August 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

CPU Load on AIX
by Cedric.Lang＠orlandohealth.com 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

I have setup the Hobbit client on an AIX box running o/s level 6.2 and everything is working except the CPU test. Even with a load on the server, no load is reporting to Hobbit. Thus, no graphing is taken place. The server has been up for 41 days, but still not registering anything under cpu load. It shows the days up, number of users, number or procs, but load remains at 0.00 Has anyone ever seen this problem? I haven't been able to find any other post that was remotely similar to my issue. The only thing different about this particular AIX server than others is the O/S level. Not sure if that's part of the issue but it's the only anomaly in the whole equation. Please, if you have any advice or suggestions, I'm open. Cedric ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health.

2 1

how to get immidiate display status change on reboot of a server in xymon
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

hello, on server reboot xymon dont give any status cahnge as it is a quick reboot.How to know this reboot status? -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

3 2

ping times difference
by thomas＠bergauer.org 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi! I am using Xymon 4.3.0 beta2 and observing an phenomenon which is not clear to me: If I ping a host on the machine the hobbit server is running on, I get ping times of 9ms (constantly). When I watch the hobbit conn page of this host, it reports 60ms response time (this value us also shown in the rrd graph) -- but the ping is done from the same host than the manual one. Could somebody explain me where the different ping times come from? Thomas

5 5

Monitoring Netware -
by stella＠rider.edu 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, I downloaded the Netware Client at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/contrib/netware based on a msg from January. I'd rather avoid having to load the MRTG NLM as there are reports of the NLM failing. We are running netware 6 SP3. So far so good, and the script is collecting data (this is running on the hobbit server) but the data is not being processed. The scripts run and a msg.my.host.name.tmp is created. The contents look like: client my,host,name.netware_snmp netware_snmp [nlm] ... [df] ... But I'm getting on clientdata.log the following: 2009-08-05 17:28:31 No client backend for OS 'netware_snmp' sent by xx.xx.xx.xx Also, in hobbitlaunch, I had to add env and needs hobbitd or else I would get the following: 2009-08-05 17:33:27 Could not connect to bbd at xx.xx.xx.xx:1984 - Connection refused 2009-08-05 17:33:27 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-08-05 17:33:27 Cannot fetch Hobbit status, ignoring --no-down My hobbitlaunch section looks like: [netwareclient] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/netwareclient.log CMD $BBHOME/ext/hobbitclient-netware.sh INTERVAL 5m Any clues? TIA...

1 0

[hobbit] Monitoring "internet"
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

>You can use the bbcombotest to merge the result of all your http content/status check in a single check. >in bbcombotest.cfg you can put something like: > >internet.connect = internet.cont1 && internet.cont2 && internet.cont3 > >remember to change the hobbitlaunch.cfg to include the launch of bbcombotest Yes, you need to use bbcombotest. I would not recommend this though: internet.connect = internet.cont && internet2.cont && internet3.cont Something like this is safer... internet.connect = (internet1.cont + internet2.cont + internet3.cont) >= 2 I have used this method before to monitor major 4 web sites and seen one of them fail to respond. The other 3 were fine so I knew our internet connection was okay. Craig

1 0

Monitoring "internet"
by stella＠rider.edu 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, We have a request to monitor 'internet' connectivity. (When it comes from higherups...) Just pinging up the line might not be good enough as we've had issues with our providers in the recent past. So I figured ping several well known hosts out in the cloud and if all are out, then we have no 'internet'. I came out with the following. Seems to work, but figure I run it thru the list in case someone else has done this already... page internet Internet Connectivity 127.0.0.1 INTERNET # conn=ip1,ip2,ip3,ip4,ip5 TIA...

6 7

DNS not ok using xymon but ok using BB
by william.wagner＠ipacc.com 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

I have recently installed xymon 4.2.3 on a solaris 10 platform. I also have BB running on another solaris 10 server. The BB server has been running for years. My issue: I am monitoring seven DNS servers. BB reports all seven as DNS OK. However xymon reports five servers as 'not ok'. I am unable to determine why the DNS test fails on these servers. I have tested by changing hobbitlaunch.cfg to use: CMD bbtest-net --no-ares --debug --report --ping --checkresponse I did not see any useful information from the log: 2009-08-04 15:33:30 Adding to combo msg: status <server>.dns red  Tue Aug 4 15:33:07 2009 dns NOT ok status <server>.dns red  Tue Aug 4 15:33:07 2009 dns NOT ok Any ideas? thanks, Bill Wagner

4 5

Loris Serena is out of the office.
by loris.serena＠pncgis.ie 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

I will be out of the office starting 05/08/2009 and will not return until 15/08/2009. Please contact itsupport at pncgis.ie with any queries.

1 0

conn test stuck on red
by leon＠one.co.il 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hi, I'm using version 4.3.0-beta2 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 server. I've experienced some ISP networking problems this morning, which made Xymon mark all the connections red. After a few minutes the network went back to normal, but the red "lights" stayed on. It was only the conn test, all the other including telnets to port 80 were green. I tried restarts and such - nothing helped. The only thing that did help was "apt-get dpkg-reconfigure". The one thing that I did notice is that it always tried to ping an OpenDNS server, as this is the one I have in resolv.conf. What I wanted to ask is if there are any ways to remove some cache or temp files instead of doing dpkg-reconfigure as it's a bit of an ugly solution, although absolutely clean and fast - took me 5 seconds without loosing any data. Thanks, Lenny. P.S. btw, I still have a problem with ms-sql and ftp ports always red, no matter what I do. Any advice on that?

2 2

bb-hosts,number o0f columns error
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hello, I have 3 pages on the main page.Inside each page,i have subpages arranged in fallowing fashion: bb-hosts file: title Main Grid page rack001 Nodegroup title Nodegroup1 subpage rack900 Row1-Rack6 conn group-only conn 172.29.1.49 mn49.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.50 mn50.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.51 mn51.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.52 mn52.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.53 mn53.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.1.54 mn54.mgmt.grid.ggo # subpage rack901 cpu group-only cpu 0.0.0.0 mn49.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn50.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn51.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn52.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn53.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn54.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn . . . . subpage rack909 group-only automount 0.0.0.0 mn49.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn50.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn51.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn52.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn53.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn54.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn page rack002 Gridgroup title Gridgroup1 subpage rack521 Row5-Rack2 conn group-only conn 172.29.2.9 mn263.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.10 mn264.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.11 mn265.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.12 mn266.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.13 mn267.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.14 mn268.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.15 mn269.mgmt.grid.ggo # 172.29.2.16 mn270.mgmt.grid.ggo # subpage rack1299 cpu group-only cpu 0.0.0.0 mn263.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn264.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn265.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn266.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn267.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn268.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn269.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn270.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn . . . subpage rack12109 raid group-only raid 0.0.0.0 mn263.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn264.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn265.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn266.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn267.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn268.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn269.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn 0.0.0.0 mn270.mgmt.grid.ggo # noconn and so on like this ... ------------------------------------- my page 1 has 9 columns total for all tests(total 9 tests) whereas page 2 has 10 columns total for all tests(total 10 tests).Now number of columns to be displayed is given in BBGENOPTS="--recentgifs --subpagecolumns=9" in "hobbitserver.cfg" in hobbit server etc directory.But if two or more pages have different number of columns ;then how and where it should be specified so that i will have 10 columns on page 2 and 9 columns on page 1. "--subpagecolumns" takes only one number as arguments.how to do this? -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

4 6