December 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Feature: Grouped Non-green view
by me＠falz.net 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

I sent this message the other day but it appears to be strangely split up in the archives: http://www.xymon.com/archive/2010/12/msg00030.html http://www.xymon.com/archive/2010/12/msg00031.html So I'm resending it: I'd love to see an option for the "non-green view" (bb2) to be grouped by the "page" attribute in bb-hosts. I would visualize this as still having a list one one page but separated by the title of each "page" while maintaining the page sort order as in the main view. >From what I can tell this functionality would live in bbgen, I looked through its help file but didn't see any option to enable this. I would see this as a useful way to assist in troubleshoot or to organize what systems to fix during outage or possibly scheduled maintenance where you may have a large portion of your hosts down. For example, we have a page for the core of our network that's first in bb-hosts. Having this always at the top instead of mixed in with 100's of other things we would be great. Looking at bbdisplay/pagegen.c under do_bb2_page I see: bb2page.subpages = NULL; bb2page.groups = NULL; But no other references to these. Is this feature on the roadmap? --Chris

3 7

BB to the latest Xymon - Input Wanted
by bb＠buglecreek.com 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Our organization if currently trying to decide which direction to go for our new monitoring system (Xymon, Nagios, Zabbix or other open source products). We have been using BB for several years and have found it adaquate for our needs, but it has some drawbacks that we want to rectify (graphing, snmp for routers and switches etc). I set up a small test site some time ago with Xymon 4.2.3 and used some of our custom BB scripts with it. Everything seemed to work fine and it seems to satisfy the graphing issue one the Xymon client gets installed on the client systems. It appears, at least for now that Devmon is the best choice for SNMP with Xymon? Part of the argument for going with Xymon is the ease in which we can use our custom BB scripts. Looking at the latest 4.3 Xymon version if appears that many of the file names have changed from the 4.2.3 version (bb-hosts, config files etc.). All that said, here are few concerns that have been brought up, any comments would be appreciated: 1. Can the 4.3 (future stable version) easily run our existing BB scripts. I know 4.2.3 can, but was curious about 4.3 and the file name changes. Looking at the latest BB to Xymon doc it seems that it should be ok. Just looking for comfirmation. 2. We like that Xymon has a nice way to monitor log files for certain events and unauthorized ports being opened, are there any issues with system performance when monitoring log files for a "lot" of events. I know a lot could mean many things, but has anyone run into performance issues? 3. Is Devmon still the recommended way to use SNMP with Xymon? Are there plans to incorporate SNMP into future releases? Some here want to use Cacti. 4. In the test 4.2.3 server system I added some hosts in the hobbits-clients.cfg file with some PROC, PORT (to look for unauthorized listeners), and LOG rules. With only a few hosts, it became apparent that this file will become huge very quickly and somewhat unruly. Is there a better way to handle this? It seems that a site with 100+ or 1000+ hosts all having an entry in the hobbits-clients.cfg on the Xymon server the file will be unmanageable. Maybe I'm not doing this correctly, since I set this test up fairly quickly? Thanks for the input.

2 1

4.3.0 beta3 compile problem on solaris 10 sparc
by henrik＠hswn.dk 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

