June 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Hosts with multiple IP's + scheduling standard hosts
by mv652＠softhome.net 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hi, I've searched the archive as well as online but couldn't find a concrete answer. How can I monitor hosts that have multiple IP Addresses? Currently we assign a 'virtual hostname' to each IP: IP Hostname_a IP Hostname_b IP Hostanme_c etc. I'm sure there muct be a simpler way. Secondly, I've seen posts that explain how to schedule checks and alerts for 'critical' hosts with "NKTIME", but is there a way to schedule check of all hosts without adding them to a 'critical' list? We only want to check certain hosts 19:00 - 06:00 M-F for example. Thanks, Mario

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Oversized status message errors
by Michael.Thompson＠Rentacenter.com 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hello Henrik, We are getting the below errors in Xymon. I saw a few references to this in the mailing list and the fix was supposed to in the hobbitserver.cfg MAX_MSG setting. I can't find that entry in 4.2.3 can you advise on how to get rid of these messages? The messages are being sent from an HPUX system to a RedHat Linux system Thanks Latest errormessages: Oversize data/client msg from x.x.x.x truncated (n=720824, limit 524288) First line: rachp14|hp-ux|hp-ux Oversize status msg from x.x.x.x for rachp14:ports truncated (n=504081, limit=262144) Michael Thompson Linux Administrator Rent-A-Center 5501 Headquarters Drive Plano, TX 75024 Email: Michael.Thompson at Rentacenter.com<mailto:Michael.Thompson at Rentacenter.com> Phone: 972.801.1412 Cell: 972-841-4307

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bbtest-net ping results red for host that is alive
by vadud3＠gmail.com 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

why is bbtest-net fails but regular ping or fping finds it alive for this host? This behavior is consistent (hobbit)@hobbit:~/server$ ./bin/bbcmd bbtest-net --no-update --ping --checkresponse ----debug > out 2009-06-09 13:01:10 Using default environment file /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg (hobbit)@hobbit:~/server$ grep 1.2.3.4 out 2009-06-09 13:02:04 Adding to combo msg: status 1,2,3,4.conn red  Tue Jun 9 13:01:10 2009 conn NOT ok status 1,2,3,4.conn red  Tue Jun 9 13:01:10 2009 conn NOT ok &red 1.2.3.4 is unreachable status 1,2,3,4.conn red  Tue Jun 9 13:01:10 2009 conn NOT ok Service conn on 1.2.3.4 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping &red 1.2.3.4 is unreachable (hobbit)@hobbit:~/server$ fping 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 is alive (hobbit)@hobbit:~/server$ ping 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 is alive (hobbit)@hobbit:~/server$ grep 216.111.66.254 etc/bb-hosts 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 # testip badconn:10:20:30 (hobbit)@hobbit:~/server$ grep 216.111.66.254 tmp/hobbitd.chk @@HOBBITDCHK-V1||1.2.3.4|conn|1.1.1.1|red|ordAsTLe|red|1244566684|1244560884|1244568484|0|0|136967|1244647284|status 1,2,3,4.conn red  Tue Jun 9 12:56:51 2009 conn NOT ok \n\nService conn on 1.2.3.4 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping\n\n\nSystem unreachable for 238 poll periods (70836 seconds)\n\n&red 1.2.3.4 is unreachable\nTraceroute results:\ntraceroute to 1.2.3.4 (1.2.3.4), 15 hops max, 40 byte packets\n 1 [..stripped to save to the innocents..]\n 8 * *\n 9 * *\n10 * *\n11 * *\n12 * *\n13 * *\n14 * *\n\n\n\n\n|| (hobbit)@hobbit:~/server$ -- 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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New feature request for Bbgen / Xymon?
by wrichardson＠llbean.com 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

I have a page of 4 hosts and 35 custom tests plus the normal client tests so over 40 columns. Any way to invert this to have just the 4 hosts on the top and the 40+ tests down the side? As it is today it just doesn't fit/format right on the screen and is hard to view. I wonder if anyone else has run into this one? Example: The normal Xymon view looks like this test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 test11 test12 test13 test14 test15 test16 test17 test18 test19 test20 host1 host2 host3 host4 Any way to put the hosts on the columns to look like this: host1 host2 host3 host4 test1 test2 test3 test4 test5 test6 test7 test8 test9 test10 test11 test12 test13 test14 test15 test16 test17 test18 test19 test20 Bill Richardson

