September 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

[hobbit] Graphing with broken numbers
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

----- "thorsten erdmann" <thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com> wrote: > Hi > > I try to get some temperature graphs of my UPS. The UPS test produces > broken numbers like this: What do you mean by "broken"? Do you mean non-integers? > > Temperature status: > > Warning level: 35 C > Alarm level : 40 C > > Device Temp(C) Temp(F) > ------------------------------------------- > Ambient 20.7 69 > > > Devmon version 0.3.1-beta1 running on s068a300 > > > I manged to get the numbers into a graph if I alter the output to not > showing 20.7, instead showing 21. > The graph show up several lines like > > Ambient_______20. > Ambient_______21. I am not sure what you are trying to depict here, are you meaning that the DS names are Ambient______20 ? The output of 'rrdtool info /path/to/temp.rrd |grep ^ds' or similar may help to illustrate more accurately. Which collector are you using? Regards, Buchan

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Load threasholds when bbwin in 'central' mode
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I decided to try out 4.3 beta 2 along with the central mode for 'bbwin' clients. Unfortunately when doing this I discovered many of the windows boxes were alerting red because the load was higher than my defaults of 4 and 8... Now I've upped these to 95 and 100 to represent the percentage the windows boxes are using but this means the unix boxes could be broken and I wont know without setting individual alert thresholds. Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly. Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type. Regards, Craig Whilding

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[hobbit] Graphs stop update 24 hours after client reboot; start again 24 hours later.
by patrik＠jalbum.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Returning to this old thread as I ran into this issue today. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:23:17 +0000 (UTC), Henrik wrote: >"Brand, Thomas R." <TRBrand (at) cvs.com> writes: >>I need some help/suggestions to figure out why my "cpu load" and "users >>& processes" graphs stop updating about 24 hours after the systems >>reboot. The updates stop for anywhere from 12 to 24 hours, then simply >>start back up again. >>Only the "CPU load" and the "Users and Processes" graphs are having the >>problem; disk, memory, cpu utilization, network traffic don't miss a >>beat. >The only explanation I can come up with is that the format of >some of the "cpu" status message is different for the first 24 hours >after a reboot. >Could you send me an example of the cpu status shortly after a reboot, >and one when the graphs are working ? >What OS are these boxes ? Running openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64). Client output that does not update the rrd: [top] top - 14:39:44 up 1 day, 4:40, 3 users, load average: 2.42, 2.88, 2.89 Client output that does update the rrd: [top] top - 14:42:51 up 40 days, 2:41, 3 users, load average: 4.19, 3.61, 3.10 The only difference I can see is "day" instead of "days". Regards, Patrik

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Real network service tests
by brian.daly＠criticalpath.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

The Man page for hobbit states that : When checking websites, it is possible to not only check that the webserver is responding, but also that the response looks correct by matching the response against a pre-defined pattern or a checksum Can anybody tell me how to configure this? I want to run a http test on a webserver. If the webserver does not return the response I am expecting then alert me that something has changed on the server. regards Brian

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client data processed only every 5 minutes
by pnkumaresh＠gmail.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hi Guru's, I am monitoring windows server using bbwin. I can see the client data coming in every minute but hobbit server processes it only every 5 minutes ? is there a setting in hobbit server to change ? ************************************ Best Regards Kumaresh

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"Pages Hosted Locally"
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Is there an easy way to change the phrases at the top of the main screens "Pages Hosted Locally" and "Subpages Hosted Locally" I would like to add the word "TEST" or "PROD" to the beginning to show they are on the Testing or Production system. Is there a way without having to re-compile the system? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D

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Problem with Hobbit URL
by jtorwesten＠csc.com 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hello, I´ve installed Hobbit on Debian Linux Kernel 2.2.26 with Apache2 web server like described under http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/install.html. Now I have a problem with the last step: http://your.server/hobbit/ Here I will not get the Hobbit start page. What I see is: Does anyone have an idea what´s wrong with my installation/configuration? Thank you! Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Jens Torwesten CSC Käfertalerstr. 258 68309 Mannheim Germany Phone: +49.621.7001.0522 E-Mail: jtorwesten at csc.com Internet: http://www.de.csc.com CSC • This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose • CSC Deutschland Services GmbH • Registered Office: Abraham-Lincoln-Park 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany • Board of Directors: Gerhard Fercho (Chairman),Thomas Nebe, Peter Schmidt • Registered in Germany: HRB 7574, Wiesbaden

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Bertrand ORCIBAL/EXT/TLSE/GPA/CHEM/Corp est absent(e).
by bertrand.orcibal＠gpn.fr 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

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hobbitd_channel uses 99% cpu
by wendell＠enflight.com 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hi, I'm running xymon-4.3.0-beta1 on a CentOS 5.3 system. For quite a while xymon has been running smoothly. However, lately hobbitd_channel has been using 99% of the cpu. Sometimes there are two hobbitd_channels running, each using 49% of the cpu. Is there an ipc channel or shared memory that is somehow stuck or corrupted? ipcs shows nothing when xymon is stopped, and shows 9 memory segments an 9 semaphore arrays when xymon is running. What is going on? Did I mis-configure something? Is there a way to watch it or debug the problem? Thanks, Wendell

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bbcmd fails
by william.wagner＠ipacc.com 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

How can I get bbcmd to work? I am doing this as hobbit user on a Solaris xymon 4.2.3 server: bbcmd <default port> --channel=<some client> cat the result: 2009-09-29 13:51:47 Using default environment file <path>/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 2009-09-29 13:51:47 execvp() failed: No such file or directory thanks

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