November 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

smsplus didn't recovered
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi ! I also use the smsplus script for sms-alerting http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/alerts:smsplus but i notice that the alert-option "RECOVERED" didn't exist in the sms-message, so nobody knows if it's now a regular alert or a recovered mail .. :-( Have somebody a hint or what is wrong in my enviroment ? cat /usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/smsplus.sh #!/bin/bash msg=`echo "${BBALPHAMSG}" | egrep "&yellow|&red"` msg="${msg}" # CODE: #======= subject="!HB ${ACKCODE}" alert="${BBHOSTSVC} ${BBCOLORLEVEL}" message="${alert}${msg}" /usr/sbin/sendmail -f flemming at mail.desy.de "$RCPT"<<EOT From: <martin.flemming at desy.de> To: ${RCPT} Subject: ${message} ${message} EOT Thanks & Cheers, Martin

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Xymon : how is data flow in case of xymon
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Hi, i have one doubt regarding data flow (communication) in case of xymon in the sense that server-client architecture of xymon follows push or pull of data ? In case of xymon as how data flows from server to clients or clients to server ? How the data of external ( extention/ custom scripts ) scripts is available with server. How xymon handles all tests data? does it (server) pulls all data from clients or clients sends their data to xymon? or there is two way data flow? Akshar

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Aggregation of data from multiple machines in to a single graph
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi all, I've had a dig around but have not found a solution to this problem, is it even possible? I have a number of mail servers and I have tailored the Xymon client config on each server to return the number of emails in the deferred mail queue. What I would like is to have a single graph that displays all these values together (in the same way that it displays graph for all the different disks on a single server). I know that the graphs can be created as I run an external command to generate the graphs and display them in a web page outside of Xymon. It would be nice to be able to have a configuration item for a given Xymon page and data value such that it creates an RRD graph for every server on that page which has that data value in its RRD file. Any thoughts or suggestions as to how I might be able to show this? |\/| [Colt Disclaimer] The message is intended for the named addressee only and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone else, nor may it be copied in any way. The contents of this message and its attachments are confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the named addressee and/or have received this message in error, please advise us by e-mailing abuse at colt.net and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Internet communications are not secure and Colt does not accept responsibility for this message, its contents nor responsibility for any viruses. No contracts can be created or varied on behalf of Colt Technology Services, its subsidiaries, group companies or affiliates ("Colt") and any other party by email communications unless expressly agreed in writing with such other party. Please note that incoming emails will be automatically scanned to eliminate potential viruses and unsolicited promotional emails. For more information refer to www.colt.net or contact us on +44(0)20 7390 3900

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Red HTTP test with "DNS failure" after BIND install
by Munsch＠phillycarshare.org 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hello, As the subject. I found this tantalizing tidbit in the archives: > Argh, see here for workaround. > http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/known-issues.html#dnserror > So DNS server change failed the ares library. But sadly that link is dead. Given the mention of ares, I tried --no-ares in the hobbitserver.cfg and restarted, but that seems to have had no effect. The current Xymon sourceforge known issues doesn't seem to have this. Anyone remember what the solution was? Thanks, Rob ------------------------ Rob Munsch IT Administrator PhillyCarShare 215-495-1040 x131 www.phillycarshare.org Our Vision: A Philadelphia in which non-profit car sharing exceeds the convenience, flexibility, and affordability of car ownership.

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Devmon turned purple, again.....
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Please do not thread hijack. When you take a message, remove the contents and change the subject line and send it, it still retains header information that ties it to other messages (and is now interleaving it with an involved discussion about managing shifts). Please start a new thread. Thanks! On 10/12/2010 12:25 AM, Maik Heinelt wrote: > I'm had running hobbit v4.2.3 with devmon v 0.3.0-rc1 for the last 340 > days without any big trouble. > Today, I had to restart the server and now, the devmon (dm) icon at > hobbit server itself turns purple. > > If I check all switches, who are monitored with devmon, I can see, it is > still working. also at the logs, it looks like it is working. > > I have tried to restart devmon manually, but nothing changed. > I also tried to use the latest version of devmon (0.3.1) , but it is > still the same. > > In several old messages of the list, I found similar problems, but no > clear solution. > > Would be great, if someone have a hint! > > Thank you! > > Maik > > > > To unsubscribe from the xymon list, send an e-mail to > xymon-unsubscribe at xymon.com - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzZ7N4ACgkQmb+gadEcsb7T3QCfQhax8MYy2ddiRaF8f+AU56DX PWgAnitNfeiU73HJknwox46KXQoczmWt =K2YM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ESX 4.1
by marco.avvisano＠regione.toscana.it 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

