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Xymon version 4.2.2 RC1 available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

I've just made the release-candidate of version 4.2.2 available for download on Sourceforge. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=14… This is how I would expect the interim 4.2.2 release to be. It includes the following changes from 4.2.0: *) Due to the Hobbit project being renamed to Xymon (for legal reasons), the documentation has been updated to refer to this as the name of the project. *) All patches from the "all-in-one" patch have been applied *) Patches from Debian and Mandriva source archives and elsewhere have been merged, fixing: - The "Critical Systems" configuration report would crash when hosts were in NKview.cfg, but no NK tags were in bb-hosts (from Mandriva) - SSL certificates with 4-digit expiration years would crash the network tester (from Debian) - Newer OpenLDAP versions have a different API, so the LDAP test code would not build correctly (from Debian) - Old Big Brother clients report disk output with no header line (from Debian) - The bb-hosts syntax for HTTP testing via a proxy could not support https target-URL's (from Debian) - Certain SuSE versions would not be identified by the Linux client as such (only affected OS name displayed in the "info" status). *) Support for sending custom graph data in a "trends" data message (from http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/01/msg00236.html) *) Split-NCV and TRACKMAX support for custom graphs (from http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2007/03/msg00368.htm) *) Support for the "BBWin" client http://bbwin.sf.net/ in centralized (server-side) configuration mode. Based on BBWin v. 0.12. *) Support for the "hobbit-perl-client" add-on http://hobbit-perl-client.sf.net/ . Based on perl-http-client v1.15 *) Support for the "Devmon" SNMP data collector http://devmon.sf.net/ based on Devmon 0.3.0. A last-minute update for Devmon was missed in the RC1 source file, so Devmon users should grab the latest hobbitd/rrd/do_devmon.c source from http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/branches/4.2.2/hobbit… and copy to hobbitd/rrd/do_devmon.c . This will be included in the final 4.2.2 release. Please test this if you can, and report problems to the mailing list. Since all of this code has been in use for quite some time, I would not expect a lot of problems. So the target date for the 4.2.2 release is Dec. 10. Regards, Henrik

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PROC test question
by marco.pizzoli＠gmail.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hi all, I am a hobbit newby. I have a question about the PROC test: is there a way to define a test about the presence of a particular proc executed by a particular user? I'm in a situation where I have some daemons that could be started by a lot of (machine)users and so I would like to check the user the proc run as. Thanks in advance Marco

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[hobbit] hobbit client on esx server?
by jdustin＠usm.maine.edu 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

>>> On 1/15/2008 at 4:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:02:02PM -0500, Jason Chambers wrote: >> Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me. > > Possible, but as I understand from our ESX guys you cannot install any > kind of 3rd-party software on the ESX host without voiding your support > agreement. > > In fact, ESX servers is one of the targets for my SNMP-based monitoring > tool right now. > This is an interesting "warning"... If I am ever on the phone to VMWare Support, I will make sure to "forget" the Hobbit client is running! I am currently running the Hobbit client on 7 ESX 3.01 boxes, without any problems. I compiled the client on another server, then merely unzipped it on ESX, and adjusted the startup script. I also made a custom test that runs esxtop and parses the output to determine the "real" CPU load. -- -- Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME 207-780-4152

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URLplus
by tlp＠mach.com 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Can this new extension do the post like the builtin http test can do ? Regards, Thomas

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[hobbit] RE: Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

The problem with no SMS notification was a slow email server. So, SMS works fine. However, the message is way to short. For example, if it is alerting on a disk threshold, then all I get on the SMS is the server name, and the test name that is failing. I don't actually get the partition (filesystem) that exceeded the threshold. If I use PLAIN or just leave it at default, I get to much information and it overruns the poor little cell phone. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks...james -----Original Message----- From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:16 PM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] RE: Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems So, I tried this in hobbit-alerts.cfg MAIL os-primary-pager FORMAT=sms REPEAT=15 COLOR=RED DURATION>5m DURATION<35 RECOVERED The notifications log said it was sent to the phone. (os-primary-pager is in the mail aliases file) However, the phone never received the messages. Prior to putting in the FORMAT=sms, it sent pages fine. Thanks...James

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[hobbit] custom script - monitoring
by steve.anderson＠bipsolutions.com 31 May '09

