July 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Marek MODRZYNSKI is out of the office.
by marek.modrzynski＠itc.alstom.com 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

I will be out of the office starting 07/16/2009 and will not return until 07/27/2009. I will respond to your message when I return. in urgent cases please call +48602504507.

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[hobbit] hobbitd using up CPU
by tainted.soul69＠googlemail.com 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

Hi everyone, I'm running hobbit 4.2.3 inside a Solaris 10 Zone on a sun v240 and noticing high CPU load. Is this normal? Are others seeing hobbitd rack up loads of CPU time? *Specs:* CPU Freq Size Implementation Mask Status Location --- -------- ---------- --------------------- ----- ------ -------- 0 1503 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 3.4 on-line MB/P0 1 1503 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 3.4 on-line MB/P1 *TOP output:* CPU states: 0.0% idle, 80.6% user, 19.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 2048M phys mem, 52M free mem, 4005M total swap, 3992M free swap PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 599 hobbit 1 30 0 2704K 1472K cpu/1 623:38 15.22% hobbitd_channel 461 hobbit 1 11 0 5680K 2024K run 625:30 14.06% hobbitd 600 hobbit 1 21 0 2960K 1472K run 621:58 14.00% hobbitd_channel 598 hobbit 1 2 0 2704K 1496K run 622:11 13.86% hobbitd_channel 595 hobbit 1 22 0 2704K 1472K run 625:11 12.10% hobbitd_channel 596 hobbit 1 22 0 2960K 1464K run 621:17 11.72% hobbitd_channel 597 hobbit 1 22 0 2704K 1440K run 626:18 11.41% hobbitd_channel

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some clients ssh test is purple right fron installation of clients
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

hello, i have 288 clients reporting to one server for xymon 4.2.2.but some bunch of clients have status of ssh as purple always right from begining.only ssh test is purple.i am not getting any cause or solution.kindly help. -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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Alerts
by hballinger＠heritage-healthcare.com 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

We have multiple pages of hosts, so my alerts configuration is based on page. Each page may have 20 or more hosts. The problem that I am running into is that I want to receive alerts for all tests for all hosts on the page except there is at times a specific test for a specific host that I want to exclude from the alerts. I want it to show up in the monitoring system, but I don't want to be alerted. However, I do want to be alerted for this specific server's other tests, so I do not want to exclude the entire host, just the one test. Any ideas on how I can accomplish this without having to make an alert rule for each and every host and without losing the status history in monitoring for the test I want to not hear about? Thanks!

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Xymon queries on Timezone & graphs.
by Dinabandhu.Mitra＠tecnotree.com 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Hi, We have recently started using xymon as a monitoring tool. We are facing some hurdles in using for our needs. I have given the details below. It would be great if someone can give us few pointers - 1. Timezone We are planning to have a multilayered monitoring structure. We have a central xymon server at our head office. Which is used by HO admins to monitor local offices. Each Site has a xymon server and a proxy. The site server is used by site admins to monitor the local site. The clients send data to local proxy, which forwards to both local and central server. The sites are in different time zones. Ideally we would want the graphs to show timestamps as per the local time zone of each server. Is there a way to do this? We saw one post on mail archives that mentions this. But the solution given for graphs on that post is not quite clear. 2. The graphs shows four graphs for each test; 48hrs, 12days,48 days & 576 days. After some digging in code we found that these intervals are actually a function of step & RRA values. In the current code both the step (always default 300) and RRA is hardcoded. If we change the code to take step and RRAs dynamically (we are looking at do_external), will the graph generation utility automatically take this into account and generate additional graphs. This might be theoretically possible as "rrdtool info" command gives the necessary details. Regards, Dinabandhu

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Reg- Working manual for BBWIN
by Veeramani.Venkatraman＠in.unisys.com 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

Dear Tech Support, I have download and installed the BBWIN for Windows XP machine but I don't know how to use the same Could you please provide me the details and step by step process for how to use the BBWIN SOFTWARE? Thanks in Advance Regards, Veeramani V

