June 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable
by camorae＠googlemail.com 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hi guys, im monitoring with some external scripts on my BBWin and when i try to set up the "check time" higher (like one time a day) I noticed that the column get unavaliable after 30 minutes for this client. Is it a know issue? I also tryed to put this paragraphs (i readed it here somewhere) in the hobbit-client.cfg: MAXMSG_DATA="5242880" MAXMSG_CLIENT="5242880" MAXMSG_STATUS="5242880" Nothing works... do i have to setup something else on server/client side? TIA

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Installing Xymon Client
by Cedric.Lang＠orlandohealth.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with installing the new xymon client. Recently, I installed the client on a server that was running the old hobbit client just fine. Once I installed the xymon client and I ran the start command, I received the following: su - xymon -c "/xymon/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/client/runclient.sh start" Cannot write to the /xymon/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/client/logs directory So I tried to run the ./configure.client but during the setup it said that the following was missing: Checking for the PCRE libraries Checking for PCRE ... PCRE include- or library-files not found. These are REQUIRED for hobbitd PCRE can be found at http://www.pcre.org/ If you have PCRE installed, use the "--pcreinclude DIR" and "--pcrelib DIR" options to configure to specify where they are. I don't remembering having to do all this to just get the hobbit client running. What am I missing? Thanks. ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health.

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[hobbit] ZONESTAT and MPSTAT graphs show as broken links
by John.Browning＠sas.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Kevin, Let's try and keep traffic on the list. I didn't do anything different than what the instructions said except I found this on a posting which worked for me. This is what should be in your bb-hosts file for your host. 10.x.x.x foo # TRENDS:*,zonestat:zonestatcpu|zonestatmem|zonestatnproc|zonestatsize|zonersssize,mpstat:mpstatusr|mpstatsys|mpstatwt|mpstatidl Hope this helps! -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:25 AM To: John Browning Subject: RE: [hobbit] ZONESTAT and MPSTAT graphs show as broken links John - I hope it is okay to contract you directly, but I have had no luck with posting it. I am having trouble with the zonestat.sh not showing up. Just wondering how you managed to get yours working? Did you do anything that different than what the instructions say to do? Thanks in advance! -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: John Browning [mailto:John.Browning at sas.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:45 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] ZONESTAT and MPSTAT graphs show as broken links Figured it out. Problem was with the BB-HOSTS line, needed TRENDS:*,mpstat..etc -------------------------------------------- John Browning UNIX Systems Administrator R&D DataCenter www.sas.com<http://www.sas.com/> SAS(r) ... THE POWER TO KNOW(r) To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ______________________________________________________________________ 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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Centralized monitoring and custom checks
by marney＠teramedica.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi, We're evaluating Xymon to monitor our Java application at client sites. We will be writing custom checks, but we'd like to set thresholds for colors (and alerts) at the server. It seems like HOBBIT-CLIENTS.CFG would be the place to do this, but I don't see how I would list my custom service check there. I should add: more than half our clients' servers are Windows (rest are Solaris or AIX), so I've been playing with bbwin. It seems to have an option "bbwinupdate" where it pulls config files from the Xymon server. I think that would work for us, but it doesn't help us for the Unix boxes. Thanks, Mike Arney Database Engineer marney at teramedica.com<mailto:kbrahm at teramedica.com> www.teramedica.com<http://www.teramedica.com>

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[hobbit] False red alerts for disk
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

>Did you solve it by increasing the max size of the messages? I increased these in hobbitserver.cfg (if they are not there add them in) MAXLINE= MAXMSG_STATUS= MAXMSG_CLIENT= I have not seen the weird disk errors since. Craig

