January 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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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Route/Netstat Crashing and/or Ipconfig Not Working = Purple results
by fjb047＠motorola.com 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Folks, we have three dell power edge 2950s that are running a Win2k3 OS as well as the Citrix Xenapp (version 5.0). What we see is that Hobbit will report the basic test purple (CPU, Disk, Mem, ect) after some time has pasted. When we logon to the systems we usually see a crash message saying that either route.exe or netstat has crashed. Checking the task manger on these boxes shows we can have a mix of netstat and route.exe still running (some times its just one, other there are 2 or more instances, or just one of them running, ect). Looking at the event viewer we will usually see: The agent stats generated this event message : failed to execute ipconfig /all But no other error indications on those boxes. And of course when we run this ipconfig command it works all the time for us. The simple fix is to kill any an all netstat.exe, route.exe and cmd windows they tried to run and then the servers go back to green. Problem is they will only last for some time until they go purple. And the time it takes is random. Finally we have 6 other Citrix servers all configured in the same manor that do NOT exhibit this behavior. So any ideas on how to find out why netstat/route keep crashing? Thanks! Jb

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Building the client on Mac OS X 10.6
by mailinglist0＠skurfer.com 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Has anyone managed to get the client built under Snow Leopard? What I’m doing seems pretty straightforward, but the build fails. I run `./configure --client`, answer the questions, then `make` and it bombs. MAKE="make" CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDarwin -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" `pwd`/build/genconfig.sh Checking for socklen_t Checking for snprintf Checking for vsnprintf Checking for rpc/rpcent.h Checking for sys/select.h Checking for u_int32_t typedef Checking for PATH_MAX definition Checking for SHUT_RD/WR/RDWR definitions config.h created CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDarwin -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DDarwin" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="" LIBRTDEF="" BBTOPDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/xymon-client/4.2.3" BBLOGDIR="" BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="172.27.64.14" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no" make -C lib client gcc -g -O -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DBIND_8_COMPAT=1 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DDarwin -I. -I/usr/local/src/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -o test-endianness test-endianness.c In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:61, from test-endianness.c:17: ./Availability.h:18: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘time_t’ ./Availability.h:32: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘time_t’ ./Availability.h:43: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘duration’ ./Availability.h:45: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘time_t’ ./Availability.h:45: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘time_t’ ./Availability.h:49: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘time_t’ ./Availability.h:49: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘time_t’ In file included from test-endianness.c:17: /usr/include/stdlib.h:289: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘__OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DEPRECATED’ make[1]: *** [test-endianness] Error 1 make: *** [lib-client] Error 2 Thanks for any help you can provide. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>

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[hobbit] Citrix Monitoring Anyone?
by fredbo＠club-internet.fr 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Hi, Did you try deadcat 's script bb-citrix.pl ? As you I could be very interested if someone had already done a citrix script. Regards, Fred. Greetings All! I am designing my Xymon setup, and in reading some of the material I've discovered that Xymon is capable of a limited view of Citrix, that limit being the ability to see only the number of users connected. Has anyone been able to also add the ability to see who is logged on, the date/time of their login as well? Of course, any other info too would be great to have. Thank you! .vadim To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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maint mode from command line
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠elavon.com 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hi, Is there a way to issue a command to put a list of servers into maint mode instead of having to select them from the GUI? I would like to maybe automate this with a cron job Thank kh ----------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this e-mail and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the e-mail from your computer. Elavon (formerly NOVA Information Systems)

