June 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Process monitoring
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

What can i do if i want to monitor proccesses on a machine EX: pro12 but because its part of a group i want it to show up on another page under QDB.. so for a better example: I want pro12 monitored for 4 processes but be displayed in xymon's web page in the name of QDB Thanks guys....everyone here is very helpful and im learning a lot 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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[hobbit] Setting this up and monitoring VM Servers?
by hballinger＠heritage-healthcare.com 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Small world... We use bbclt on the ESX host - along with some externals to monitor the actual hardware (i.e. OpenManage & RAID, etc.). We are also implementing the following custom EXTs for our ESX hosts (will be posted to DeadCat once complete): - a modified "vdf" to output the vmfs information to a vmdisk column - parse "vmware-cmd -l", "vmware-cmd VMNAME getstate", and "vmware-cmd VMNAME getheartbeat" to provide a vmrun column - a modified "du -h" to output the snapshot & vm file sizes & usage to a vmfile column We are also working on SNMP, but prefer using an EXT where possible. We use BBWIN on our Windows guests and BBCLT on the non-Windows guests with every EXT that we can lay our hands on or custom develop. Harold J. Ballinger, MCSE, MCNE IT Coordinator Heritage Healthcare, Inc. 536 Old Howell Rd, Greenville SC 29615 (888) 335-2620 | helpdesk (864) 244-3626 | office (864) 244-3093 | fax Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com

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Best way to put into maintenance
by olivier＠audry.fr 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

from the client... I know I can use downtime tag but it's on the server. My problem is : I don't know the duration of the maintenance. How can I do ? The following command work on the server but not on the client : ./bb $BBIDPS "disable server.service duration comment" Thx for your help Olivier AUDRY

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Xymon crashing
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

I dont know if this will be related for the blog or not but i have to ask. Recently i put up a custom script in xymon that would use vmstat to monitor cpu utilization. All i did in the script was take a report tail it and 'awk'ed out what i wanted to read in and report it to xymon. For a graph i added cpu_util=vmstat" in the hobbitserver.cfg file. Now in the /var/log/xymon/rrdstatus.log is reporting "Too few lines (only 1 or 2) in vmstat report" our server will have a kernal panic and shutdown every couple minutes. Now before this started we also updated the rrd daemon to the most recent version We are running xymon 4.2.2 on unix 2.6.X Does anyone have an idea of what could be going on. I have had the reports going for a two weeks before this happened. and now it just started. Thanks everyone 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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Templates for logs checks
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Hi, That's it, with the previous help, I have been able to check logs files with the Hobbit client in mode --local. I would like to know if anyone here got basic logs checks for messages, Apache and Oracle. So far, I did this : FILE /var/log/messages SIZE>0 MTIME<1200 yellow FILE /var/log/messages yellow "timed out!" FILE /var/log/messages yellow "abort!" LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red LOG /oracle/...../alert_FOO.log "%ORA-%" # Oracle Error Do you have anything else in your pocket? Best regards LMJ

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Tinh Do is out of the office.
by tinh.do＠continental-corporation.com 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

I will be out of the office starting 28.06.2009 and will not return until 13.07.2009. If you have any urgent needs will call me on my cell. I will respond to your message when I return.

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only 3 colu
by tinh.do＠continental-corporation.com 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Any reason why my Netapp filers only show 3 column: Conn Info Trend I tried to make netapp.ini as much as possible to look like filestat2bb.ini. and it does not help. Thanks Continental AG or its subsidiaries.

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SSH Tunnels and Xymon
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Hi Guys We just setup a SSH tunnel link between our Main Hobbit server and several external sites. I just wanted to check with you wizards out there about which ports I need for full Xymon monitoring. From what I understand port 1984 has to be open? The connection test is my main concern which ports needs to be open for Xymon to run a connection test? Regards Neil

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Debugging issues with bb-histlog.sh on 4.3.0
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

I've some "random" failures on bb-histlog.sh, viewing items in the bb2 event log. Some work as expected, but some when clicked appear to do nothing. Hitting the URL for that (say http://den2sch17/hobbit-cgi/bb-histlog.sh?HOST=den1ws063&SERVICE=nfs&TIMEBU…) with curl shows a zero-length reply. Checking the Apache error log shows "Premature end of script headers: bb-histlog.sh, referer: http://den2sch17/hobbit/bb2.html". I have found no core files left behind. How is the best way to debug this problem, with no core files? Is there a good method to run this (or I suppose more specifically, hobbitsvc.cgi) under the debugger and feed it the request so I can tell why it is silently failing? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -Alan

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Feature Suggestion: Clients report version info
by jbl＠jbldata.com 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

I've a suggestion that may have been discussed already. Basically the clients should report to the server what version of Xymon/Hobbit they are running, so that admins can see visually a list of systems that still need to be updated. -- J. Bobby Lopez Web: http://jbldata.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jbobbylopez

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