November 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

alerting with combo question
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Hi ! I've got an difficult problem with an alerting-rule, which my customers expect .. .. unfortunately i'm afraid that it couldn't work, maybe someone on the list got an idea .. :-) I've got a lustere-quota-check which should run on 4 host for reliability reasons ... If everything is ok, the output looks on each host like Tue Nov 30 11:13:35 CET 2010 - LUSTRE Mount(s) on tcx060 OK filesystem summary: 78.2T 58.0T 16.3T 74% /scratch/hh/lustre/atlas filesystem summary: 19.9T 18.7T 233.8G 93% /scratch/zn/lustre/atlas If the quota will be reached, the output got additional informations of all user-directory and there size ... till this point all easy .. Now, my customers wants to get only one alert with the additional informations of all user-directory and there size and not four times for each host I've tested it with the bbcombotest.cfg like e.g. AtlasLustre.lustre-atlas = (tcx040.lustre\-atlas + tcx060.lustre\-atlas + tcx080.lustre\-atlas + tcx120.lustre\-atlas ) >= 4 This Alarm works of course, but i've got only this alert-message Red Mon Nov 29 14:37:07 2010 (tcx040.lustre\-atlas+tcx060.lustre\-atlas+tcx080.lustre\-atlas+tcx120.lustre\-atlas)>=4 = (1+1+1+1)>=4 = 0 &green tcx040.lustre-atlas &green tcx060.lustre-atlas &green tcx080.lustre-atlas &red tcx120.lustre-atlas Without the additional informations of all user-directory and there size, and thats logical of course .. but didn't solve my problem :-( Any hints are welcome ! Thanks & cheers Martin

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Removal of ghost clients
by isolderj＠hotmail.com 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

I have tried to search on the xymon archives page for a solution but the search is not work. Is there a way to get rid of ghost clients in hobbit. I have treid the drop command but it still stays on the hobbitd page. Thanks

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Official Version
by Chris.Morris＠rwe.com 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Firstly can I say it is great that Henrik is back and xymon seems to be moving forward again. Can I ask why the beta release is 4.3.0-beta3? What happened to the 4.4.0-1 version I downloaded in March and have been running with since then? What are the major differences/developments since then? I have been out of thhe loop as I tried unsubscribing my old email and subscribing with the new one unsuccessfully several times!! Chris Morris RWE IT UK E-mail: chris.morris at rwe.com **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither the RWE Group of Companies nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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Brief red alarms
by jkikpole＠cairodurham.org 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

We recently had a major change in our network's design. The entire topology had the change, including IP addresses of servers and the "routes" through switches between things. Ever since then, Xymon is reporting very brief (10-20 seconds) outages of one server or another every 30-60 minutes. I tried this suggestion: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/docs/known-issues.html#netfail No luck. A few minutes later, the server Xymon is running on allegedly failed the "conn" test for about 1 second. Any other ideas? If you want to see the symptoms, look at my Xymon instance at http://cns.cairodurham.org/hobbit/bb2.html. This will show the brief outages that I'm talking about. Thanks in advance, Jaime Kikpole -- Network Administrator Cairo-Durham Central School District http://cns.cairodurham.org

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searching in xymon-archive not possible
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi ! Something is going wrong while searching in the xymon archive ivegot follows error message http://www.xymon.com/archive/ Not Found The requested URL /std-cgi/htsearch was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g Server at www.xymon.com Port 80 Can somebody acknowledge this error ? Thanks & Cheers Martin