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Alerts - HOSTS matching regular expressions.
by kii.noda＠gmail.com 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hi everyone, As you may have already been aware by now, we're here to stay. :) Here's one interesting problem (and maybe simple) for you: We've seen that "HOST=%^asd$" matches both hosts named "asd" and "asdf", not respecting the "$" at the end. Can you guys please confirm that regex matching for "HOST=" does not care about the "$" sign? For those that need some expanded case-study (all others can now stop), here's the story behind: we are managing various servers of ours and our customers. Due to the fact that we do not control DNS entries for all these machines we have come up with a naming scheme like this: --- cut here --- junkyard-starbox # clientID=junkyard, starbox=actual machine junkyard-starbox-v_trash # v_trash=vserver named trash running on starbox junkyard-starbox-v_trashcan # v_trashcan=vserver named trashcan running on starbox junkyard-starbox-x_dustbin # x_dustbin=xen server running on starbox --- and here --- We need to send these "special" alerts: * ONLY cto at junkyard.tld for events on junkyard-starbox-v_trash * ONLY ceo at junkyard.tld for events on junkyard-starbox-x_dustbin Also, we need to send these alerts for all other hosts & events: * stars at sysadmins.tld for purple, yellow & red w/ REPEAT=60 * cto at sysadmins.tld for red w/ DURATION>30 and REPEAT=60 * cto at sysadmins.tld for yellow&purple w/ DURATION>60 and REPEAT=60 Exercising our brain muscles we came up with these: --- cut here --- #alert CTO for v_trash HOST=junkyard-starbox-v_trash MAIL=cto at junkyard.tld #alert CEO for x_dustbin HOST=junkyard-starbox-x_dustbin MAIL=ceo at junkyard.tld #stop alerting for the private boxes above HOST=* IGNORE HOST=%^junkyard-starbox-(v_trash|x_dustbin)$ HOST=* COLOR=purple,yellow MAIL=stars at sysadmins.tld REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE MAIL=cto at sysadmins.tld DURATION>60 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE HOST=* COLOR=red MAIL=stars at sysadmins.tld REPEAT=10 RECOVERED NOTICE MAIL=cto at sysadmins.tld DURATION>30 REPEAT=60 RECOVERED NOTICE --- and here --- However, even with the "$" at the end of our regex we are no longer receiving any alerts for v_trashcan because the regex wrongly matches on the "IGNORE HOST=" line. We could use 2 lines to match each host on its own line but that's not the point of this exercise. So, can anyone confirm our finding? -- kN