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windows logs
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Hi everyone, Does anyone monitor windows system logs? When we installed the bbwin client on the machine it started to just crazily send messages to xymon. The harddrive for xymon went from 20% to 98% in one night. I tried to ignore logs but it still takes them in... Its reading all the sucessful logins as well as the failures and logs them so i get about 8 entries every second from all 189 hosts. page=Wintel LOG %.* %.*sucess.* IGNORE this is what i tried to do to ignore them.. Has anyone ran into this issue before? 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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msgcache 4.2.0 core dumps on AIX 5.3
by j.gross＠ssc-services.de 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

We are running a passive Xymon client 4.2.0 with msgcache enabled on AIX 5.3. msgcache exits with an IOT/Abort trap when receiving messages. The following patch to msgcache.c fixes this problem: 230c230 < char idx[20]; --- > char idx[40]; 232c232 < STRBUFLEN(mwalk->msgbuf), (long)(now - mwalk->tstamp)); --- > (int)STRBUFLEN(mwalk->msgbuf), (long)(now - mwalk->tstamp)); 529c529 < int caddrsize; --- > socklen_t caddrsize; Best regards, Johannes

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split-ncv not working in Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2
by wrichardson＠llbean.com 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

I tried to use the split-ncv function in Xymon 4.3.0 beta2 and get the following error in the rrd-status.log: 2009-07-14 13:49:46 RRD error creating /home/xymon/data/rrd/hostname/column,test.rrd: Duplicate DS name: lambda I did a search on the mailing list and found Charles posting with a patch for this dated back in Nov 2007. I made the change and recompiled and it fixed the problem. The change to be made is still at line 177 of the do_ncv.c Change from "if (split_ncv && (paridx > 1)) {" Change to "if (split_ncv && (paridx > 0)) {" Does anyone know why the following changes didn't make it to the current versions of Xymon? Thanks __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk * Subject: [patch] off-by-one in do_ncv.c * From: Charles Goyard <charles.goyard (at) orange-ftgroup.com> * Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:37:38 +0100 * User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) ________________________________ Hi Henrik, I tried to update my hobbitd_rrd to the current snapshot version, and I got loads of "Duplicate DS name: lambda" when using split-ncv. I found the error lies here : --- do_ncv.c.old 2007-09-11 15:00:20.000000000 +0200 +++ do_ncv.c 2007-11-26 16:36:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ } } - if (split_ncv && (paridx > 1)) { + if (split_ncv && (paridx > 0)) { create_and_update_rrd(hostname, testname, params, NULL); /* We've created one RRD, so reset the * params for the next one */ With this modification, it works. Thanks for your great software ! I hope 4.3 will be out soon ! -- Charles Goyard - charles.goyard (at) orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31 Orange Business Services - online multimedia // ingénierie

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Disk Graphs are not showed
by camorae＠googlemail.com 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

Hallo guys, unfortunately on one of my servers the Disk-Graphs are not showed. /dev/instimg_lv 5242880 5241424 1% 4 1% /usr/sys/inst.images /dev/halog_lv 2097152 2093328 1% 12 1% /var/hacmp/log /dev/rootlv 524288 517520 2% 142 1% /root /dev/fslv03 20971520 20949080 1% 334 1% /tmp/test /dev/fslv01 524288 484744 8% 452 1% /home /dev/hd9var 2097152 1102960 48% 664 1% /var /dev/hd3 5242880 3901384 26% 1198 1% /tmp /dev/hd4 524288 240664 55% 3647 12% / /dev/hd10opt 524288 212944 60% 5310 18% /opt test00035:/vol/test1_nfs03/s0_nfs/s0-server-i1_data 209715200 151625576 28% 15319 1% /s0/data /dev/fslv00 4718592 1708704 64% 16116 8% /s0/tools /dev/hd2 7340032 1610464 79% 64820 26% /usr /dev/fslv02 103415808 13984072 87% 493010 20% /s0 In the graphs I only get one line (not correctly showed)... Do you guys have an idea why is it happening? Maybe because of this filesystem: test00035:/vol/test1_nfs03/s0_nfs/s0-server-i1_data 209715200 151625576 28% 15319 1% /s0/data the path where its mounted is too big... is it a problem? Thanks

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