September 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Alternate view for Management
by hballinger＠heritage-healthcare.com 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Our support staff likes having our monitoring system setup & organized by logical category/type. However, management is more interested in a view that is organized by business impact. For example: IT Top Level View- Hosted Services Corporate Connectivity Corporate Servers Corporate Desktops Remote Laptops Facility Connectivity Facility Desktops Management Top Level View- Email (Subpage containing all dependent hosts/services) HRMS (same as above) Sales CRM i.e. a listing for each "service" provided - possibly even maintained below subpages for each business unit Management wants availability and impact by the specific service and business unit impacted (10,000 foot view showing all dependencies), while IT is interested in the detail of the cogs/gears that make it all work. Do I just create a second listing for all of the hosts on a separate page structure? Would this generate twice as many network tests for the hosts that are listed duplicate times? Any suggestions? Thanks!

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bbcombotest Links
by me2unix＠gmail.com 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hi, Could not find anyone answering this request yet.. Here's a fix to add links to the bbcomtest reports page : Just change line 455 of hobbitd/bbcombotest.c >From : sprintf(msgline, "&%s %s\n", colorname(vwalk->color), vwalk->symbol); To: sprintf(msgline, "<a href=\"/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=%s&SERVICE=%s\">&%s</a> %s\n", gethname(vwalk->symbol), gettname(vwalk->symbol) , colorname(vwalk->color), vwalk->symbol); recompile and have links on the color dots of the tested items within combotests. --Hezki ** - *To*: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk> - *Subject*: bbcombotest Links - *From*: "Aiello, Steve $GE, Corporate, consultant$" <steve.aiello(at) ge.com> - *Date*: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:43:21 -0500 - *Thread-index*: AcdbTzrE4X3/UsIMTSiBvQJbJOnunQ== - *Thread-topic*: bbcombotest Links ------------------------------ Hi all, I thought I saw this question asked before, but did see it in the mailling list. When using bbcombotests, is it possible to have the combotest report with hyperlinks to the actual tests ? If I see one of the statuses are red or yellow, my nature instict is to wonder why, and be able to drill down for details. thanks, Steve

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bb-services: regexes in expect string?
by AaronZink＠eharmony.com 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

I have this defined in bb-services: [smtp-transaction] send "helo hobbit.domain.com\r\nmail from: <test at domain.com>\r\nrcpt to: <test at anotherdomain.com>\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220-mx01.domain.com ESMTP\r\n220 ESMTP READY\r\n250 mx01.domain.com\r\n250 sender <test at domain.com> ok\r\n" port 25 and a host that uses it in bb-hosts. This works great, except that it's tied to the host mx01.domain.com in the expect string. Is it possible to use regexes in the expect string, such as expect "220-mx0[0|1].domain.com"? So far my attempts have been unsuccessful and the man pages don't seem to indicate if this is possible. Aaron Zink Manager, Corporate IT eHarmony.com 626.795.4814

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[hobbit] xynagios for RHEL ?
by bb4＠richter-it.net 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Hi Martin, I just took a quick peek into the file and it is a perl script that says in the description: <xynagios> runs a Nagios check, and reports its output in a way compatible with the Xymon (Hobbit, BB) monitoring system. The Xymon test name is taken from the plugin output if it starts with test_name <OK|WARNING|CRITICAL|ERROR|UNKNOWN>. Otherwise, the basename of the plugin filename is used. A check prefix is removed for brevity. So it seems you can run Nagios tests in XYmon with this script. And since this is a perl script you might only need some additional modules that can be found in the Debian package libsysadm-install-perl and maybe there is a similar package for Red Hat too. HTH Torsten Hi ! Can somebody give me an hint or description, how the pluggin xynagios is to use ? Helper software: * xynagios: adaptor for running Nagios plugins with Xymon I've found it in the debian-packes http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/hobbit-plugins And is there a version for RHEL or is that equal ? Thanks & Cheers martin To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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ipv6 support
by vadud3＠gmail.com 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Does hobbit support ipv6 addressing? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Clientupdate problems
by rdeal＠jcvi.org 11 May '10

11 May '10

Does anyone have clientupdate working reliably for a large number of machines? I noticed a problem with clientupdate failing on our 4.2.0 server and tracked it down that once a few clients seem to request the update the server stops sending the file. The clients however happily update the clientversion.cfg and thus never attempt to get the file again. After upgrading to 4.2.3, the problem is the same. Anyone else see this? I have read some of the back forum messages and it sounds line several others have run up against this same problem but there doesn't seem to be a solution. Butch