In <ic2jgs$8ss$1 at voodoo.hswn.dk> Henrik "Størner" <henrik at hswn.dk> writes: >In <4CE450D8.1050809 at logicaltech.com.au> Roland Soderstrom <rolands at logicaltech.com.au> writes: >>Another problem: >>I'm trying to compile the client on Solaris 9 SPARC and get this error. >>gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE >>-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DSunOS -I. -I/var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/include >>-DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o misc.o misc.c >>In file included from /var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/include/libxymon.h:56, >> from misc.c:34: >>/var/tmp/xymon-4.3.0.beta3/include/../lib/eventlog.h:38: error: syntax >>error before numeric constant >Yes, I've seen this on Solaris 8 also. Looking into it. Turned out to be a name collision between some constants defined on Solaris and in Xymon. So renaming them in Xymon solves this issue. Patch attached, or download rev. 6604 from SVN. Index: xymongen/pagegen.c =================================================================== --- xymongen/pagegen.c (revision 6602) +++ xymongen/pagegen.c (revision 6604) @@ -954,7 +954,7 @@ do_eventlog(output, nongreeneventlogmaxcount, nongreeneventlogmaxtime, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, nongreennodialups, host_exists, - NULL, NULL, NULL, COUNT_NONE, S_NONE, NULL); + NULL, NULL, NULL, XYMON_COUNT_NONE, XYMON_S_NONE, NULL); } } else if (strcmp(p, "acklog.sh") == 0) { @@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ do_eventlog(output, nongreeneventlogmaxcount, nongreeneventlogmaxtime, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, nongreennodialups, host_exists, - NULL, NULL, NULL, COUNT_NONE, S_NONE, NULL); + NULL, NULL, NULL, XYMON_COUNT_NONE, XYMON_S_NONE, NULL); } if (nongreenacklog && !havedoneacklog) do_acklog(output, nongreenacklogmaxcount, nongreenacklogmaxtime); } Index: lib/eventlog.c =================================================================== --- lib/eventlog.c (revision 6602) +++ lib/eventlog.c (revision 6604) @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ oldcolname = colorname(eventcolor(oldcol)); newcolname = colorname(eventcolor(newcol)); /* For DURATION counts, we must parse all events until now */ - if ((counttype != COUNT_DURATION) && (eventtime > lastevent)) break; + if ((counttype != XYMON_COUNT_DURATION) && (eventtime > lastevent)) break; eventhost = hostinfo(hostname); eventcolumn = getname(svcname, 1); @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ ignoredialups, hostcheck) == 0) continue; /* For duration counts, record all events. We'll filter out the colors later. */ - if (colrregexp && (counttype != COUNT_DURATION)) { + if (colrregexp && (counttype != XYMON_COUNT_DURATION)) { colrmatch = ( (pcre_exec(colrregexp, NULL, newcolname, strlen(newcolname), 0, 0, ovector, (sizeof(ovector)/sizeof(int))) >= 0) || (pcre_exec(colrregexp, NULL, oldcolname, strlen(oldcolname), 0, 0, @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ newevent->next = eventhead; eventhead = newevent; - if (counttype != COUNT_DURATION) { + if (counttype != XYMON_COUNT_DURATION) { countrec = (eventcount_t *)xmh_item(eventhost, XMH_DATA); while (countrec && (countrec->service != eventcolumn)) countrec = countrec->next; if (countrec == NULL) { @@ -695,8 +695,8 @@ /* Count the state changes per host */ svccounthead = hostcounthead = NULL; switch (counttype) { - case COUNT_EVENTS: count_events(&hostcounthead, &svccounthead); break; - case COUNT_DURATION: count_duration(firstevent, lastevent, + case XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS: count_events(&hostcounthead, &svccounthead); break; + case XYMON_COUNT_DURATION: count_duration(firstevent, lastevent, pageregexp, expageregexp, hostregexp, exhostregexp, testregexp, extestregexp, @@ -718,12 +718,12 @@ if (periodstring) fprintf(output, "<p><font size=+1>%s</font></p>\n", periodstring); switch (sumtype) { - case S_HOST_BREAKDOWN: + case XYMON_S_HOST_BREAKDOWN: /* Request for a specific service, show breakdown by host */ for (cwalk = hostcounthead; (cwalk); cwalk = cwalk->next) totalcount += cwalk->total; fprintf(output, "<table summary=\"Breakdown by host\" border=0>\n"); fprintf(output, "<tr><th align=left>Host</th><th colspan=2>%s</th></tr>\n", - (counttype == COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); + (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); fprintf(output, "<tr><td colspan=3><hr width=\"100%%\"></td></tr>\n"); for (cwalk = hostcounthead; (cwalk && (cwalk->total > 0)); cwalk = cwalk->next) { fprintf(output, "<tr><td align=left>%s</td><td align=right>%lu</td><td align=right>(%6.2f %%)</tr>\n", @@ -733,12 +733,12 @@ fprintf(output, "</table>\n"); break; - case S_SERVICE_BREAKDOWN: + case XYMON_S_SERVICE_BREAKDOWN: /* Request for a specific host, show breakdown by service */ for (cwalk = svccounthead; (cwalk); cwalk = cwalk->next) totalcount += cwalk->total; fprintf(output, "<table summary=\"Breakdown by service\" border=0>\n"); fprintf(output, "<tr><th align=left>Service</th><th colspan=2>%s</th></tr>\n", - (counttype == COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); + (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); fprintf(output, "<tr><td colspan=3><hr width=\"100%%\"></td></tr>\n"); for (cwalk = svccounthead; (cwalk && (cwalk->total > 0)); cwalk = cwalk->next) { fprintf(output, "<tr><td align=left>%s</td><td align=right>%lu</td><td align=right>(%6.2f %%)</tr>\n", @@ -748,11 +748,11 @@ fprintf(output, "</table>\n"); break; - case S_NONE: + case XYMON_S_NONE: break; } - if (sumtype == S_NONE) { + if (sumtype == XYMON_S_NONE) { int count; count=0; ewalk=eventhead; @@ -783,11 +783,11 @@ for (ewalk=eventhead; (ewalk); ewalk=ewalk->next) { char *hostname = xmh_item(ewalk->host, XMH_HOSTNAME); - if ( (counttype == COUNT_DURATION) && + if ( (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_DURATION) && (ewalk->oldcolor < COL_YELLOW) && (ewalk->newcolor < COL_YELLOW) ) continue; - if ( (counttype == COUNT_DURATION) && + if ( (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_DURATION) && (ewalk->eventtime >= lastevent) ) continue; fprintf(output, "<TR BGCOLOR=%s>\n", bgcolors[bgcolor]); Index: lib/eventlog.h =================================================================== --- lib/eventlog.h (revision 6602) +++ lib/eventlog.h (revision 6604) @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ struct countlist_t *next; } countlist_t; -typedef enum { S_NONE, S_HOST_BREAKDOWN, S_SERVICE_BREAKDOWN } eventsummary_t; -typedef enum { COUNT_NONE, COUNT_EVENTS, COUNT_DURATION } countsummary_t; +typedef enum { XYMON_S_NONE, XYMON_S_HOST_BREAKDOWN, XYMON_S_SERVICE_BREAKDOWN } eventsummary_t; +typedef enum { XYMON_COUNT_NONE, XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS, XYMON_COUNT_DURATION } countsummary_t; typedef int (*f_hostcheck)(char *hostname); Index: web/eventlog.c =================================================================== --- web/eventlog.c (revision 6602) +++ web/eventlog.c (revision 6604) @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ char *colorregex = NULL; int ignoredialups = 0; int topcount = 0; -eventsummary_t summarybar = S_NONE; -countsummary_t counttype = COUNT_NONE; +eventsummary_t summarybar = XYMON_S_NONE; +countsummary_t counttype = XYMON_COUNT_NONE; char *webfile_hf = "event"; char *webfile_form = "event_form"; cgidata_t *cgidata = NULL; @@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ if (*(cwalk->value)) topcount = atoi(cwalk->value); } else if (strcasecmp(cwalk->name, "SUMMARY") == 0) { - if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "hosts") == 0) summarybar = S_HOST_BREAKDOWN; - else if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "services") == 0) summarybar = S_SERVICE_BREAKDOWN; - else summarybar = S_NONE; + if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "hosts") == 0) summarybar = XYMON_S_HOST_BREAKDOWN; + else if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "services") == 0) summarybar = XYMON_S_SERVICE_BREAKDOWN; + else summarybar = XYMON_S_NONE; } else if (strcasecmp(cwalk->name, "COUNTTYPE") == 0) { - if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "events") == 0) counttype = COUNT_EVENTS; - else if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "duration") == 0) counttype = COUNT_DURATION; - else counttype = COUNT_NONE; + if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "events") == 0) counttype = XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS; + else if (strcasecmp(cwalk->value, "duration") == 0) counttype = XYMON_COUNT_DURATION; + else counttype = XYMON_COUNT_NONE; } else if (strcasecmp(cwalk->name, "TIMETXT") == 0) { if (*(cwalk->value)) strcpy(periodstring, cwalk->value); @@ -165,14 +165,14 @@ addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&SUMMARY=services"); addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&TIMETXT="); addtobuffer(othercriteria, periodstring); - if (counttype == COUNT_EVENTS) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=events"); - else if (counttype == COUNT_DURATION) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=duration"); + if (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=events"); + else if (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_DURATION) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=duration"); fprintf(output, "<td width=40%% align=center valign=top>\n"); fprintf(output, " <table summary=\"Top %d hosts\" border=0>\n", topcount); fprintf(output, " <tr><th colspan=3>Top %d hosts</th></tr>\n", topcount); fprintf(output, " <tr><th align=left>Host</th><th align=left colspan=2>%s</th></tr>\n", - (counttype == COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); + (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); /* Compute the total count */ for (i=0, cwalk=hostcounthead; (cwalk); i++, cwalk=cwalk->next) totalcount += cwalk->total; @@ -246,15 +246,15 @@ addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&SUMMARY=hosts"); addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&TIMETXT="); addtobuffer(othercriteria, periodstring); - if (counttype == COUNT_EVENTS) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=events"); - else if (counttype == COUNT_DURATION) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=duration"); + if (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=events"); + else if (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_DURATION) addtobuffer(othercriteria, "&COUNTTYPE=duration"); fprintf(output, "<td width=40%% align=center valign=top>\n"); fprintf(output, " <table summary=\"Top %d services\" border=0>\n", topcount); fprintf(output, " <tr><th colspan=3>Top %d services</th></tr>\n", topcount); fprintf(output, " <tr><th align=left>Service</th><th align=left colspan=2>%s</th></tr>\n", - (counttype == COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); + (counttype == XYMON_COUNT_EVENTS) ? "State changes" : "Seconds red/yellow"); /* Compute the total count */ for (i=0, cwalk=svccounthead; (cwalk); i++, cwalk=cwalk->next) totalcount += cwalk->total; @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ do_eventlog(NULL, -1, -1, fromtime, totime, pageregex, expageregex, hostregex, exhostregex, testregex, extestregex, colorregex, ignoredialups, NULL, - &events, &hcounts, &scounts, counttype, S_NONE, NULL); + &events, &hcounts, &scounts, counttype, XYMON_S_NONE, NULL); lastevent = (totime ? eventreport_time(totime) : getcurrenttime(NULL)); Regards, Henrik