I use also the hobbit client this nagios plugin check_esx3 (for monitoring VC, Host, VM) + xynagios http://www.monitoringexchange.org/inventory/Check-Plugins/Virtualization/VM… It will be great have xynagios or something like in the new release Marco Il 25/10/2010 7.49, Daniel Rapp ha scritto: > Vmwares has some perl/Python packades for managin esx, you could probably use those and à ext script for xymon to check the esx status.. > > /Daniel > > > Skickat från min iPhone > > 25 okt 2010 kl. 07:21 skrev Dave Garaway<dave at dgaraway.com>: > > >> Thanks for the reply. Is there any tricks to getting the client install and running on the ESX hosts? >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Vernon Everett"<everett.vernon at gmail.com> >> To: xymon at xymon.com >> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 6:34:32 PM >> Subject: Re: [xymon] ESX 4.1 >> >> Hi Dave >> >> This question pops up every few months or so. I even asked it myself once upon a time. >> The short, but unfortunately incorrect answer is that you can install the Red Hat client in the service console. It is after all, a Linux variant. >> However, this monitors only the service console, which is itself, only a VM, so it gives you almost nothing about the general health of the system as a whole. >> >> You can install the Xymon client into each VM, in which case, you simply use the appropriate client for the installed OS. But again, this will only give an indication of the health of the VM, not the entire host server. >> >> At one point, when called upon to monitor ESX, I started trying to do some interesting stuff with SNMP using Devmon, but I moved on to a different project, so I never completed it. >> I did however post to the list what I had managed to do, and hoped somebody else would have picked up where I left off. As far as I am aware, nobody did. :-( >> NOTE : I am more than happy to be proven wrong on this point. :-) >> Scan the list for postings from me from about 12 to 18 months ago. It might come up with something which may prove useful. >> >> Unless somebody takes the time to come up with an ESX specific client, or does some magic with SNMP, your only hope is to install clients into every VM. >> >> Regards >> Vernon >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Dave Garaway< dave at dgaraway.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Does anyone have a good way to monitor ESX hosts and the VMs that are running on them? >> >> >> To unsubscribe from the xymon list, send an e-mail to >> xymon-unsubscribe at xymon.com >> >> >> >

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CLASS parameter in bb-hosts and hobbit-client.cfg
by heeb＠phys.ethz.ch 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi I am trying to use the CLASS parameter as described in bb-hosts(5) and hobbit-clients.cfg(5) without success. Specifically I have the following entries: in /etc/hobbit/bb-hosts: 192.33.96.71 dumbledore # ntp badntp:0:1:3 ssh CLASS:lucid in /etc/hobbit/hobbit-client.cfg: CLASS=lucid PROC gdm-binary 1 1 red The xymon/hobbit server is running Debian lenny 5.0.6 with the hobbit package version 4.2.0.dfsg-14lenny3 The client is running Ubuntu lucid 10.04 (hence the CLASS name) with the xymon-client package version 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-5 On the info page for the client the entry "Other tags:" at the bottom clearly shows CLASS:lucid whereas on the proc page there is no mention of a gdb-binary process as I would expect. All I can find in the mailing lists are references to other people's problems with CLASS. Is there something I should configure differently or is there any version of xymon that supports the CLASS parameter? Regards, -- Elmar References: http://hobbit.phys.ethz.ch/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html http://hobbit.phys.ethz.ch/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.h… http://www.xymon.com/archive/2008/09/msg00095.html http://www.xymon.com/archive/2009/11/msg00261.html -- Dr. Elmar S. Heeb <heeb at phys.ethz.ch> support: +41 44 633 26 68 IT Services Group, HPT D 19 voice: +41 44 633 25 91 Department of Physics, ETH Zurich mobile: +41 79 628 75 24 CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Removing alert from "current non-green" view ?
by tseglard＠wat.tv 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hello, I'm supervising a lot of Virtual Machines (VMware ESX 4.1) with Xymon and of course everything is ok. But I noticed an annoying behaviour with this setup : I got many alerts from the NTP test (flip-flop). What is the best solution to prevent this behaviour ? Cheers, ThomaS