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HP PA-RISC Hardware monitoring ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Anyone know is there a module (bb or hb) to monitor HP hardware ? May be better question is what is the similar command for ipmitool or prtdiage in HP-UX ? T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Capture your memories in an online journal! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us

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[hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Thanks Martin, Is there a way using the same method to cause the alert to activate. For example, I want a host to activate on disk% has reached 98%, and go ahead and send a test page to my cell phone so I can check the format. Thanks again....James -----Original Message----- From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming at desy.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:37 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems > also sending out a test alert /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --debug --test hostip test cheers, martin On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, James Wade wrote: > Thanks, I'll test out the SMS Format. > > Can someone give me some pointers on checking the configuration > file and also sending out a test alert. I've looked through the > man page and tried a few things, but it didn't seem to work. > > Thanks...James > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob McBroom [mailto:mailinglist0 at skurfer.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:57 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems > > On 2009-Apr-14, at 10:00 AM, James Wade wrote: > >> Also, We received Cell Phones in place of the pagers, and >> now when I send messages to the cell phones, the cell phone >> doesn't display it properly. It's to much data for the cell phones >> they gave us. They are Nokia 6085's. When I get a text it >> says 1 of 10..or .. missing text.. I'm guessing I'm going >> to have to filter all my Hobbit alerts now. > > There is a FORMAT option for alerts. In particular, you probably want > "FORMAT=SMS". See the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page and the example in > the alerts file itself. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > Gruss Martin Flemming ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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bb-snapshot - apache error 500...
by Mathias.Carlsson＠systeam.se 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hi! I've got a problem with apache2 giving me a 500 error when I try to run a snapshot report... I'm running on a Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit platform and XYmon 4.3.0 svn rev. 6177... The errorl in the web-browser is: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster at localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. ________________________________ Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch Server at 192.9.210.146 Port 80 And the error.log says: [Mon Jun 22 11:37:00 2009] [error] [client 192.9.210.83] Premature end of script headers: bb-snapshot.sh, referer: http://192.168.210.146/xymon-cgi/bb-snapshot.sh Are there anybody who knows how to fix this?? ________________________________ Mathias Carlsson VMware | Storage | Networking | Security www.systeam.se<https://outlook.systeam.se/OWA/redir.aspx?C=86f815296451461cb0ec17a8f0b8266…> SYSteam Anderstorp * Stötabogatan 1* SE-334 24 Anderstorp T: +46 (0)371 - 58 85 29 * F: +46 (0)371 - 169 67 ________________________________ Detta meddelande innehåller information som kan vara av sekretesskaraktär eller på annat sätt hemlig och ägs av SYSteam Datakonsult i Anderstorp AB. Meddelandet är endast avsedd för personen till vilken den är adresserad. Om du inte är den avsedda mottagaren, har du ej tillåtelse att läsa, skriva, spara, kopiera, distribuera eller använda meddelandet eller del av meddelandet. Om du mottar meddelandet av misstag, var vänlig och meddela avsändaren omgående samt ta bort meddelandet och alla kopior av detsamma.

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[hobbit] hobbit monitoring summary report
by bb4＠richter-it.net 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Hello, well you could do a ALLCLIENTS=`$HOBBITSERVERHOME/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard"|awk -F\| '{print $1}'|sort -u|wc -l` to get all clients that actually report to your server. As second step do a INSTCLIENTS=`$HOBBITSERVERHOME/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=cpu"|awk -F\| '{print $1}'|sort -u|wc -l` to get all clients that have client installed monitoring. I assume if a client is installed then it also reports a cpu status. Finally do CLIENTLESS=$((ALLCLIENTS-INSTCLIENTS)). However, clients polled via SNMP are also show the cpu status but have no client installed. But I hope to have helped you a bit. Cheers Torsten Hi, Is there better way of reporting this? Purpose: to report how many active client and client-less monitoring are done by hobbit. My method: 1. for client installed monitoring, count the number of /home/hobbit/data/rrd/*/vmstat.rrd that are recent (ie. newer than a date file created earlier, say 5am) 2. for client-less monitoring, count the number of latest /home/hobbit/data/histlogs/*/conn/ or /home/hobbit/data/histlogs/*/http/ (if both exist, then count only one) that are recent (see def. above). (some clients may not be pingable; multiple web pages on the same server should be counted only once). Thanks, Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free!

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