November 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

canceling acknowledgements
by lebarber＠gmail.com 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Is there some way to cancel an 'ack' after it has been issued? Thanks, Larry Barber

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how integrate xymonpdf into new xymon-menue
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Hi ! I need an hint how to integrate the xymonpdf http://www.trantor.org/xymonton/doku.php/reports:xymonpdf or other entries into the new xymon-menue .. ... > * Edit '$BBHOME/server/www/menu/menu_items.js' and add two lines in > 'Reports' section like those ones (I put my scripts into $BBHOME/server/www/pdf) : > > ['Analysis PDF', '/xymon/pdf/analysis.php'], > ['Reports PDF', '/xymon/pdf/pdf.php'] didn't work ... because the menue_items.js is missing :-) i've added an entry in xymonmenu.cfg <a class="inner" href="$BBSERVERWWWURL/pdf/pdf.php">PDF Report</a> but without success :-( thanks & cheers Martin

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how to see graphs for last week/month for perticular test ?snapshot report
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

hi, i have 2 problems.. 1)i want to see last month cpu utilization graph for the perticular host,how can i see that? 2)when i want to see snapshot report for say date 2dec09 7:30am,front pages(bb-html etc) shows time stamp of 2dec09 7:0am,but when i click to see status of perticular test of perticular host,it shows me status of 29oct09 12:40pm.how to overcome it? -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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bb-roracle.ksh
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Here is my bb-roracle.ksh v2.20 that I modified to work with HP-UX's KSH88 (/bin/ksh) shell. Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 AM, <xymon-digest-help at xymon.com> wrote: > > From: Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:14:34 +0800 > Subject: Re: [xymon] bb-roracle.ksh > See attached. > I don't recall what version of ksh I was using for this one, but I do recall it worked on the Sol8 and Sol10 default ksh. > (The default version doesn't support most of the string manipulation commands, which makes me think it's the older version) > > It did require two additional config files. > One, defined the tests to perform, and the other defined your list of databases. > Then you also had to make sure your tnsnames was available. > Instead of trying to set the path, I used to symbolically link it into the ~/client/etc/ directory. > > Give it a whirl, and see how you go. > Sorry I can't be more specific, but it's been some time since I last did database monitoring. > > Regards > Vernon > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Gore, David W <david.gore at verizonbusiness.com> wrote: >> >> Has anybody ported this script to ksh93? I made some changes to get it half running but perhaps someone has done a more thorough and complete job who knows the differences between the older and newer Korn shells? >> >> >> >> ~David Gore >> >> >

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AIX df command problem
by sholmes42＠mac.com 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

I am having a problem similar to one recently posted, but this is on an AIX host and is caused (I think) by a problem in the way xymon does df on AIX. The xymon version is 4.2.3 and the AIX OS version is 3.5 (I think, I'm a Solaris Admin). Anyway, I can find no way to force the df on AIX to use POSIX formatting AND to report only local file systems. Even if I could, I don't think I can override what xymon uses for df since the comments in the hobbitclient.cfg file say that the envariable definition is only there for compatibility and it is not used. The problem is that an NFS mount file system line in the df output is being parsed wrong and the number in the usage column is being used for the percent used (Available) so that is a huge number. Not only that, again similar to the previous problem, the file system name is being picked up as the contents of the last 3 fields in the output line, i.e. it is not /mnt/tsmupdates (which is what it should be) but "3020485 50% /tsm/updates", which, of course, prevents me from effectively ignoring that file system. I've tried using DISK %.*/mnt/.* IGNORE and that doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions? We have a big red page where we shouldn't have. Thanks, Steve -- The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. -Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968) Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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IPv6 Support?
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 28 May '11

28 May '11

Has anyone looked at supporting IPv6 at this stage? IANA only has a little more than 150million addresses left that they can assign, and then the address pool is exhausted. Some are targeting March 2011 as the end date of IPv4 availability. Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +1 416.369.0111 #344 F +1 416.369.9599 Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

