September 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Migration from Hobbit 4.2.0 to Xymon 4.3.0 beta 2
by geoff.hallford＠gmail.com 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Hi Everyone, I have searched the wiki and the previous threads in the mailing list but haven't found what I am looking for. I need to know if there is a way to: - Migrate the configuration and the data from a Hobbit 4.2.0 server to a new Xymon server Since I want to upgrade the OS underneath from OpenSUSE 10.0 to OpenSUSE 11.1, and also the Hobbit/Xymon version, it is a little more complicated that an in place "make && make install". Thank you to anyone who can give suggestions. I can test out any suggestions. Geoff Hallford

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Modifying the "info" page
by captkras＠gmail.com 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Has anyone had any luck (and how do I) modify the info page that is generated. What we would like to do is capture the DRAC IP interface information on this. Any thoughts? -- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

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Massive spike in percentile memory graph
by skjoldar＠gmail.com 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Hi I've got a host that has apparently sent false info to the hobbit server, and the result is that the monthly graph shows a flatline with a "80M %" memory use. I don't want to delete the whole rrd file, is there any way to truncate this graph to only show below 101% usage? I'm using hobbit 4.2.0 on a Centos 5 linux server, and the same version hobbit client on a solaris 9 client Thanks Stefan

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what other color can be given to cpu for rebooting of client than yellow for distinguishing ?
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

hello, what other color can be given to cpu for rebooting of client than yellow for distinguishing ?bcoz warning is also yellow and reboot also.how to distinguish them? -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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Devmon / MRTG
by mv652＠softhome.net 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi, Could I get a quick-and-dirty explanation regarding the Devmon implementation in Xymon 4.3.x? The way I understand it, Devmon provides SNMP capabilities to Xymon so the monitoring server can poll SNMP capable devices. How is this different to Integrating MRTF data into XYMON, for example? If I am interesting in getting bandwidth for various device interfaces, I am assuming it is best to do via Devmon rather than integrate MRTG? Lastly, is there a readme / howto that explains devmon-xymon setup? Thanks, Mario

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disk partition not shown / global graphs problem
by doctor＠makelofine.org 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi, I'm running xymon client on a debian linux. Some partitions are not graphed, but i've a dead link instead of additional graph. the test did correctly report all partitions, the only problem is the graph. I deleted the disk*rrd files in ~xymon/data/rrd/my_host/ the rrd file are created again, but my partition is still not on graph. I've same issue with other graphs, some are feeded by my own script, and almost every plugin I use are not correctly reported in graph (some values are in graph, others aren't). Tks for any help

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DNS Test - BB-Hosts
by MFisher＠hra.com 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi All! I am trying to perform DNS record lookups via the bb-hosts dns directive. My directive is as follows: 0.0.0.0 dnsserver.domain.com # dns=a:www.google.com if have also tried 0.0.0.0 dnsserver.domain.com # dns=www.google.com The result does not show the record lookups but only shows that the DNS service is OK (up) Can anybody shed some light as to why this is not performing the nslookups? THANKS!

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recovery messages
by lebarber＠gmail.com 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

I've noticed that if I have a situation where I have red alert that turns yellow before finally returning to green that no recovery messages are being sent. Alert notifications are only being sent on reds, not yellow. I suspect that when the red turns to a yellow that Hobbit is "forgetting" that it sent out the notification when it turned red since it is not sending them out on yellows. Does anybody out there know how to fix this? Thanks, Larry Barber

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Graphs not woring
by lars＠baad-jensen.dk 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi I have just installed hobbit on a new server. I have some problems with the trends/graphs. When i try to zoom, the graps is just blue. I can zoom, and the only way to see the graph, is if i right click on the buttom of the graph, and click on "show image". I'm running hobbit 4.2.0 and rrdtool 1.0.49 Hope you can help me. /Lars __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4394 (20090904) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com

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Solaris vxfs filesystem monitor.
by bcatlin＠gmail.com 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

With Xyxmon - I am not using a specific monitor for the veritas file systems on my server. The default script does not let them be seen in the display I edited the $BB_HOME/bin/hobbitclient-sunos.sh script to fix this. I would like to recommend this to be included in future builds - Its a simple change: Ine 25: FSTYPES=`/bin/df -n -l|awk '{print $3}'|egrep -v ^proc|^fd|^mntfs|^ctfs|^devfs|^objfs|^nfs"|sort|uniq` Change to: FSTYPES=`/bin/df -n -l|awk -F: '{print $2}'|egrep -v ^proc|^fd|^mntfs|^ctfs|^devfs|^objfs|^nfs"|sort|uniq` This allows the display of the vxfs filesystems. The issue is the way they output under the default. Most have a space in front of the colon, but veritas does not - its colon abuts the first field. By splitting on the colon, yo get what is intended. This may apply under other OS's, but I don't have ay with veritas outside of the solaris one. lurch at inorbit.com

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