCF system. Some final notes: - Be sure to use the failover IP as BBDISPLAY on all your clients - NEVER start/stop/restart Hobbit with hobbit.sh, since you could end up with two running Hobbit instances (the cluster will see that hobbitd is down, and start it itself). reload is (obviously) okay, since it will not restart the process. - If you like to monitor your Hobbit nodes themselves, install a second Hobbit (client) instance under a different user (e.g. hobbitmon), which is not under cluster control. Without this, only the active node will be monitored, since the server (and the client) runs only on this node. HTH, hh -- Harald Husemann Netzwerk- und Systemadministrator Operation Management Center (OMC) MATERNA GmbH Information & Communications Westfalendamm 98 44141 Dortmund Geschäftsführer: Dr. Winfried Materna, Helmut an de Meulen, Ralph Hartwig Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 5839 Tel: +49 231 9505 222 Fax: +49 231 9505 100 www.annyway.com <http://www.annyway.com/> www.materna.com <http://www.materna.com/>

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[hobbit] xymon ready to replace bb?
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

On Thursday 26 March 2009 15:40:16 Galen Johnson wrote: > While I don't want to minimize TJ's work, I don't believe people realize > that Xymonton, the Xymon repository for custom tests, is actually built on > top of Dokuwiki. This is exactly the type of information the tutorials page > was meant to capture. It might be helpful if we had a one stop shop for > all things Xymon instead of going one place for scripts and another for > docs. Hmm, well, Sourceforge now has hosted applications for projects, including mediawiki wiki's. If something is to be a one-stop-shop, I think sourceforge is currently in a better position to do this. However, I think a hobbitmon project admin is required to enable the mediawiki application. Other available hosted applications include: Gallery LimeSurvey phpBB Wordpress (and many more) I've enabled mediawiki for Devmon, but haven't gotten around to putting any content there yet: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/devmon/ Regards, Buchan

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NTP tests taking forever
by stewartl42＠gmail.com 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

We run a distributed hohbbit across a number of sites. This weekend, we had some bad weather that knocked out power. As a result, my NTP tests took longer than normal, causing some warnings with bbtest. Anyone run into this before? How did you fix it. Error output: WARNING: Runtime 325 longer than time limit (300) TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 1238412913.819821 - Service definitions loaded 1238412913.821310 0.001489 Tests loaded, hostname lookups done 1238412914.240222 0.418912 Test engine setup completed 1238412915.304005 1.063783 TCP tests completed 1238412926.001476 10.697471 PING test completed (1185 hosts) 1238412968.216928 42.215452 PING test results sent 1238412968.223719 0.006791 Test result collection completed 1238412968.223804 0.000085 LDAP test engine setup completed 1238412968.223806 0.000002 LDAP tests executed 1238412968.223807 0.000001 LDAP tests result collection completed 1238412968.223808 0.000001 DNS tests executed 1238412968.383053 0.159245 NTP tests executed 1238413238.693077 270.310024 Test results transmitted 1238413238.739635 0.046558 bbtest-net completed 1238413238.761778 0.022143 TIME TOTAL 324.941957 -- Stewart -- If you see yourself in others, then whom can you harm?

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