June 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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

11 Jun '09

I've setup the two scripts for zonestat and mpstat from here: http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:zonestat and here: http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors:mpstat I've followed the directions carefully and thoroughly and I get broken links for graphs in the "Trends" section of the host I have it configured on. I searched through the email threads and saw some others had this issue, but no solution seemed to be posted afterwards. Could someone reply with a solution if they know a fix? I'm a bit reserved in contacting the developer directly about this, I like to keep all xymon traffic on the list. My server is running Xymon 4.2.3, the client is currently running at 4.2.0. The script is reporting data, the RRD files have data, the graphs simply show as broken links. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -------------------------------------------- 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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Using two servers as one
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi, We are migrating from big brother to xymon and the project fell on my laps :). in BB they were able to monitor two servers and report them back to BB using a different name..... EX: our manugisitcs is the name of nothing but is monitoring different logs and databases from three different servers. How can that be done on Xymon.. the file structures are completely different and its hard to follow. I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Notice: This communication is an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. � 2510. Its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient(s) intended by the sender of this message. This transmission and any attachments may contain proprietary, confidential, attorney-client privileged information and/or attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, reliance on, or use of any of the information contained herein is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any matter and confirm by return email.

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monitoring rules
by stef.coene＠docum.org 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi, I need to document the monitoring rules that are used by Xymon. I can try to parse the hobbit-clients.cfg config file, but I need the information sorted by server. So, is there a way to ask the xymon server 'hey, what monitoring rules do you use for serverX ?' ? Stef

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Alert mail TIME tag
by Samuel.RENARD＠cg29.fr 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi ! I've a little problem with alerts mail . The tag "TIME" is not working. This is my alert : GROUP=spooleur-email TIME=W:0800:1800 MAIL=samuel.renard at cg29.fr So in this case, I want xymon to alert me between 08am to 18 pm on the week. But I receive some alerts at 3am and 4am. So, what's wrong ? Regards, Samuel Renard Apprenti Ingénieur Service Infrasctructures et Sécurité Conseil Général du finistère email: samuel.renard at cg29.fr tél: +33(0)2 98 76 62 29 Ce message a ete scanne par l'anti-virus du Conseil General du Finistere.

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Xymon Server DNS
by pmeech＠gmail.com 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi All, I imagine this is quite a simple one, and I'm overlooking something...but here goes... I have Xymon 4.2.3 installed on Ubuntu; upgraded from Hobbit and it's been in production for almost a year now (including the time spent as hobbit). As our monitored network has grown, obviously the amount of lookups has increased with it. To try and speed up the tests I setup the Xymon server as a DNS server (slave for our domain, and forwarder onto the ISP DNS servers). Locally it works fine i.e. nslookup queries itself, and I can dig the DC and domain (again queried locally); from a remote machine I can also query the DNS on the Xymon server. However, Xymon reports the DNS service as down. Any ideas? Cheers, Phil

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Can't access xymon web page on new install.
by pnward＠googlemail.com 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi, I am kicking myself for not knowng this but I'll ask anyway. Just completed an install of xymon on rhel3, no problems. I choose to use the el3 xymon rpm. After it installed I tried to access the web page via http://localhost/xymon but I can only see the directories not the web page. what am I not doing. Successfull install ---> rpm -ivh xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm xymon-client-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm warning: xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 60d204a7 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] Adding user xymon to group adm 1:xymon-client ########################################### [ 50%] 2:xymon ########################################### [100%] web page for localhost/xymon ---> Index of /xymon Icon Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Parent Directory - [DIR] gifs/ 05-Dec-2009 16:28 - [DIR] help/ 05-Dec-2009 16:28 - [DIR] menu/ 05-Dec-2009 16:28 - [DIR] notes/ 26-Feb-2009 03:43 - [DIR] rep/ 26-Feb-2009 03:43 - [DIR] snap/ 26-Feb-2009 03:43 - cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/hobbit-apache.conf ---> Alias /xymon "/var/lib/xymon/www/" <Directory "/var/lib/xymon/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/usr/lib/xymon/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/usr/lib/xymon/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/usr/lib/xymon/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/usr/lib/xymon/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthUserFile /etc/xymon/hobbitpasswd AuthGroupFile /etc/xymon/hobbitgroups AuthType Basic AuthName "Xymon Administration" # "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in. Require valid-user # "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND # are members of the "admins" group in hobbitgroups. # Require group admins </Directory> I am sure this crops up alot but I can't see the fix. Thanks