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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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Scheduled disable causes crash?
by johan.sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hi! During the last month, we have had some problems with Xymon when using scheduled disabled (added from the web interface). The first problem we had was on September 17th, when hobbitd crashed while/after running the scheduled disable. We got the following error in hobbit.log 2010-09-17 05:00:00 Fatal error in select: Bad file descriptor 2010-09-17 05:00:00 Setup complete After that incident, I enabled verbose logging for hobbitd, and turned up the logging for some other process as well. This morning at 06:00 we had a new scheduled disable. This time hobbitd just stopped logging after running the disable. The web interface did not work correctly. When clicking a test, an "Internal server error" message was displayed. Also, the bbgen test went purple (last update at 05:59:26). The only errors I have been able to find in the logs are in bb-display.log: 2010-10-05 06:00:26 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:01:26 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:02:27 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:12:30 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:13:35 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:14:39 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:24:40 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:25:41 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:26:42 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:36:47 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:37:48 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:39:54 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:40:54 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 2010-10-05 06:41:54 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string Xymon was restarted at 06:43. Here is the hobbit.log from the time. It was too large to paste in the mail. http://pastebin.com/JuU0BHje We are running Xymon 4.2.3 on CentOS 5. Best regards, Johan Sjöberg

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4.3.0 beta3 compile problem on solaris 10 sparc
by rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Hi, I tried replying to this thread 3 times but it just disappears, trying a new mail with the same subject. Thanx, That fixed the first problem. Now I have the ld problem as described. How do I tell the compilation to use /usr/local/bin/ld? It seems embedded in the c-ares tar.gz file I made a dirty fix by linking /usr/ccs/bin/ld to /usr/local/bin/ld. Then it compiles nicely. - Roland make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/xymongen' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/xymongen' CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="" RPATHOPT="-Wl,--rpath,/opt/csw/lib -Wl,--rpath,/usr/local/lib" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" LDAPFLAGS="" LDAPINCDIR="" LDAPLIBS="" DOSNMP="no" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" XYMONHOME="/usr/local/xymon/server" ARESVER="1.7.3" RUNTIMEDEFS="" PCREINCDIR="-I/usr/local/include" PCRELIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lpcre" LIBRTDEF="-lrt" make -C xymonnet all make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/xymonnet' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/include -I/usr/local/include -o xymonnet -Wl,--rpath,/opt/csw/lib -Wl,--rpath,/usr/local/lib xymonnet.o contest.o httptest.o httpresult.o ldaptest.o dns.o dns2.o httpcookies.o ../lib/libxymon.a libcares.a -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl -lrt /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- rpath /usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- rpath usage: ld [-6:abc:d:e:f:h:il:mo:p:rstu:z:B:CD:F:GI:L:M:N:P:Q:R:S:VY:?] file(s) [-64] enforce a 64-bit link-edit [-a] create an absolute file [-b] do not do special PIC relocations in a.out [-B direct | nodirect] establish direct bindings, or inhibit direct binding to, the object being created [-B dynamic | static] search for shared libraries|archives [-B eliminate] eliminate unqualified global symbols from the symbol table [-B group] relocate object from within group [-B local] reduce unqualified global symbols to local [-B reduce] process symbol reductions [-B symbolic] bind external references to definitions when creating shared objects [-c name] record configuration file `name' [-C] demangle C++ symbol name diagnostics [-d y | n] operate in dynamic|static mode [-D token,...] print diagnostic messages [-e epsym] use `epsym' as entry point address [-f name] specify library for which this file is an auxiliary filter [-F name] specify library for which this file is a filter [-G] create a shared object [-h name] use `name' as internal shared object identifier [-i] ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting [-I name] use `name' as path of interpreter [-l x] search for libx.so or libx.a [-L path] search for libraries in directory `path' [-m] print memory map [-M mapfile] use processing directives contained in `mapfile' [-N string] create a dynamic dependency for `string' [-o outfile] name the output file `outfile' [-p auditlib] identify audit library to accompany this object [-P auditlib] identify audit library for processing the dependencies of this object [-Q y | n] do|do not place version information in output file [-r] create a relocatable object [-R path] specify a library search path to be used at run time [-s] strip any symbol and debugging information [-S supportlib] specify a link-edit support library [-t] do not warn of multiply-defined symbols that have different sizes or alignments [-u symname] create an undefined symbol `symname' [-V] print version information [-Y P,dirlist] use `dirlist' as a default path when searching for libraries [-z absexec] when building an executable absolute symbols referenced in dynamic objects are promoted to the executable [-z allextract | defaultextract | weakextract] extract all member files, only members that resolve undefined tor tentative symbols, or allow extraction of archive members to resolvetweak references from archive files [-z altexec64] execute the 64-bit link-editor [-z combreloc] combine multiple relocation sections [-z defs] disallow undefined symbol references [-z direct | nodirect] enable|disable direct binding to shared object dependencies [-z endfiltee] marks a filtee such that it will terminate a filters search [-z finiarray=function] name of function to be appended to the .finiarray [-z groupperm | nogroupperm] enable|disable setting of group permissions on dynamic dependencies [-z help ] print this usage message [-z ignore | record] ignore|record unused dynamic dependencies [-z initarray=function] name of function to be appended to the .initarray [-z initfirst] mark object to indicate that its .init section should be executed before the .init section of any other objects [-z interpose] dynamic object is to be an `interposer' on direct bindings [-z lazyload | nolazyload] enable|disable delayed loading of shared object dependencies [-z ld32=arg1,arg2,...] define arguments applicable to the 32-bit class of ld(1) [-z ld64=arg1,arg2,...] define arguments applicable to the 64-bit class of ld(1) [-z loadfltr] mark filter as requiring immediate loading of its filtees at runtime [-z muldefs] allow multiply-defined symbols [-z nocompstrtab] disable compression of string tables [-z nodefs] allow undefined symbol references [-z nodefaultlib] mark object to ignore any default library search path [-z nodelete] mark object as non-deletable [-z nodlopen] mark object as non-dlopen()'able [-z nodump] mark object as non-dldump()'able [-z now] mark object as requiring non-lazy binding [-z nopartial] expand any partially initialized symbols [-z noversion] don't record any version sections [-z origin] mark object as requiring $ORIGIN processing [-z preinitarray=function] name of function to be appended to the .preinitarray [-z redlocsym] reduce local syms in .symtab to a minimum [-z rescan] rescan archive list until no further member extraction occurs [-z text] disallow output relocations against text [-z textoff] allow output relocations against text [-z textwarn] warn if there are relocations against text [-z verbose] generate warnings for suspicious processings collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [xymonnet] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/xymonnet' make: *** [xymonnet-build] Error 2