2 1

[xymon]Partition Disk w2K8 disable
by dberuben＠neova.ca 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Hello, I have a wired problem . I can't delete a partition (disk) to my windows 2008R2, The hobbit client detect a partition ... but when a tried to found ( in windows ) the partition i have nothing ... So it's not un problem , i need juste to disable the partition to my bbwin.cfg config. But nothing append ... For exemple : Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail) C 142632956 26311044 116321912 18% /FIXED/C 136.25gb\110.95gb green Shared 0 0 0 0% /UNKOWN/Shared 0.00b\0.00b red D 285472764 42774676 242698088 14% /FIXED/D 272.25gb\231.46gb green XML client <setting name="Shared" ignore="true" /> I tried lot of multiple ways .. Please Help

3 3

95th percentile
by tseglard＠wat.tv 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Hello, I would like to graph the 95th percentile of my network traffic. Hence I think that I should be mandatory to modify the < ifstat > definition within hobbitgraph.cfg (sorry I don't move on the new beta version of Xymon J ). Can anybody help me to achieve this please ? Or maybe do you have other way to make it ? Sincerly, Thomas S

1 0

Xymon 4.3.0 beta 3 xymonproxy issue
by olivier＠audry.fr 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

hello perhaps I found an regression into the xymonproxy process : my setup : xymonproxy listen on vip1 on port 1984 he send information to a local xymond on 127.0.0.1 and port 1984 he send information to a local xymonproxy1 listen on 127.0.0.1 and port 1985 xymonproxy1 send information to vip2 on port 1984 he send information to a local xymonproxy2 listen on 127.0.0.1 and port 1986 xymonproxy2 send information to vip3 on port 1984 for status message (client running locally and send status to vip1 on port 1984) status is show on local xymond on 127.0.0.1 and port 1984 and on remote vip2 on port 1984. this is fine. I do a xymon --timeout=5 127.0.0.1 "xymondboard" everything is ok. But if I do a xymon --timeout=5 vip1 "xymondboard" is not working. I can see this into debug logs : xymonproxy listen on vip1 on port 1984 logs : 2010-12-02 10:58:58 vip1 : xymondboard local xymond on 127.0.0.1 and port 1984 logs : ==> /var/log/xymon/xymond.log <== 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 -> do_message/1 (11 bytes): xymondboard 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 -> update_statistics 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 <- update_statistics 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 -> oksender 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 <- oksender(1-a) 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 -> setup_filter: xymondboard 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 <- setup_filter: xymondboard 11699 2010-12-02 11:02:28 <- do_message/1 So we can see that xymond receive the xymondboard request but don't return information. In previous setup with hobbit 4.2 this is working fine. I hope it's my explanation are clear. oau

2 4

GR Secutiry patch
by doctor＠makelofine.org 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

Hi all, I'm running Xymon client 4.3.0-beta3 on a linux client. This one have kernel 2.6.34.6 with GR Security patch applied. Does any one has a howto to get xymon running on it (basically : report process & network sockets) ? Regards, Damien

1 0

Feature: Grouped Non-green view
by me＠falz.net 05 Dec '10

05 Dec '10

I'd love to see an option for the "non-green view" (bb2) to be grouped by the "page" attribute in bb-hosts. I would visualize this as still having a list one one page but separated by the title of each "page" while maintaining the page sort order as in the main view. >From what I can tell this functionality would live in bbgen, I looked through its help file but didn't see any option to enable this. I would see this as a useful way to assist in troubleshoot or to organize what systems to fix during outage or possibly scheduled maintenance where you may have a large portion of your hosts down. For example, we have a page for the core of our network that's first in bb-hosts. Having this always at the top instead of mixed in with 100's of other things we would be great. Looking at bbdisplay/pagegen.c under do_bb2_page I see: bb2page.subpages = NULL; bb2page.groups = NULL; But no other references to these. Is this feature on the roadmap? --Chris

1 0

Delete partition disk impossible win2K8
by dberuben＠neova.ca 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello, I have a wired problem . I can't delete a partition (disk) to my windows 2008R2, The hobbit client detect a partition ... but when a tried to found ( in windows ) the partition i have nothing ... So it's not un problem , i need juste to disable the partition to my bbwin.cfg config. But nothing append ... For exemple : Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail) C 142632956 26311044 116321912 18% /FIXED/C 136.25gb\110.95gb green Shared 0 0 0 0% /UNKOWN/Shared 0.00b\0.00b red D 285472764 42774676 242698088 14% /FIXED/D 272.25gb\231.46gb green XML client <setting name="Shared" ignore="true" /> I tried lot of multiple ways .. Please Help

1 0

Partition delete impossible
by dberuben＠neova.ca 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello, I have a wired problem . I can't delete a partition to my windows 2008R2, The hobbit client detect a partition ... but when a tried to found ( in windows ) the partition i have nothing ... So it's not un problem , i need juste to disable the partition to my bbwin.cfg config. But nothing append ... For exemple : Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail) C 142632956 26311044 116321912 18% /FIXED/C 136.25gb\110.95gb green Shared 0 0 0 0% /UNKOWN/Shared 0.00b\0.00b red D 285472764 42774676 242698088 14% /FIXED/D 272.25gb\231.46gb green XML client <setting name="Shared" ignore="true" /> I tried lot of multiple ways .. Please Help

1 0