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netapp.pl and monitoring limits
by roaldly＠gmail.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi! We have just started using Xymon/Hobbit and netapp.pl to monitor two Netapps, and have set the quota monitoring limits like this in netapp.ini: /vol/s50/saa4Q = 10G:101% thinking (after reading the comments in netapp.ini) that this would give a warning when there is 10G of free disk space (and a red alarm if it ever reaches 101%) But we get alarms like this: /vol/s50/saa4 (5.2G free - 2.60%) has reached the defined WARNING level (10G) while the actual data are: Full Qtree Path Total Used Available %Used Vol/Qtree /vol/s50/saa4 200.0G 5.2G 194.8G 3% s50/saa4 So the script obviously takes the 10G warning limit as a limit of disk usage, not available space. This seems to be contrary to the explanation in netapp.pl: " # NEW [filername] parameters for netapp.pl version 1.05 # /vol/vol0D = warn:panic # Warning/Panic level for disk space /vol/vol0 # /vol/vol0I = warn:panic # Warning/Panic level for inode usage /vol/vol0 # /vol/vol0/.snapshotS = warn:panic # Warning/Panic level for snapshot /vol/vol0/.snapshot # /vol/vol0/qtree1Q = warn:panic # Warning/Panic level for qtree /vol/vol0/qtree1 # # All those parameters will accept 2 parameters separated by ":". # The first is the warning level (yellow) and the second the panic level (red) # Each of them can be in the 2 form: # a) a percentage like 95% or 57.43% that is checked against the volume percent used space/inode # b) an absolute value like 200 or 200000 that can be followed by a modifier (k,m,g,t) # that is checked against the free space/inode on the volume # You can mix the 2 form in the same check so for example: # /vol/vol0D = 95.50%:5G " Any ideas if there is an easy fix for this? -Roald

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Changing default status icon display times
by Eric.Weideman＠ftc.usda.gov 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to change the amount of time that a status change is held on the "All Non-Green View" page? I have uptime monitored but do not want it to stay at the top of the list for more then one minute before disappearing. Currently they stick around for 5-10 minutes. Thanks! Eric Weideman Systems Administrator (Contractor) Natek Inc. e: eric.weideman at ftc.usda.gov <mailto:eric.weideman at ftc.usda.gov> ~ Duty is ours; outcomes belong to God. - President John Adams ~

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[hobbit] ZONESTAT and MPSTAT graphs show as broken links
by John.Browning＠sas.com 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Figured it out. Problem was with the BB-HOSTS line, needed TRENDS:*,mpstat..etc -------------------------------------------- John Browning UNIX Systems Administrator R&D DataCenter www.sas.com<http://www.sas.com/> SAS(r) ... THE POWER TO KNOW(r)

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False red alerts for disk
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Sounds like what I saw previously: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/10/msg00416.html I think the cause was oversize messages coming into the Xymon server... Craig

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FW: multi-graphs again
by nelis＠nlr.nl 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hello, I'm certainly not the first person to hit the problem of one test with a variable number of graphs. There are a number of threads about this topic. In my case, monitoring of licenses is needed. There are two license servers, one Linux and one Windows, each with an own set of licensed products. Each product has one or more features. Besides monitoring (are all licenses of a product/feature in use?) also the use of licenses over time is needed. In this case we'll need one graph per feature, each graph will show two lines, the total number of licenses and the number of used licenses. The current setup is to send a status message to Xymon, with a list of NCV values. SPLITNCV is used to get each value into a separate .rrd file. After some tests, I have the following questions. A) If a multiplicity is specified in hobbitserver.cfg, GRAPHS="...,license::1,...", the number of lines (and in this case thus also the number of graphs) is determined from the number of files which in this example have a name effectively matching RE "^license,.+\.rrd$". On the other hand, hobbitgraph.cgi seems to count the files which match the RE specified in hobbitgraph.cfg, FNPATTERN. These two counts need not be the same. Is it possible to have the associated FNPATTERN to be used to determine the number of lines to draw? B) The name in an NCV is often a meaningful description of what is being measured. The name becomes part of the filename when using SPLITNCV. The meaningful part of the file name can be extracted by using parentheses in FNPATTERN, for instance "^license,(.+)\.rrd$". That part of the name is available as @RRDPARAM at . However it cannot be substituted in the title of the graph. If in hobbitgraph.cfg one specifies "TITLE license_feature @RRDPARAM@", that is exactly what you get. Using the possibility to have the title generated by a script does not help: it seems to be invoked once for the set of graphs, in stead of once for each graph. Is it a reasonably small change to make a new title for each graph, either by substitution or via a script? C) In hobbitserver.cfg, GRAPHS the multiplicity is specified. The graphs in the trends column are as expected, showing one line per graph. However, the graphs in the test column, license in this case, show four lines per graph. How can one set the multiplicity for the test column? Regards, Wim Nelis. ******************************************************************************************************* The NLR disclaimer (http://www.nlr.nl/emaildisclaimer) is valid for NLR e-mail messages. *******************************************************************************************************

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