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hobbitgraph.cgi: Attempting to reuse 'mysqlht'
by skliarie＠gmail.com 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hi, Initially I filed my problem as a bug over here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3116811&group_id=128058&at… but now I am not sure it is a bug, so posting it here for more lively discussion: I created a custom mysql parameters check that shows graphs on one server, but not on the other. hobbitgraph.sh (hobbitgraph.cgi?) kept sending following error instead of the actual image: <html><head><title>Invalid request</title></head> <body>Attempting to reuse 'mysqlht'</body></html> If I request the same image for different server, same service - I get the image. If I copy the mysql.rrd file from the /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/atl-db01/mysql.rrd into the /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/pa04, then the image for pa04 shows graph for the atl-db01. Could be that dash in name of that particular server was affecting the hobbitgraph.cgi somehow? I can attach the hobbitgraph.d/mysql.cfg and hobbitserver.d/mysql.cfg if that would help. -- Arie

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beta3 ping test
by rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

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TRACKMAX feature in 4.3.0b3 - help/info wanted
by Stephen.Mullin＠usa.net 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

First, thanks for the new release! I ask for more detail and maybe procedural examples to the TRACKMAX feature. Built-in TRACKMAX is something I hope will solve the beating I've been taking. QUESTIONS: -"This only works for the NCV backend" .... does this mean only the addition client tests we add, not the CPU/Mem/vmstat built-ins ? -Do we have to loop through out RRD files and resize, it it advisable to do so? (I'm thinking I should) -Do we have to loop through our RRD files and mod settings to match/sync with TRACKMAX settings? The referenced link to a note and discussion don't work, but I did find some discussions, and sorry to say I wouldn't be able to figure out what to do from them. My goal is to have 60days of detailed data without too much granularity loss or smoothing. I got space and plenty of horsepower. Anything to get the suits off my back about the "bad data" (their words!). Thanks, -Steve ==============================================================

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split "views" is possible?
by soopal＠ice.go.cr 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi all: My team want to put separate views of the equipment monitored by xymon. For example get all test/data from a server on a page called HW and put some of the gathered data on a page called Service. I this way we want to put separate views of one entity.. one view which shows everything so is the necessary for the sysadmin and the other view (fewer columns) that remove the extra data and show the estricly data of a service or function of the server. Can be this acomplish since man pages warns against it with unexpectable results. (bb-hosts). Thanks! Este mensaje de correo electrónico, incluidos los archivos adjuntos, es para el uso exclusivo de la persona a la que se ha enviado, y puede contener información que sea confidencial o protegida legalmente. Si usted no es el destinatario, o ha recibido este mensaje por error, no está autorizado a copiar, distribuir, o utilizar de alguna manera este mensaje. Por favor notifique inmediatamente al remitente por correo electrónico y suprimir permanentemente este mensaje y los archivos adjuntos. No se otorga ninguna garantía de que este e-mail esté libre de errores o virus. INSTITUTO COSTARRICENSE DE ELECTRICIDAD

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maxdelay option
by tm＠freedom.com 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Default should always be the last entry. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> To: xymon at xymon.com <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: Wed Oct 06 12:58:22 2010 Subject: Re: [xymon] maxdelay option At the top of your $SERVER_HOME/etc/hobbt-clients.cfg file, you can have a "default" setting. Here's mine: DEFAULT UP 10m DISK / 95 97 DISK /tmp 95 97 FILE /var/log/messages TRACK=syslog "TEXT=Syslog Size" PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]22)$" state=ESTABLISHED min=0 max=20 color=yellow TRACK=ssh "TEXT=SSH logins" Most any value can be set default across all hosts from here. The documentation is in this file at the top. I think that's what you're asking for. --j On Oct 6, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Nordquist, Daniel wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been trying to find a way to set my uptime reporting option globally but I can't find a way. I know I can do it individually with each monitored servers bbwin.cfg file and setting a maxdelay, but does anyone know of a way to do it globally? I know I can eliminate the column, but we do want to see recent reboots while we don't want to see servers that have been up "too long" on the bb2 page. > > Much appreciated! > Dan > > > This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. > > This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . > > If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health. > > To unsubscribe from the xymon list, send an e-mail to > xymon-unsubscribe at xymon.com > > To unsubscribe from the xymon list, send an e-mail to xymon-unsubscribe at xymon.com

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