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iostat fix in 4.3.0
by rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi, I just wonder if the iostat will be fixed in 4.3.0? I'm interested in the Solaris one. Many others also would like to see the linux iostat. It seems that the client correctly sends the data to the server but the server doesn't take care of it. iostatdisk.rrd is not created. There is a command I forgot that actually displays this data but I can't find the command again... Something like $ xymond_hostdata --hosts=sunws1 --tests=iostatdisk (doesn't work) I find this in /usr/local/xymon/data/hostdata/sunws1/1290476142 [iostatdisk] extended device statistics device,r/s,w/s,kr/s,kw/s,wait,actv,svc_t,%w,%b, sd2,a,0.6,3.0,70.4,84.7,0.0,0.0,7.8,0,1 sd2,c,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.6,0,0 sd2,i,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.4,0,0 sd2,q,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.2,0,0 sd2,r,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 nfs1,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 nfs2,26.1,3.1,27.9,73.2,0.0,0.1,4.3,0,4 extended device statistics device,r/s,w/s,kr/s,kw/s,wait,actv,svc_t,%w,%b, sd2,a,4.9,5.7,196.2,301.6,0.1,0.0,16.9,2,3 sd2,c,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 sd2,i,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 sd2,q,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 sd2,r,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 nfs1,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 nfs2,0.8,2.8,4.9,41.3,0.0,0.0,14.6,0,1 - Roland

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