March 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

XyMon client for Windows - XyWin.Net
by fl8750＠laforest.biz 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi, I am starting to develop a new client for Windows systems. While BBwin is a very solid product, but my wishlist is LARGE and my knowledge of C++ and Windows DLL development is very limited. However, I am VERY comfortable with the .NET framework. So, to save (my) time, I am writing a "from the ground up" new XyMon client for Windows. Written in C# on .NET v2.0 framework. (V2.0 is standard Win 2003 and up.) It's still in the early design stages, but the XyWin.Net core framework is firming up quickly. The core framework will make building separate "plug-ins" very easy. I welcome all input (and help). It is at SourceForge. Blog: http://xywinnet.sourceforge.net Project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xywinnet Thanks. Fred LaForest fl8750 (at) laforest (dot) biz

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Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?
by cade.robinson＠gmail.com 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Is anyone maintaining xymon currently? I have several bugs that I have patches for that I am sure is affecting others. I have posted them but nothing gets commited to SVN. Also I just hack my way through knowing a little C but I don't know if the patches are right. I know they fix my issues but don't know if they cause other issues. The last few commits to SVN have been done to the branches and nothing done to "trunk" in over a year. Isn't trunk supposed to be the latest devel area and "branches" are releases? "trunk" is almost 200 commits behind branches which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I see there are open bugs almost 5 years old so that doesn't look to be used either. So just curious if this project is still in development and if I could be of help to get things fixed and maybe help get the SVN layout into "best practice".

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proc related alerts based on group (feature request)
by vadud3＠gmail.com 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

PROC joeproc GROUP=joe GROUP=joe MAIL joe at example.com ! MAIL wholegroup at example.com Can I do something like this? I want to alert joe only about `joeproc' . So that part works fine by giving the process a group-id and alert `onlyjoe at example.com' only when grouip-id matches. But, I also want only joe gets alert for those processes. So is there a way I can prevent the whole group to receive alerts related to joeproc ? would be nice if I could have EXPROC or NOT MAIL .. something like that. So this can be achieved easily: alert joe at example.com ONLY for process joeproc. don't alert him for any other procs. this cannot be achieved easily: alert ONLY joe at example.con for process joeproc. don't alert wholegroup at example.com for this process. I could exservice proc for wholegroup at example.com and then for each group of hosts (PAGE) or each list of hosts (using regex) I need to setup a GROUP for the list of procs that I want the wholegroup to be alerted on. That is lot of work It would be easy if I rather have some negation rule synatx, like EXPROC or NOT MAIL any suggestion is welcome. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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BBWin Virtual Memory
by johan.sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi. I am posting this here, since the BBWin project seems (even more) dead. I have been trying to figure out what the different values in BBWin's memory test are. During this, I noticed that the "Virtual" size is shown as 2047MB for all our Windows clients, regardless of the real size of the virtual memory. Has anyone else noticied this? Also, it seems like the "Real" memory indicator mentioned in the help file does not work at all. What alarm levels do you people use for Memory in BBWin? We have previously only been using "Virtual" for alarms, but with the recent discovery that seems like a very bad idea. /Johan

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WARNING: Runtime longer than time limit / DNS Timeout
by xymon.user.ml＠gmail.com 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

I'm having an issue where my bbtest column is turning yellow if I have a host or three offline, saying "WARNING: Runtime 485 longer than time limit (300)". Just below this it breaks down how long bbtest-net takes on each type of test, it "says DNS tests executed" is 452 seconds. I added "--debug --dns-timeout=15 --dnslog=/var/log/hobbit/bbtest-dns.log" to the bbtest-net command in the hobbitlaunch.cfg file, and I can see the following in my bb-network.log: 2010-02-24 14:27:54 ares_search: tlookup='[HOSTNAME1]', class=1, type=1 2010-02-24 14:27:54 Processing 0 DNS lookups with ARES 2010-02-24 14:35:24 Finished ARES queue after loop 1285 My bbtest-dns.log is strangely empty. This is a remote host that is down (they lost power or something), which unfortunately does happen from time to time. I have a couple other hosts down in a similar fashion that report the same 7 and a half minute delay in this log file. I have hundreds of other hosts that are up that successfully complete their DNS lookup in a fraction of a second. I do not understand why it is taking 7 and a half minutes to fail it's dns lookup. I would love to figure out how to have it give up and fail a little quicker. I thought the --dns-timeout=15 would accomplish this but it is not. At the moment I am not running with the --no-ares option. I attempted to turn that option on but I was still seeing the exact same behavior in the bb-network.log. Can someone tell me what I'm missing, or if this is a bug? Thanks