31 May '09

Take a look on the tip and tricks help page. For the 'How can I create a custom test script?' option. It covers it in reasonable detail. You /need/ to have the client name in your bb-hosts file, for the reports to show up. The [myscript] bit in ~hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg needs to be unique on the client, or only one of them will work. As long as it's running, and ties up with one of the clients in bb-hosts, it should show up on the monitor (restart client and server, to make sure they get picked up.) Steve Anderson -----Original Message----- From: Lennart Andersen [mailto:lka0871 at rogers.com] Sent: 31 May 2009 19:17 To: xymon Subject: [hobbit] custom script - monitoring Hi All, Could someone please discribe the correct way to add a custom script and be able to see this on the monitoring pages........please! I am getting bald trying to get this to apear..:-) -- Lennart Andersen St Thomas, Ontario http://gdane.dlinkddns.com lka0871 at rogers dot com ---------------------------- - Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, The Barsoom Project To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email BiP Solutions Limited is a company registered in Scotland with Company Number SC086146 and VAT number 383030966 and having its registered office at Park House, 300 Glasgow Road, Shawfield, Glasgow, G73 1SQ. **************************************************************************** This e-mail (and any attachment) is intended only for the attention of the addressee(s). Its unauthorised use, disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all copies and inform the sender by return e-mail. This e-mail (whether you are the sender or the recipient) may be monitored, recorded and retained by BiP Solutions Ltd. E-mail monitoring/ blocking software may be used, and e-mail content may be read at any time.You have a responsibility to ensure laws are not broken when composing or forwarding e-mails and their contents. ****************************************************************************

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custom script - monitoring
by lka0871＠rogers.com 31 May '09

31 May '09

Hi All, Could someone please discribe the correct way to add a custom script and be able to see this on the monitoring pages........please! I am getting bald trying to get this to apear..:-) -- Lennart Andersen St Thomas, Ontario http://gdane.dlinkddns.com lka0871 at rogers dot com ---------------------------- - Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, The Barsoom Project

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xymon 4.2.3 & bb-hosts issue
by jkokino＠gmail.com 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hello! I have one issue, it could be that is rather very simple, but I am not sure where to look, so I would appreciate a hint, where to start to look for. Someone may eventually experienced this, which is very likely :) I have Xymon 4.2.3 on Fedore 10. Fedora 10 is a guest OS in VMWare virtual machine. It worked all fine. Now I moved the VMWare Fedore 10 guest image to a different computer, in a different subnet. Now all I get read from the bb-hosts file are the page labels defined over there. I get no devices, nor I get the default SKXYMON device on the homepage. I changed the address of the guest os, on a network level (ping, trace and etc) - everything is working, I changed the IP of SKXYMON entry in bb-hosts, still it looks to me that the hobbit process is not fetching the data that are sent to this process. Or it fetches, but bb-hosts file for some reason is not read properly? Do I have to configure xymon again, then recompile it? (I saved bb-hosts file in my ~ folder). Thanks /JD

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Xymon 4.2.3 rrd-data.log shows xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hello all, Last friday may 22 at 8:20 we finished our upgrade from our NetApp-filers (version 7.2.3 to 7.3.1.1). These filers were (and are) monitored by Xymon in combination with the perl-netapp-client. Combined a great combo! However, since the upgrade I keep getting this error in /var/log/hobbit/rrd-data.log: ... 2009-05-22 08:22:00 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2009-05-22 08:22:00 Worker process died with exit code 6, terminating .... This error appears every 5 minutes. Only one graph-type is not trended anymore since the upgrade, the xtstatscolumn which deliver all statistics about each drive in the filer. (About +/- 20 graphs). Sometimes, it does trend some data but that is for a very short time, let's say 5 or 15 minutes. Then for hours, nothing. One filer has not been upgraded, but shows the same lack of trending. But that can be caused because I have set it up with MultiThreading (something that can be set using a parameter). Now I will change this to 1 (for each filer a seperate process) to see if the problem can be narrowed, so I'll update this problem later on this weekend. Regards, Peter PS I do not know if this has to do with either Xymon of netapp.pl, but since it is integrated into the Xymon-source (hobbitd/rrd/do_netapp.c) I think it should be posted here.

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no data on xymon server for zonestat
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 30 May '09

30 May '09

I am having trouble getting the zonestat.sh script to update the xymon server. I know I have posted this before, but have gotten limited response. Help would be greatly appreciated. Here is what I have done: Hobbitserver.cfg # status view of a test should include a graph. TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tc p,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apa che,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bb test,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines ,zonestat" # This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends" column webpage, # and the order in which they appear. GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,files,processes,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,t cp.http,tcp,ncv,netstat,ifstat,mrtg::1,ports,temperature,ntp stat,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest, bbproxy,hobbitd,ifstat,clock,lines,zonestat" Hobbitlaunch.cfg [rrddata] ENVFILE /apps/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data \ --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd \ --extra-tests=zonestat \ --extra-script=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrd_data.pl \ --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd Have added to hobbitgraph.cfg the need stuff and also put rrd_data.pl into the ext directory. Looks like on the client everything is running just fine, I get a hobbit_zonestat file create the tmp with information in it. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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