December 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

How to display own web-site(with icon) into XYMON main page
by jayantak007＠gmail.com 24 Dec '10

24 Dec '10

Hi All, How to display own web-site(with icon) into XYMON main page. With Regards, Jayanta.

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XYMON main page, procs column frequently showing red color
by jayantak007＠gmail.com 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Hi, In XYMON main page, procs column frequently showing red color, because of full following details not comming: PID PPID USER STARTED S PRI %CPU TIME %MEM RSZ VSZ CMD --- ------ -------- ------------- -- ----- ----- - .......................... .............. --- ------ -------- ------------- -- ----- ----- - .......................... .............. I configured 5 process in a particular server into "hobbit-clients.cfg" file. In the full list sometime 3 process details appears out of 5, sometime 2. How can i resolve the problem so that i will get all the process details? I mean entire list without missing any data. Kindly provide the solution. With Regards, Jayanta.

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Customisation and Migration from BB->Xymon
by jw_mark＠ymail.com 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Hi all, We are currently looking at moving from BB to xymon. I've been wanting to move us over to Xymon for ages and am excited by the fact I finally have enough management backing to undertake the shift! I've read as much as I can find and the discussion in http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/FAQ#Q.… was quite helpful in many ways, but I still have some questions that I'd like to ask.... We currently have a Operations center that gets to watch a couple of different monitoring products, BB being one of them. The BB implementation was historically customised in a couple of ways, some of which can be dropped but a couple below would be significant to Operations. * Is there a way of displaying all currently RED or PURPLE (no Yellow) alerts without playing with the source? * Currently, operations only perform an escalation on RED/PURPLE alerts, so it seems that a hack was done to the bbgen/pagegen.c code that created the bbnk pages such that for ALL hosts it only displayed hosts which had Red or Purple alerts on them. Can something like this be done natively with Xymon without needing to configure each host separately? This almost looks like something the Critical Editor/view should be able to provide? * Is there a simple way to still have "unregistered" hosts show up in the "bb2" page? * The other one would be the fact that we often have new clients installed by the admins without the BB admin being informed expeditiously. With BB these would still show up in bb2.html. With the bbgen implementation, a method was found to provide a similar result, but it relies on the files in bbvar/logs to do it (which don't exist by default with Xymon). Also any hints or tips about migration and/or migration approach would be great. Is there anything special about creating an "Active/Active" Xymon environment for redundancy? Some background information about the environment in case it helps. About 1,000 entries in bb-hosts about 50% are Windows/Unix boxes and 50% network kit. One of the drivers for migration is an expectation of an additional 50-80% increase in servers through more intergration. Currently running BB 1.9c server (on AIX) with 1.9c clients on AIX, RHEL and a small amount of Solaris. Windows clients currently run a BB client of 1.08d. Using bbgen-3.6 to create the web pages. Operations alert on Red and Purple's the Yellows are currently used by the local support towers to do more pro-active fixes before Operations needs to escalate. The idea is to move to Xymon on RHEL most likely starting on a VMWare guest environment. Regards J

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Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?
by Daniel.Nordquist＠orlandohealth.com 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Hey all, I doubt I can do this but maybe someone knows a trick... I'd like to be able to send email alerts with a high importance flag based on the alert color and/or specific server or service that is down. Is there any way to do this? I've scoured the man pages but can't find anything. Thanks, 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.

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graph a sum from different graphs
by tseglard＠wat.tv 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Hello, I'm sorry for asking you this question again but I really can't figure how to graph a sum of values coming from other graphes. Basically I want to make a graph of the total bandwidth consumed by a pool of servers. For this I would like to use the values coming from the ifstat graph of each server. What will be the best solution ? As I said I asked this question before and got answer from two people but I was not able to have the proposed solution working. So if you have other ideas you're very welcome ! I thank you very much for your answers. Sincerly, ThomaS

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Displayed time
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

Hi all I've recently noticed that the displayed time (top right hand corner) shows the local time (in my case +8UTC) when in main view and non-green but shows UTC time in Critical Systems and when viewing client status pages. Any ideas why this is the case? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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Andreas Sin/CH/ITC/ALSTOM is out of the office.
by andreas.sin＠alstom.com 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

I will be out of the office starting 23.12.2010 and will not return until 03.01.2011. I will respond to your message when I return. I will return on Monday, 3rd of January 2011 in the morning. During this time my deputies are Przemyslaw Hoppe and Piotr Ostrowski. In emergency cases I'm reachable on my mobile phone +41 79 619 35 36. Please send me a text with your request or your concern and I will get back to you ASAP. Best regards Andreas Sin

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External scripts for Xymon client on Xymon Server
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am not sure what is the correct way to add external scripts to a client instance running on a machine that houses a server. If you look in hobbitlaunch.cfg in the server's etc directory, you see: # "hobbitclient" runs the Xymon client. The client is installed # automatically when you install a Xymon server (presumably, you do # want to monitor the Xymon server ?), but there's no need to have two # hobbitlaunch instances running at the same time. So we'll just run it # from here. # Note: If you are using another client package, you should disable this # one. [hobbitclient] ENVFILE /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m ...however, if I do this, it appears as if either none of the external scripts run, or if they do run, they don't write anything to the logfiles/do not get their information to the Xymon server program. Do I need to add the external scripts to hobbitlaunch.cfg instead of clientlaunch.cfg? Something else? Thanks in advance for any help! - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |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/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0Se9kACgkQmb+gadEcsb5dZgCcCTI1Vo5bettyXsJmPVxvUCBn vvEAn1JPGf35Bp05ixzRkl1aGIqR9f46 =SXy3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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AUTO: Gautier Begin is out of the office (returning 03/01/2011)
by gbegin＠csc.com 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

I am out of the office until 03/01/2011. In case of urgency, call the 105. Regards, Note: This is an automated response to your message "RE: [xymon] RE: graph a sum from different graphs" sent on 17/12/10 14:47:29. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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xymon client for hp-ux 11.23 ia64
by avaccaro＠produban.us 22 Dec '10

22 Dec '10

Any leads here? -----Original Message----- From: Vaccaro, Anthony D Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 4:50 PM To: 'Henrik Størner' Subject: RE: xymon client for hp-ux 11.23 ia64 Thank you Henrik, I will give it a try.... -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 4:48 PM To: Vaccaro, Anthony D Subject: Re: xymon client for hp-ux 11.23 ia64 Hi Anthony, I don't know - HP/UX is not my most used platform, so I don't have any binaries at hand. Try asking on the regular xymon mailing list - xymon at xymon.com - since I know there are some HP/UX users out there. What errors do you get when you try to compile it ? And what compiler are you using ? I seem to recall the original HP/UX compiler has some problems, but gcc should work fine on this platform. Regards, Henrik On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:03:46PM -0500, Vaccaro, Anthony D wrote: > Henrik, > > Are there any xymon client binaries available for hp-ux itanium? > > I tried compiling with no success... > > Any leads would be helpful. > > Thank you!!! > > > > Anthony D Vaccaro > Produban US > > Mail Code: 11-900-PB3 > 1130 Berkshire Boulevard > Wyomissing, PA 19610 > Tel: 610-208-9025 (659025) > Fax: 610-371-5409 > avaccaro at produban.us >

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