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[hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Thanks, I'll test out the SMS Format. Can someone give me some pointers on checking the configuration file and also sending out a test alert. I've looked through the man page and tried a few things, but it didn't seem to work. Thanks...James -----Original Message----- From: Rob McBroom [mailto:mailinglist0 at skurfer.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:57 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems On 2009-Apr-14, at 10:00 AM, James Wade wrote: > Also, We received Cell Phones in place of the pagers, and > now when I send messages to the cell phones, the cell phone > doesn't display it properly. It's to much data for the cell phones > they gave us. They are Nokia 6085's. When I get a text it > says 1 of 10..or .. missing text.. I'm guessing I'm going > to have to filter all my Hobbit alerts now. There is a FORMAT option for alerts. In particular, you probably want "FORMAT=SMS". See the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page and the example in the alerts file itself. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hello, I'm having to modify the hobbit-alerts.cfg file to add additional pagers and remove some old ones. However, I want to make sure that everything is working since this is a live system. How can I test that the configuration files is correct. I didn't receive some of the pages. Also, We received Cell Phones in place of the pagers, and now when I send messages to the cell phones, the cell phone doesn't display it properly. It's to much data for the cell phones they gave us. They are Nokia 6085's. When I get a text it says 1 of 10..or .. missing text.. I'm guessing I'm going to have to filter all my Hobbit alerts now. Has anyone had this problem and have a sms script I can use? Thanks..James

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xymon-4.4.0 - RECOVERED variable always 0
by joe＠tmsusa.com 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

I've been working on the snmp trap notification script for xymon servers we are testing, and it's partially working. I've set up the hobbit alerts to send out an email and an snmp trap, for error conditions, and for recovery. So far so good - I am getting the emails, and the snmp traps are being sent out for both the failure and the recovery. However, in troubleshooting the snmp traps, I discovered that the RECOVERED variable, which is to be set to "1" if it's a recovery, is always set to "0", so the trap code is never incremented, thus we see the same trap code for the failure and the recovery, rather than the recovery trap code being incremented 1 over the corresponding failure trap code. Sanity check, anyone? Joe

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Which version? 4.3.0 or 4.4.0?
by Dan.McDonald＠austinenergy.com 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

Looking through SVN, it looks like most of the current work is in 4.4.0. I had installed 4.3.0 Beta 1 on a test system, but there are enough things not working quite right, probably due to my patch were I renamed many things from hobbit to xymon, that I'd like to get a clean install of a new version and try again. Is 4.3.0 now an orphan? Should I switch to 4.4.0 SVN? -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com

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Bertrand ORCIBAL/EXT/TLSE/GPA/CHEM/Corp est absent(e).
by bertrand.orcibal＠gpn.fr 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

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Exclude alerts on weekends
by km＠keithm.us 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Hi all, Just a general Xymon question. What is the best way to exclude certain days in Xymon alerts? For example the statement below will limit alerts to 7AM through 9 PM but how would I exclude Saturday and Sunday from this same alert? PAGE=%.*/page_name SERVICE=conn COLOR=red TIME=*:0700:2100 mail user1 at domain.net DURATION>50 REPEAT=8h RECOVERED

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[hobbit] Exclude alerts on weekends
by GThomas＠fairdinkum.com 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

Believe if you change the * to a W in the TIME argument then you will restrict the alert to Weekdays. So change: TIME=*:0700:2100 to: TIME=W:0700:2100 Believe I saw that in the bb-hosts man page. W for week days or 0-6 for a specific day - useful if you want to IGNORE a particular day, such as Sunday or day and time for scheduled downtime. -----Original Message----- From: Meserole, Keith W. [mailto:km at keithm.us] Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 08:34 PM Eastern Standard Time To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Exclude alerts on weekends Hi all, Just a general Xymon question. What is the best way to exclude certain days in Xymon alerts? For example the statement below will limit alerts to 7AM through 9 PM but how would I exclude Saturday and Sunday from this same alert? PAGE=%.*/page_name SERVICE=conn COLOR=red TIME=*:0700:2100 mail user1 at domain.net DURATION>50 REPEAT=8h RECOVERED

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configuring xymon-4.2.3 using rpm
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

hi, i have rhel 5.2 64 bit server machine and i want to install xymon in /opt/xymon directory.i hv rpms like xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm,xymon-client-4.2.3-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm,xymon-debuginfo-4.2.3-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm.But after installing installation spreads to /var/xymon and /var/lib64 etc.. i want it to go to /opt/xymon for everything...also i want to know how to configure it....can anybody help me... Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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cgilib-0.5 error for configuring xymon
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

hi, i hv rhel 5.2 64 bit machione.when i do make install for cgilib-0.5,i get fallowing - make install cc -I. -Wall -O2 -g -c -o cgitest.o cgitest.c cgitest.c: In function ‘main’: cgitest.c:108: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strcmp’ cgitest.c:116: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘Library’ cgitest.c:129: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘strlen’ cgitest.c:129: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strlen’ make: *** [cgitest.o] Error 1 -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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big brother replacement
by joe＠tmsusa.com 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Hello list, It's that time of year again - we're looking for alternatives to our aging bb infrastructure - although it's been helped by the bbgen extensions, it is showing it's age, and is getting harder to support as time goes by. Of all the potential replacements we've looked at, I don't really like any of them - the commercial bb stuff is uninspiring, and their linux support is lacking. The other solutions tend to be heavyweight j2ee and database apps, or oddities like nagios. What I'd really love to find is something like an up-to-date version of big brother+bbgen, something like hobbit. Unfortunately, last I checked, hobbit still lacked a crucial capability that we depend on, the built-in bb failover mechanism. We have 2 data centers, several hundred miles apart, with bb servers in several lans at both sites. Each bb server has a twin at the other location, and they both monitor the servers in both data centers, but only one of the bb servers does reporting, as determined by the failover state. The bb failover has worked marvelously, and has kept bb firmly in place so far, despite the other advantages of hobbit. So, the $64 question: Is there anything in hobbit, or on the horizon, which will allow hobbit to serve as a drop-in replacement for bb, including the failover capability? Thanks for your words of wisdom. Joe

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