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occational hobbitd_client crash
by hvillemoes＠csc.com 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi The hobbitd_client (version Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 hobbit hobbit 558425 Feb 1 13:22 /hobbit/server/bin/hobbitd_client) crashes every second week. Please find below gdb output Best regards HARALD VILLEMOES CSC ScandiHealth | +45 36147236 | +45 29236962 | hvillemoes at csc.com | www.csc.dk CSC • This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose • CSC Consulting Group A/S • Registered Office: Retortvej 8, 1780 Copenhagen V, Denmark • Registered in Denmark No: 26031362 [root at fulda client]# gdb /hobbit/server/bin/hobbitd_client ../server/tmp/core.30110 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.5-37.el5_2.2rh) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0. Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...done.. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done... Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6. Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done... Loaded symbols for /lib/libpthread.so.0. Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2. Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'.... Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00f9d410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0x00f9d410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x00129d20 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6. #2 0x0012b631 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6. #3 0x0806bd43 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57 #4 <signal handler called> #5 0x0017007b in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x0804e294 in bbwin_svcs_report (hostname=0x4120544e <Address 0x4120544e out of bounds>, clientclass=0x4f485455 <Address 0x4f485455 out of bounds>,. os=1498696018, hinfo=0x5359535c, fromline=0x204d4554 <Address 0x204d4554 out of bounds>, timestr=0x20202020 <Address 0x20202020 out of bounds>, namecol=538976288, startupcol=538976288, statecol=538976288, svcstr=0x36353333 <Address 0x36353333 out of bounds>, svcauto=0x30300a6b <Address 0x30300a6b out of bounds>) at client/bbwin.c:379 #7 0x20203030 in ?? () #8 0x4120544e in ?? () #9 0x4f485455 in ?? () #10 0x59544952 in ?? () #11 0x5359535c in ?? ()

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bbcombotest patch
by cade.robinson＠gmail.com 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

I found that bbcombotest didn't work for hostnames starting with a number. My fix: (this is on the 4.4.0 branch) @@ -295,13 +291,10 @@ done = 0; inp=symbolicexpr; outp=expr; symp = NULL; while (!done) { - if (isalpha((int)*inp)) { + if (isalpha((int)*inp) || isdigit((int) *inp) || *inp == '.') { if (!insymbol) { insymbol = 1; symp = symbol; } *symp = *inp; symp++; } - else if (insymbol && (isdigit((int) *inp) || (*inp == '.'))) { - *symp = *inp; symp++; - } else if (insymbol && ((*inp == '\\') && (*(inp+1) > ' '))) { *symp = *(inp+1); symp++; inp++; }

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Ton of "differ in signedness" warnings?
by cade.robinson＠gmail.com 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

When I compile I get a TON of "differ in signedness" warnings. Everything compiles but I am wondering about the warnings. Looking up the error it looks like "just ignore them" is the answer but should I? Why is there something like this: unsigned char *message; or static unsigned char *cause = NULL; I am guessing these are strings - so why the unsigned?

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Hobbit-perl client Oracle question
by rower.master＠gmail.com 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi, My MemReq test is showing the following results: Memory Request Check (warning >= 90%,alert >= 95%). red 6 Request failures, Last Failed size is 3128. Free Space is 23.9M, AVG Free Space is 108.8K, Used Space is 656.1K, AVG Used Space is 2.9K. I have two doubts: 1 - In dbcheck.ini how to define the thresolds for the memreq ? Memory Request Check (warning >= 90%,alert >= 95%). 2- I have 6 request failures but the graph shows me always 0.0, It's percentage measure or a integer value graph?the others values are printing ok. Thanks in advance, Mario Panza.

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Strange DISK messages
by matt＠oddprocess.org 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I've been getting a lot of these lately from several linux clients. It just randomly appears, then goes away: red Wed Mar 3 10:04:11 EST 2010 - Filesystems NOT ok &red 22% /mnt/foo (282464108% used) has reached the PANIC level (98%) Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sdc1 307663800 8986508 283048860 4% / /dev/sdb1 288435168 120484520 153298968 45% /mnt/300gb /dev/sd 3 ] 377855068 75887248 282464108 22% /mnt/foo Any ideas where I should start poking around? I am using the latest Xymon beta client... -- Matthew Daubenspeck http://oddprocess.org Gentoo Linux i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz 13:15:31 up 125 days, 2:43, 5 users, load average: 0.03, 0.08, 0.03

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