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Hobbit startup script.
by davidp＠electronf.com 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

Hi, I understand that hobbit needs to run as the hobbit user, but it is a bit annoying to have the hobbit startup script require the hobbit user to run it. When I want to run it automagically out of /etc/init.d I have to change the script to not check for hobbit and then do an su to the hobbit user thus: su -c "/home/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/hob bitserver.cfg --log=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.log --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.pid" why is it done this way rather than as above, thus allowing the server to start out of init.d?

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How do I change the "mail from" for email alerts?
by hballinger＠heritage-healthcare.com 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

My /var/spool/exim4/msglog is filling up with messages similar to the following: 2009-06-04 12:26:17 Received from hobbit@ U=hobbit P=local S=929 2009-06-04 12:26:33 it at mydomain.com <IT at mydomain.com> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<hobbit@> SIZE=1973: host exchange.mydomain [10.10.10.21]: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address Process failed (1) when writing error message to hobbit@ (frozen) I have reconfigured Exim4 to allow remote mail, but I can't find a way to make the email alerts from hobbit/xymon use a different "MAIL FROM" than "hobbit@", which our Exchange server knows is not a valid address. I have tried making sure that the hostname is defined in the bbserver config and that the domain is configured in resolv.conf. I also tried creating an entry for "hobbit: hobbit at mydomain.com<mailto:hobbit at mydomain.com>" in /etc/email-addresses I'm not a *nix guru by any means, and I'm sure this is something simple that I'm missing?

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Need help on "Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):" error message
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

My hobbit server is suffering following error message in page.log file. 1. Current error messages in page.log, not like the other problem on this list, I don't have anything after ":" character to help me debug. hobbit$ tail page.log 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): hobbit$ 2. After RTFM, Following is an expanded debug log after I added "--debug" at page daemon in hobbitlaunch.cfg. (11 days ago) 2.1 in following log, do this mean the tsail-c's TIME=W:0080:1800 macro has syntax issue ? 2009-05-22 23:59:16 cleanup_alert called for host tsail-c.test.com, test memory 2009-05-22 23:59:16 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-22 23:59:16 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-05-22 23:59:16 Weekday does not match 2009-05-22 23:59:16 No more secondary matching rule 2009-05-22 23:59:16 Found no first matching rule 2009-05-22 23:59:16 cleanup_alert called for host turn50.test.com, test conn 2.2 following are more clueless error, it didn't show any host information and it says "00:01:34 Found a first matching rule" and then "00:01:34 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):" 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 start,end,current time = 0, 1439, 1 - found=1 2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 start,end,current time = 0, 1439, 1 - found=1 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule 2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match 2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule 3. I tried commented out all the "DOWNTIME" entries in bb-hosts* files, but "Bad timespec ..." still keep spitting into page.log. 4. Seems to me both DOWNTIME(bb-host*) and TIME (in hobbit-alerts.cfg*) both generate same kind of error message. T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutor…

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Howto display page hobbit in columns / <table>
by mailinglist.benoit＠gmail.com 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

Hello guys !!! I have one page "All_switchs" which display all switchs in my firm. This list is very very long. And with my mouse this is boring. I want know if it's possible to display list on 2/3 columns or in table ? Thank you Regards -- <mailinglist.benoit - at - gmail!com>

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[hobbit] zonestat.sh
by davidp＠electronf.com 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

I have exactly the same problem so I suspect it is not just your setup. I tried a little bit of debugging but got sidetracked back onto something else.

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Windows client on BBWIN 0.12 reports panic level disk error
by km＠keithm.us 04 Jun '09

04 Jun '09

All, I have a simple question hopefully... In the hobbit-client.cfg file I have a number of tests set for this particular Windows server running the bbwin 0.12 client. I was able to successfully configure procs, services, etc. On the local client config file ONLY the "C" drive is defined and "D" is set to be ignored due to the D drive collecting rolling log files and it will always be at 99%. In the hobbit-client.cfg file the D drive is not shown and the default section was removed. I am unable to locate the 95% panic level setting. Can anyone help with this?

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