October 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Remove the File Test column
by willowbrookmagic＠hotmail.com 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

So I have no data coming in on the files column and I would like to remove it from the display. While searching I found this: I don't want to display column foo in my display. How do I do that ? A. Add the entry NOCOLUMNS:foo,bar to hide column foo and bar. so my command would be NOCOLUMNS:files Is this correct and which file do I add it to?

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Devmon if_stat alarm consistency
by chrisw＠supranet.net 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Posting some inconsistencies I discovered today with Devmon templates, specificly the if_stat check with only appears in Cisco templates. I was troubleshooting why various routers I have showed if_stat down for various serial interfaces but nothing was alerted in xymon. Eventually I noticed that it only is happening on 2811 and 3640 routers. I checked the templates and the file 'if_stat/exceptions' lists: ifName : alarm : Gi.+ Almost all other templates list this, or no alarm line: ifName : alarm : .+ This is a request to get consistency across the board and to set them all to alarm on everything per above. It's pretty funny that it's in the 3640 since it doesn't even support Gig interfaces that I'm aware of. Here's the templates with the issue: cisco-2811 cisco-3640 cisco-4500 cisco-5500 cisco-6506 (commented out, 6509 template not affected) cisco-msfc2 And a link to browse the file on the 3640 as an example: http://devmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/devmon/trunk/templates/cisco-3640/… Thanks! Chris

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Data flooding from x.x.x.x
by iain＠shihad.org 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Good afternoon xymoners. Is there a large risk in increasing the MAX_HOBBIT_INBUFSZ to above 10MB to try to avoid these error messages? Latest errormessages: Data flooding from X.X.X.X, closing connection These are windows boxes and most likely there is something wrong with the client but we are seeing this very consistently. Regards Iain Conochie NetBenefit

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CheckPoint SPAT R65
by dave＠dgaraway.com 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

Does anyone have a client compiled for R65 that they can provide me? I'm trying to monitor my smartcneter server and 2 end points. Thanks, Dave

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Qt-Maemo5 xymon desktop widget for Nokia N900
by darrik＠darmasoft.com 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, all. I wrote a desktop widget for the Nokia N900 that polls xymon server status on a configured interval and reports the status via color icon and notifications. The source and installation instructions (via debian repository) are here: http://github.com/darrikmazey/xymon-widget Hope someone finds it useful. Feedback and criticism are always welcome. :) Cheers, Darrik - -- Darrik Mazey DarmaSoft, LLC. 1627 Marigold Avenue Akron, Ohio 44301-2627 tele: 234.738.2025 darrik at darmasoft.com http://www.darmasoft.com/ To obtain my public key, send an email to darrik at publickey.darmasoft.com. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkyrU1oACgkQUplPW50tLfGykQCeNUlYpiT1e/k7F+keBnw28VCW wjIAoII8FVzzVojMMU7qKDlciHmmP6qj =lYrb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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OK to drop IE6 support in 4.3.0 ?
by henrik＠hswn.dk 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

I'm having some issues that I'd like a wider input on. So although there are probably far too many opinions, I am asking this in a wider audience than just the Xymon developer group. The current menu-system in Xymon is not quite "Open Source" enough for some - the licensing has always been a bit unclear (see the README file in the ~xymon/server/www/menu/ if you doubt that). Therefore it would be nice to replace it with something else, and the Debian people have provided a replacement based on CSS and plain HTML 4. This did break a couple of other things, but I think we have that sorted out by now. The only remaining issue is: It doesn't work in Internet Explorer 6. IE 7, IE 8, Firefox, Konqueror all look fine. Since IE 7 is ok and this is available for Windows XP, I am mostly inclined to ignore the problems with IE6. It will be possible to install the old menu system on top of the new Xymon release, but it would be an extra download and some manual work to do. But possible, if you must live with IE 6. So - would it be OK to do this, and require IE7 as a minimum? Regards, Henrik

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Please fix the xymon digest settings
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Thanks. Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:16 PM, <xymon-digest-help at xymon.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Henrik "Størner" <henrik at hswn.dk> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:16:38 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [xymon] Please fix the xymon digest settings > In <AANLkTi=8Lf2ZwLw7VoDJwGE3_RmUUg1qkh8eeAFoDKEF at mail.gmail.com> Robert Herron <robert.herron at gmail.com> writes: > > >Would someone change the list server's digest setting to be less chatty? > >The listserver sent out 23 digest messages between 6:27 UTC and 13:43 UTC. > >22 of which contained only one message. > > Sorry about that. I think I have found out what was happening: There was > a threshold set so it would mail a digest message if more than 64 kB > worth of message text had accumulated. With the proliferation of HTML emails, > this would trigger much too soon. > > At least, I hope that was the reason why it was spewing those digests ... > > I've changed this now, so it should only send digests if a) it's been more > than 24 hours since the last digest message, or b) for every 30 messages. > > > Regards, > Henrik

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Please fix the xymon digest settings
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Would someone change the list server's digest setting to be less chatty? The listserver sent out 23 digest messages between 6:27 UTC and 13:43 UTC. 22 of which contained only one message. Based on the digest message subject, there were sent at: 6:27:14, 6:55:11, 7:30:45, 8:54:02, 9:27:05, 9:56:49, 10:42:43, 11:26:01, 11:53:10, 12:10:03, 12:17:26, 12:21:57, 12:48:43, 13:00:06, 13:02:01, 13:04:57, 13:10:27, 13:10:53, 13:22:18, 13:27:51, 13:32:00, 13:38:45, and 13:43:18. It seems silly to 10 single message digest sent within 43 minutes. Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com

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help with Linux client
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hope someone can point me in the right direction. I have linux client running, however nothing is showing up on the xymon server. I can ping either server from the other. I can telnet on port 1984 to the xymon server from the client. The only thing on the xymon server is the conn test which is showing green. On the client, there is a msg.server.txt file in tmp which contains all the data. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Xymon 4.2.3 Server = Solaris 10 Client = Linux ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email _____________________________________________________________________

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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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