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Unable to create Availablity Report spreadsheet.
by TRBrand＠cvs.com 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi all... I'm having a problem generating a 'spreadsheet' availability report (Reports | Availability Report ) with the Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 server and could use some help/suggestions as to where to look next. These reports were working as late as two weeks ago; I can't think of anything that I've changed in the environment that should affect the report generation. bbgen for Hobbit version 4.3.0-0.beta2 Statistics: Hosts : 3015 All other reports appear to be working fine. If I select the 'Generate Report' button, my report gets created and displays and the files are created in the www/rep/ directory When selecting 'Generate Spreadsheet', the result is: Generating report for the period: Jan 27 2010 - Jan 27 2010 (nongr) --bbrep-7740-126471984 Content-type: text/html Could not generate report. Check that the /home/xymon/server/www/rep/ directory has permissions '-rwxrwxr-x' (775) and that is is set to group 8 I have checked the ownership and permissions of the directory tree and all seems ok... # ls -l /home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 22 2008 /home -> /cvsrx/home/ # l -d /cvsrx lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 19 10:23 /cvsrx -> /data/cvsrx_dev/ # l -d /cvsrx/home/ drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 4096 Dec 7 11:25 /cvsrx/home// # l -d /cvsrx/home drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 4096 Dec 7 11:25 /cvsrx/home/ # l -d /cvsrx/home/xymon/ drwxr-xr-x 11 xymon hobbit 4096 Jan 8 14:36 /cvsrx/home/xymon// # l -d /cvsrx/home/xymon/server/ drwxr-xr-x 9 xymon hobbit 4096 Dec 7 11:40 /cvsrx/home/xymon/server// # l -d /cvsrx/home/xymon/server/www/ drwxr-x--- 16 xymon www 4096 Jan 28 18:12 /cvsrx/home/xymon/server/www// # l -d /cvsrx/home/xymon/server/www/rep/ drwxrwx--x 8 xymon www 4096 Jan 28 18:10 /cvsrx/home/xymon/server/www/rep// # l /cvsrx/home/xymon/server/www/rep/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 7 wwwrun www 4096 Jan 28 18:01 6916-1264719548/ drwxr-xr-x 7 wwwrun www 4096 Jan 28 18:03 7703-1264719824/ -rw-r--r-- 1 wwwrun www 2109 Jan 28 18:04 avail-s09trbrxs-memory-1264719841-7737.txt I added '--debug' to bb-rep.cgi: exec /home/xymon/server/bin/bb-rep.cgi $CGI_REP_OPTS $BBGENREPOPTS --debug >/tmp/bbrep.debug 2>&1 and got a large output file. At the very end of the file, it appears that the program simply stopped as the the output in the debug log just stops: <data ...> Host: s09996rxs, ip: 172.19.227.11, name: s09996rxs, color: 4, old: 0, anywaps: 0, wapcolor: -1, pretitle: '(NULL)', noprop-y: (NULL), noprop-r: (NULL), noprop-p: (NULL), noprop-ack: (NULL), waps Test: OfflineDB, alert 0, propagate 1, state 4, age: , oldage: 0 Test: nfs, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 Test: mysql, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 Test: cpu, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 Test: disk, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 Test: procs, alert 0, propagate 1, state 4, age: , oldage: 0 Test: ports, alert 0, propagate 1, state 4, age: , oldage: 0 Test: msgs, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 Test: files, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 Test: memory, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 Test: conn, alert 0, propagate 1, state 0, age: , oldage: 0 <EOF> Host s09996rxs is the last host listed in my bb-hosts file. Any suggestions? Thomas Brand | CVS Caremark |Rx Systems Admin|Office: 401-770-4932 |1 CVS Drive, Woonsocket, RI 02895 Mail Stop 34040C | TRBrand at cvs.com Disclaimer: 1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong, 3) my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or your money cheerfully refunded. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy all copies of this communication and any attachments.

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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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Need help. Hobbit installed, but web access fails.
by qianm＠childpsych.columbia.edu 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Dear All, I installed xymon on my redhat linux. The installation is successful, but the web access failed. Here is information: [root at pons /home]# ll | grep xymon drwxr-xr-x 8 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:44 xymon [root at pons /home]# cd xymon/ [root at pons /home/xymon]# ll total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 cgi-secure drwxr-xr-x 7 xymon root 4096 Jan 28 16:39 client drwxr-xr-x 10 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 data drwxr-xr-x 9 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 server [root at pons /home/xymon]# uname -a Linux pons 2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jan 18 05:00:00 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root at pons /etc/httpd/conf.d]# pwd /etc/httpd/conf.d [root at pons /etc/httpd/conf.d]# ls hobbit-apache.conf perl.conf php.conf python.conf README ssl.conf webalizer.conf welcome.conf [root at pons /etc/httpd/conf.d]# # This file is for Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0.x # # Add this to your Apache configuration, it makes # the Xymon webpages and cgi-scripts available in the # "/xymon" and "/xymon-cgi" URLs. # NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have # the Xymon webfiles as the root URL. In that case, # you should instead set this: # #DocumentRoot "/home/xymon/server/www" Alias /xymon/ "/home/xymon/server/www/" <Directory "/home/xymon/server/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with "htpasswd -c /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" # # You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to members of a # group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must setup # the "hobbitgroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to require # a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more details. AuthUserFile /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitpasswd AuthGroupFile /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitgroups AuthType Basic AuthName "Xymon Administration" # "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in. Require valid-user # "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND # are members of the "admins" group in hobbitgroups. # Require group admins </Directory> And, the httpd log shows: [Fri Jan 29 15:01:20 2010] [error] [client 192.168.71.55] File does not exist: /var/www/html/xymon Thanks a lot, Best, Ming

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