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False red alerts for disk
by patrik＠jalbum.net 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi, Running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2, I sometimes gets false red alerts from disk on a few servers (One of the servers is the xymon server itself). Usually disk status is reported green, as this: Wed Jun 10 16:29:17 CEST 2009 - Filesystems OK Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 204603376 1616748 192593380 1% / But occasionally, I get red alerts, like this: - Filesystems NOT ok red 192593256 1% / (1616872% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Filesystem 1024-blocks Use] Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 204603376 1616872 192593256 1% / Somehow the parsing of the client data doesn't work right, resulting the disk blocks being interpreted as percent used. The corresponding df part in the actual client report looks like this: [df] Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 204603376 1616872 192593256 1% / On another server, the false red alert looks like this: Wed Jun 10 15:51:53 CEST 2009 - Filesystems NOT ok red 44% / (2778580% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) red 6% /home (2167204% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Filesystem 1 24-]locks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/xvda2 5162828 2121988 2778580 44% / /dev/xvda3 24 7244 ] 136744 2167204 6% /home While it usually looks like this: Wed Jun 10 15:56:54 CEST 2009 - Filesystems OK Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/xvda2 5162828 2122012 2778556 44% / /dev/xvda3 2427244 136784 2167164 6% /home Slightly different, but once again, blocks used being interpreted as percentage used. Anyone has an idea of what might be causing this? Thanks, Patrik Nilsson

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bbd is displayed as purple but bbd is running.. I think.
by pnward＠googlemail.com 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi again, My next issue with hobbit is the bbd connection is shown as purple however hobbit-client is running, Please show me how to trouble shoot this one. Thanks :) ps aux|grep -i hobbit hobbit 1435 0.0 0.4 3232 1384 ? S 16:51 0:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.1424 2>&1; mv /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.1424 /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat hobbit 1437 0.0 0.2 2056 768 ? S 16:51 0:00 vmstat 300 2 hobbit 1529 0.0 0.1 1904 576 ? Ss 16:55 0:00 /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg --log=/usr/lib/hobbit/client/logs/clientlaunch.log --pidfile=/usr/lib/hobbit/client/logs/clientlaunch.pid hobbit 1542 0.0 0.4 3232 1384 ? S 16:55 0:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.1531 2>&1; mv /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.1531 /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat hobbit 1544 0.0 0.2 2056 768 ? S 16:55 0:00 vmstat 300 2 root 1551 0.0 0.2 3144 944 pts/11 R+ 16:56 0:00 grep -i hobbit --

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Creating graphs for custom scripts
by john.r.rothlisberger＠accenture.com 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Ok, I have had some luck with this but things changed as I moved forward. First off I did follow the instructions that are here: http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbit/help/howtograph.html But, what I am trying to graph is physical/logical disk queue length of my windows boxes. My server is ubuntu and I do have a script that actually can go out to multiple hosts to get the information (disk queue length). My problem is that under my test column each host can have a different set of drives to get stats for. So, say serverA has drives C & D but serverB has drives C & E. I can make serverA graph if I define exactly what is sent to Xymon drives C & D. What I would like to do is have the config in hobbitgraph.cfg be able to work with data returned from any number of drives. These can all be in the same single graph or in multiple graphs (can't seem to get either to work). So, in hobbitserver.cfg I have added: TEST2RRD="...,hdd_test=nvc" ... NVC_hdd_test="diskqueueC:GAUGE,diskqueueD:GAUGE,diskqueueE:GAUGE" I have also tried: NVC_hdd_test="diskqueue*:GAUGE" NVC_hdd_test="diskqueue:GAUGE" Also - test2rrd without the "=nvc" and without the lines above. In hobbitgraph.cfg I have many different configurations but I can't get the graph to work unless I specifically define each variable and then it will only work with a single host that matches a specific set of drives. I would add my hobbitgraph.cfg additions but there have been so many different modifications if I put only one in it would tell the whole story. Is there a way to add a graph definition to hobbitgraph.cfg that uses wildcards? Something like: [hdd_test] FNPATTERN hdd_test(.*).rrd TITLE Avg. Disk Queue Length YAXIS Queued Requests DEF:diskqueue at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:pct:AVERAGE LINE1:diskqueue at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -l 0 GPRINT:diskqueue at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:diskqueue at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:diskqueue at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:diskqueue at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n The values sent to Xymon test column "hdd_test" would look like (of course these could be C & E, C & D, or any other combo): diskqueueC : 0 diskqueueE : 0 Thanks, John _____________________________________________________________________ John R. Rothlisberger Accenture * Accenture Infrastructure Outsourcing Office: 312.693.3136 * Octel: 68/33136 * Fax: 312.652.3136 MSN: johnr3728 at hotmail.com AIM: johnr3728 _____________________________________________________________________ This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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1984 - Connection refused
by lka0871＠rogers.com 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi All, Could someone tell me why this is happening? 2009-06-10 13:26:46 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 - Connection refused 2009-06-10 13:26:46 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-06-10 13:31:47 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 - Connection refused 2009-06-10 13:31:47 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-06-10 13:36:48 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 - Connection refused 2009-06-10 13:36:48 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-06-10 13:41:48 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 - Connection refused 2009-06-10 13:41:48 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed logs$ telnet 10.180.224.59 1984 Trying 10.180.224.59... Connected to 10.180.224.59. Escape character is '^]'. When the hobbit server is on port 1984; sage:~# lsof | grep 1984 hobbitd 21404 hobbit 3u IPv4 132856 TCP *:1984 (LISTEN) -- 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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