July 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

AIX Power5 vmstat - rrd conversion
by Mike.Wood＠kci1.com 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi All, I read Stef Coene's excellent article on updating Hobbit / Xymon to use the pc and ec values from vmstat in a shared CPU environment on AIX. - The article also mentions converting existing vmstat.rrd files. How do I convert the rrd files to add the 2 new columns? Thanks in advance. Mike Wood UNIX System Administrator Kinetic Concepts Inc. 5751 NW Parkway San Antonio, TX, 78249 E-mail: mike.wood at kci1.com Office: (210) 255-6382 Mobile: (210) 825-5134 ***************************************************************************** "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and is likely to contain privileged, proprietary and confidential information that is exempt from disclosure requests under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at postmaster at kci1.com." Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ******************************************************************************

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SSL Certificate for LDAPS Expiring
by MFisher＠hra.com 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

SSL certificate for ldaps expires in 20 days However, the certificate in the local cert store (computer) (Domain Controller Authentication) says 1/1/2010.. Why does xymon think its expiring? Michael S. Fisher ISD | Active Directory Support mfisher at hra.com +1 310 781 5663

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Customizing Emails
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Good Morning, We use the good ol' email system from hobbit to send alerts. The emails that they receive however are in taged html format and it can be difficult for them to read. Is there a way to display just what is being alerted besides the whole page.... It just seems so tedious that they need to try to scan all the html text to find the error. Thanks again hobbit gurus.. 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] Editing thresholds from a web page.
by david.peters＠dpi.nsw.gov.au 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

I have now added a link from xymonton add-ons page to the files. I have fixed a few other little issues/bugs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Peters +61 2 63913565 +61 4 17863572 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: 22/06/2009 09:48 AM Subject: [hobbit] Editing thresholds from a web page. Anyone interested in a cgi script that allows you to edit the thresholds file (hobbit-clients.cfg) from a web page? It allows you to select a server from a list of all servers and then presents you with just the section of the file applicable to that particular server. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Peters +61 2 63913565 +61 4 17863572 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of their organisation. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of their organisation.

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How do I clone maintenance mode record ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 12 Jul '09

12 Jul '09

I am rsyncing configuration files from hobbit1( primary) to hobbit2 (standby) server. But without maintenance mode records of hobbit1 copy over, hobbit2 will generate alerts for hosts that had been put into maintenance mode already. Currently I tried to rsync "data/disabled" directory and restart hobbit2 server but the maintenace web page still show less hosts on hobbit2. Anyone know where is the maintenance records store at beside "data/disabled" ? 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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CLASS question
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 11 Jul '09

11 Jul '09

Running Hobbit 4.2.0 on a Solaris 10 host. My bb-host has 222.222.003.166 galileo.xxx.yyy.edu # \ ntp ssh \ CLASS:COMPUTESERV \ TRENDS:*,vmstat:vmstat2|vmstat3,\ netstat:netstat1|netstat2|netstat3,\ !clock,!bbgen,!bbtest,!hobbitd And my hobbit-clients.cfg has CLASS=COMPUTESERV UP 30m LOAD 12.0 16.0 DISK %^/cdrom.* IGNORE DISK * 90 95 PROC in.telnetd 0 0 PROC sendmail 0 0 PROC syslogd 1 1 The problem is the PROC does not seem to work. My PROC icons stay white. If you use HOST=hostname.xxx.yyy.edu then it works. Any ideas what is causing this? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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Xymon 4.2.2 Bad data in channel, skipping it
by tbebo＠affiniongroup.com 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Henrik, I was wondering if I could get the patch that you sent to Bryan Kennedy back in January. We are having the same issue. [msgs:/var/hobbit/server/logs/page.log] 2009-07-10 09:29:25 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2009-07-10 09:29:25 Dropping (more) garbled data I thought there was a config file that I could modify that fixed this but I must be mistaken. Thanks for your help. Tom Bebo UNIX System Administrator Affinion Group / TSO Voice: 614-652-5087 Cell: 614-203-8766 mailto:tbebo at affiniongroup.com

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[Hobbit] HTML header
by tainted.soul69＠googlemail.com 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Does [hobbit] get added to the subject line or are we supposed to start the subject line with that? On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Shaun Phillips < tainted.soul69 at googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know what script/binary produces the HTML headers? I was > trying to get sar-graphs working and did something that result in the top of > my pages now having HTML from my old BigBrother setup? > > I have been running a client using the BigBrother client to test something, > or I might have overwritten some code? > > Thanks in advance, > Shaun > > >

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hobbit-client.cfg question
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Is there a way to split the HOST= line in the hobbit-client.cfg. I tried the backslash but that did not seem to work and I did not see any information in the man page. Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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how do I find out which version of hobbit server is running on the server ?
by Kishore.Manjiani＠brevanhoward.com 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

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