April 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

[hobbit] acknowledge past disruptions
by wouter＠schoot.org 02 May '09

02 May '09

Wouter Schoot wrote: > However, one thing I've not found and answer for yet, is how to handle > downtime which is in the past. The ISP where my monitoring box is > located suffered a DDoS quite recently, which rendered the monitoring > quite useless. I'm now looking for a way to tell hobbit "all the > downtime and alerts between <timestamp> and <timestamp> can be safely > ignored and should not be taken into account when generating an > availability report". Is this possible? Anyone on this perhaps? It would increase the usefulness of the reports. Thanks. Wouter

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DNS lookup failed
by bb＠buglecreek.com 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

I have several external servers I test with lines like this in bb-hosts: 0.0.0.0 mail.server.xxx.com # noconn smtp imaps These are load balanced so the ip changes. I randomly get a red indication on the status page stating: DNS lookup failed So, in the hobbitlaunch.cfg I added --no-ares to the bbtest-net section. This seemed to fix the issue, but was curious if there was a better way. After looking at the warnings in the man page for bbtest-net I'm a little concerned. It states "You should only use this as a last resort . . ." Is there a better way to resolve this? Xymon is 4.2.3 on a RH5.3 server.

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4.3.0.0-Beta 2 (BUG)
by MFisher＠hra.com 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

There seems to be a bug in the 4.3 Beta 2 release of xymon When clicking on the trends column, the NEW features at the top allow for showing trends during a time interval (2 days, 12 days, etc..) When clicking on the link, In my case (2 Days), the result is a Blank White page with (No Such Host) Upon researching, the url is http://XYMONSERVER/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=xymonserver&SERVICE=trends&… The url SHOULD be http://XYMONSERVER/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=xymonserver.contoso.local&S… The difference is in the HOST= attribute....The BUG is that it does NOT use the FQDN as stated in bb-hosts but that of the NETBIOS name... I dont have a host for XYMONSERVER but i DO have a host for XYMONSERVER.CONTOSO.LOCAL Henrick...is this truly a bug or is it just me.... THANKS!

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Different timeouts per HTTP check
by wouter＠schoot.org 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi, I'm using a few HTTP checks to see how fast (and if) a website responds. However, some are known to be slower than others and I want therefor some sites not to trigger an alert or at least not if it doesn't respond in 10 seconds, but for instance 20 seconds. How can I achieve this for 1 check, not globally for all HTTP checks? Best regards, Wouter

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hobbitclient not running on hobbit server
by vadud3＠gmail.com 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi In ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg file I have this [hobbitclient] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD /home/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m But I do not see hobbit client running. The log is file hobbitclient.log is zero bytes How do I debug this? The hobbit server does not show any disk/cpu data of its own system, since the client is not running -- 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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files, ports, procs saying not defined
by joseph.kezar＠gmail.com 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

in $XYMONHOME/server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg on the xymon server, I've added some tests that dont seem to be reflecting in the URL for xymon. Here is a snippet of the file: Just above the default section I've added a port test for port 389. HOST=ldap.doc.state.vt.us PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]389)$" state=LISTEN TEXT=ldap DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 But I still get the white non-smiley face. When I click on the icon I get to the next screen which says "No port checks defined" and below that is the current result of a netstat. How can I get a green smiley for my port! And this is just a test, I realize there is a specific test for ldap connectivity. Thanks! Joseph Kezar No port checks defined"

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BB-Hosts DOWNTIME
by MFisher＠hra.com 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi all! I am still to this day having issues getting the DOWNTIME parameters to work. I have tried everything under the sun but ultimetely i have fallen back to what is written in the BB-Hosts Man page.. DOWNTIME=*:0000:0200,*:0230:2359 This basically says that the host is DOWN between 2AM and 2:30AM......Correct? Kind of an @ssbackwards way of looking at it but from what i can gather, you just specify the time the server should be UP...right? Its not working...i still get alerts and the page still stays red..not blue as expected... I have also tried DOWNTIME=*:0200:0230 but as expected...that fails as well.. Anybody have any insight into this...im sure im missing something stupid... THANKS!

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alert if up
by john＠sackheads.org 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I thought there was a way to do this.... but in some cases, i'd really like an alert to fire if certain IP addresses _become_ pingable. Is this possible in bb-hosts or only with some alert scripting?

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Bug found in counting number of CPUs
by Thinh_Nguyen2＠Cable.Comcast.com 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

XYMON version 4.2.3 The error: uname reports 8 installed processors, but prtdiag shows only 4 present. Some processors seem to be offline or problematic !!! For Solaris server with more than 4 processors running. bb-cpu2.sh can't count more than 4 processors with comma delimiter. Look at the prtdiag -v from 4 processors machine vs. 8 processors machine below ========================= CPUs =============================================== Run E$ CPU CPU Brd CPU MHz MB Impl. Mask --- ----- ---- ---- ------- ---- A 0 1050 8.0 US-III+ 11.0 A 2 1050 8.0 US-III+ 11.0 B 1 1050 8.0 US-III+ 11.0 B 3 1050 8.0 US-III+ 11.0 ========================= CPUs =============================================== Run E$ CPU CPU Brd CPU MHz MB Impl. Mask --- ----- ---- ---- ------- ---- A 0, 16 1350 16.0 US-IV 3.1 B 1, 17 1350 16.0 US-IV 3.1 A 2, 18 1350 16.0 US-IV 3.1 B 3, 19 1350 16.0 US-IV 3.1

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once more linecount
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi ! Since i know that the linecount-function in client-launch.cfg counts the pattern even in the hole logfile, i wonder what people do in the situation of logrotate ... what does it means for the rrd-file or the graph, going down to zero and starts again to count ? On the other hand i want to count the pattern UID to count all jobs are done ... my client-launch.cfg [k5cron01] linecount:/var/log/debug Jobs UID On the client-side i see the right counting [k5cron01] /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp # grep Jobs msg.k5cron01.txt Jobs: 2322 But the graph gots no value .. and in the rrd-file stands follows .. rrdtool dump lines.\,var\,log\,debug#Jobs.rrd <rrd> <version> 0003 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1240349502 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> count </name> <type> DERIVE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> 2322 </last_ds> <value> 3.3774834437e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds>  <rra> <cf> AVERAGE </cf> <pdp_per_row> 1 </pdp_per_row>  <params> <xff> 5.0000000000e-01 </xff> </params> <cdp_prep> <ds> <primary_value> 3.2008830022e-02 </primary_value> <secondary_value> 0.0000000000e+00 </secondary_value> <value> NaN </value> <unknown_datapoints> 0 </unknown_datapoints> </ds> </cdp_prep> <database>  <row><v> NaN </v></row>  <row><v> NaN </v></row>  <row><v> NaN </v></row> What's going wrong by me ? thanks & cheers Martin

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