July 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Availability report issue
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hey everyone Happy be-lated 4th of july, I am trying to get the availability reports to work and i am coming up with the following error. Generating report for the period: Jul 02 2009 - Jul 05 2009 (all) --bbrep-22987-12468835 Content-type: text/html Could not generate report. Check that the /home/xymon/server/www/rep/ directory has permissions '-rwxrwxr-x' (775) and that is is set to group 48 I checked the rep directory and i have this drwxrwxr-x 2 xymon xymon 1024 Feb 9 14:22 rep it says that it needs to be group 48.....Is that literally said that it needs to be group 48??? Has anyone had this problem? Thanks again everyone....you have all been very helpful 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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prerequisites AIX
by marek.modrzynski＠itc.alstom.com 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hi, I am quite new in the subject here. Could you advice how could i find prerequisites for installing and functioning client on AIX. I am struggling now that even Hobbit processes are running on client , there are only basic info for monitored servers , looks like the client is not doing any jobs. Maybe quick checklist? we got following view: the mmtest is switched off. SUELB10018-7 have the client running. I need to define more services, by default there are much more defined already and running for windows clients. Best regards / Cordialement / Freundliche Grüsse / Pozdrawiam, Marek Modrzynski System Administration - Operations Bridge Data Centre Service Line Global IT Operations ALSTOM IT Shared Service Centres Phone : +48 55 239 1884 Fax : +48 55 239 16 15 With Alstom, preserve the environment. Is printing this email really necessary ? :._______________ CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium.

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Software platforms for Hobbit
by dean.clark＠rodney.govt.nz 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hi, Could you please advise what software platforms Hobbit server can be installed on? Regards Dean Clark DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this email message is confidential and for the attention of the intended recipient only. It is not necessarily the official view or communication of the Rodney District Council. If you are not the intended recipient you must not disclose, copy or distribute this message or the information in it. If you have received this message in error, please delete or destroy all copies of the email and notify the sender immediately. Rodney District Council accepts no responsibility for any effects this email message or attachments has on the recipient network or computer system.

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DOWNTIME not working
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Hellow fellow xymon users, I am stuck. I have a custom test on a host that only runs from 7am to 11am. The rest of the time it does not run. I dont want it to show up purple just blue. I will put exactly what my bb-hosts file shows 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh DOWNTIME=rouge_detector:*:1100:0700 i tried this and it should work I've also tried 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh "DOWNTIME=rouge_detector:*:1100:0700" 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh "DOWNTIME= [rouge_detector:]*:1100:0700" 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh DOWNTIME= [rouge_detector:]*:1100:0700 0.0.0.0. Pro015 #NOCOLUMNS:cpu ftp ssh SLA=*:1100:0700 I dont know why the "rouge_detector" test will not go blue. I just dont want it to show up purple from 11am till 7am the next day... any ideas...Is this even the correct format ... In bb-hosts man pages it says DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause [,day:starttime:endtime:cause] thanks guys....you guys save my job :D 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 and bb-sar.sh
by tainted.soul69＠googlemail.com 05 Jul '09

05 Jul '09

Hi everyone, I'm sure this has been raised numerous times. Most of the threads I see are way back in 2006 or earlier so hoping things have progressed nicely since then. Basically I want sar graphs in Hobbit/Xymon 4.2.3. I have just recently migrated from BigBrother and this is about the only thing left to do. I followed the instructions on the following page : http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/reports:xymonpdf The SAR column appears, I click on a say the CPU graph and the picture shows but there is no activity whatsoever. It's just a blank graph? Now I ran 'sar -A 1 1' and dont see "Average" as mentioned in the following paragraph. Quote: ** Watch out for the locale used on your system !! All my systems are configured with english locale and so are my scripts. If something is not working, please check the output of a 'sar' command ('sar -A 1 1') and seek for the word 'Average'. This word is used in my 'extragraph.sh' script to extract the infos…* Has anyone had this issue or have an idea what is going on. All help appreciated. And thanks to those for all their hard work on Hobbit/Xymon. Regards Shaun

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Need help, or new feature request - Indent host.
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi all Is there a way to indent a host in the hobbit view? I want to list my physical host in the standard view, followed by the hosted virtual zones (Solaris 10 here) after it. But I want a way to see at a glance which are physical and which are zones. I was thinking a display that looked something like this HostA * * * VHost1 * * * VHost2 * * * HostB * * * VHost3 * * * VHost4 * * * Is there a way of doing this? If not, can I add this as a feature request? Maybe an indent keyword in the bb-hosts tags? Possibly even take it a step further, and add indent[index] to allow for further indents of more than one tab? Possible? Regards Vernon NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.

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hobbit-clients.cfg
by paulduff＠tpg.com.au 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi, I have recently installed xymon 4.3.0.0-beta2 on Solaris 10 and everything is working good except that the hobbit-clients.cfg file seems to be ignoring DISK entries. Below is the entry that I have on the server under $xymon_home/server/etc. Have I incorrectly setup the IGNORE entries as they are still being reported on the disk page. HOST=hostname.xx.xxxx.com UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 DISK /prod/CD_X86 IGNORE DISK /etc/svc/volatile IGNORE DISK /etc/dfs/dsftab IGNORE FILE /serial_number SIZE>0 yellow MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 PROC cron PROC ncftpd 3 4 PROC ssh Regards Paul

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bb-findhost.cgi fails
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi ! On one of my hobbit-server (4.2.0 + allpatches) the search for hosts fails with option "jump to page" .. if i disable this option it's fine ... With the option "jump to page", i've got a google webside with "keyword:servername" in the address-bar .. Any hints ? thanks & cheers Martin

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Lars-Ole G Nielsen/SCA/CSC is out of the office.
by lnielsen4＠csc.com 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

I will be out of the office starting 03-07-2009 and will not return until 13-07-2009. I will respond to your message when I return.

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false alert-mail from different hosts
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi ! I've got tonight several alert-mails of 3 host, which a false, because they've got the data from three other hosts .. I know it's sounds very strange ...:-( e.g. hobbit gives me an alert for HostA, because the disk is full and special processes are not running, but if i look into the full alert-mail .. i see some host specfic processes which are not from the Host A but insteed from Host B .. How could this be ? :-c Any hints .. Thanks & Cheers Martin

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