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Getting Xymon alerts to the desktop
by s.seitz＠netz-haut.de 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi there, we've got wall monitors showing different xymon status pages, email and pim notification configured. But, often when it comes to failures, no one notices this instantly because of doing work and having the focus on it. For this reason, I decided to write a desktop notifier. A small icon at the system tray shows the current color of the configured xymon page, if the color changes, a balloon message pops up and virtually any command can be triggered. As this might be useful for someone else, I've published it at freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xymon-alert Well, It's licensed under the GPLv2 and available for free, so hopefully this mail doesn't count as advertising. Mit freundlichen Gruessen -- Stephan Seitz Senior System Administrator netz-haut GmbH multimediale kommunikation Zweierweg 22 97074 Würzburg Telefon: 0931 2876247 Telefax: 0931 2876248 Web: www.netz-haut.de Amtsgericht Würzburg - HRB 10764 Geschäftsführer: Michael Daut, Kai Neugebauer

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Getting Xymon alerts to the desktop
by s.seitz＠netz-haut.de 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi, SSL does work, If you install OpenSSL for Windows. An MSI Installer w/ included OpenSSL Libraries is planned. If BBTray works for you, why do you bother about Xymon Alert? I was not aware of that project. Mit freundlichen Gruessen -- Stephan Seitz Senior System Administrator netz-haut GmbH multimediale kommunikation Zweierweg 22 97074 Würzburg Telefon: 0931 2876247 Telefax: 0931 2876248 Web: www.netz-haut.de Amtsgericht Würzburg – HRB 10764 Geschäftsführer: Michael Daut, Kai Neugebauer > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Doeschner [mailto:frank.doeschner at uni-due.de] > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:12 AM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Cc: netz-haut - stephan seitz > Subject: Re: [xymon] Getting Xymon alerts to the desktop > > Hi, > > HTTPS/SSL doesnt work under Win7. > I get the following Error: Error creating SSL CTX:SSLCTXNew. > > And what about BBTray-SSL? > http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=33 > Works fine for me. > > Am 07.11.2010 14:51, schrieb netz-haut - stephan seitz: > > Hi there, > > > > we've got wall monitors showing different xymon status pages, email > and pim notification configured. But, often when it comes to failures, > no one notices this instantly because of doing work and having the focus > on it. > > For this reason, I decided to write a desktop notifier. A small icon > at the system tray shows the current color of the configured xymon page, > if the color changes, a balloon message pops up and virtually any > command can be triggered. > > > > As this might be useful for someone else, I've published it at > freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xymon-alert > > > > Well, It's licensed under the GPLv2 and available for free, so > hopefully this mail doesn't count as advertising. > > > > > > Mit freundlichen Gruessen > > > > -- > > Stephan Seitz > > Senior System Administrator > > > > netz-haut GmbH > > multimediale kommunikation > > > > Zweierweg 22 > > 97074 Würzburg > > > > Telefon: 0931 2876247 > > Telefax: 0931 2876248 > > > > Web: www.netz-haut.de > > Amtsgericht Würzburg - HRB 10764 > > Geschäftsführer: Michael Daut, Kai Neugebauer > > > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the xymon list, send an e-mail to > > xymon-unsubscribe at xymon.com > > > > > > -- > Mit freundlichen Gruessen > > Dipl.-Ing. Frank Doeschner > Universitaet Duisburg-Essen > Zentrum für Informations- und Mediendienste (ZIM) > Geschaeftsbereich IT-Infrastruktur > D-47057 Duisburg > Forsthausweg 2 / LE021 > Tel.: +49 (0)203 379-2026 Fax.: -4366 > E-Mail: frank.doeschner at uni-due.de

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