March 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Xymon Polling
by Jorge.Lopes＠media24.com 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Hi We were wondering if it was possible to have a double pole ( or increase the number of failed polls) of a system/Link before reporting it down/unreachable. Often we get a micro line drop due to the slow bandwidth in Africa and this would certainly reduce the number of False Positives we are getting on the system Regards, Jorge Lopes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email and its contents are subject to an email legal notice that can be viewed at: http://www.naspers.com/email/disclaimer.html Should you be unable to access the link provided, please email us for a copy at Helpdesk at Media24.com. Hierdie e-pos en sy inhoud is onderhewig aan 'n regskennisgewing oor elektroniese pos wat gelees kan word by http://www.naspers.com/epos/vrywaring.html 'n Afskrif kan aangevra word by Helpdesk at Media24.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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question about "unknown DS name 'PrinterTonerCartrid'"
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I deciced to change my status line from Printer Cartridge Counter = $SNMPTONERCOUNTER to Printer Toner Cartridge Counter = $SNMPTONERCOUNTER and started getting the dreaded error "unknown DS name 'PrinterTonerCartrid' Q1) Is is possible to dump the file edit the name from 'PrinterCartridgeCo' to 'PrinterTonerCartrid' and the restore? My status line look as follows: LINE="status $TARGETHOST.Prn $COLOR `date` Printer Counter = $SNMPPAGECOUNTER Printer Cartridge Counter = $SNMPTONERCOUNTER Total Pages Printed Since $SINCE When We Started Counting = $PAGESPRINTED Delta Pages Printed = $DELTAPAGESPRINTED " All I want to plot is the Delta Pages Printer = line. Q2) Is there a way to tell rrd to ignore other lines that I added to the status? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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bbcombotest patch
by cade.robinson＠gmail.com 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

bbcombotest in 4.4.0 (probably 4.3.0 too) was failing for me with the error: Could not access hobbitd board, error 0 I found that line: if ((hobbitdresult != BB_OK) || (board == NULL)) { always evaled true due to board being set to NULL at the start of the function and then never being set again. Also I didn't like that a yellow status didn't trip the combo test color, so that is the last part. So here is a patch: Index: bbcombotest.c =================================================================== --- bbcombotest.c (revision 6223) +++ bbcombotest.c (working copy) @@ -209,20 +209,16 @@ int result = COL_CLEAR; char *pattern, *found, *colstr; - if (board == NULL) { sendreturn_t *sres = newsendreturnbuf(1, NULL); hobbitdresult = sendmessage("hobbitdboard fields=hostname,testname,color", NULL, BBTALK_TIMEOUT, sres); + board = getsendreturnstr(sres, 1); if ((hobbitdresult != BB_OK) || (board == NULL)) { board = ""; *errptr += sprintf(*errptr, "Could not access hobbitd board, error %d\n", hobbitdresult); return COL_CLEAR; } - else { - board = getsendreturnstr(sres, 1); - } freesendreturnbuf(sres); - } pattern = (char *)malloc(1 + strlen(hostname) + 1 + strlen(testname) + 1 + 1); sprintf(pattern, "\n%s|%s|", hostname, testname); @@ -275,7 +271,7 @@ } if (*color == -1) return -1; - else return ( (*color == COL_GREEN) || (*color == COL_YELLOW) || (*color == COL_CLEAR) ); + else return ( (*color == COL_GREEN) || (*color == COL_CLEAR) ); }

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Changing ports.
by kii.noda＠gmail.com 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi guys, I have a service that, upon restart, has changed the port that it listens to. I've been monitoring it like this: --- cut here --- PORT "LOCAL=%(0:50051)$" STATE=LISTEN min=1 col=red "TEXT=bgtTagger_r2/listen" --- and here --- Is there any way that I could still monitor this program given the fact that it changes the port on next restart? Basically, besides my 'PROC bgtTagger_r2 1' I'd still like to check that it's also listening on a port without knowing a priori which port that is. Is there a way to achieve this? TIA, -- kN

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TS - red for Printer?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

I watch multiple printers and all are on the same subnet . I added a 128.170.70.88 called Printer088. >From the command line and my PC I can ping the device: [root at monitor1 ~]# ping 128.170.70.88 PING 128.170.70.88 (128.170.70.88) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 128.170.70.88: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=1.67 ms 64 bytes from 128.170.70.88: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=1.71 ms 64 bytes from 128.170.70.88: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=1.46 ms --- 128.170.70.88 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.467/1.617/1.713/0.112 ms [root at monitor1 ~]# I added the device yesterday afternoon to Xymon (running CentOS with 4.3.0-0.beta2). bb-hosts entry: group-compress <h4>Building R</h4> 128.170.70.227 Printer227 # conn 128.170.70.228 Printer228 # conn 128.170.70.88 Printer088 # conn The ICON is RED for the device: Tue Mar 2 07:46:07 2010 conn NOT ok Service conn on Printer088 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 201 poll periods (60424 seconds) 128.170.35.103 is unreachable Status unchanged in 16 hours, 47 minutes Status message received from 128.170.1.151 <http://monitor1.csw.l-3com.com/xymon-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=Printer088 &service=tcp:conn&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&disp=Printer088&nosta le&color=red&graph_start=1267368435&graph_end=1267541235&action=menu> The IP address that it says in "unreachable" does not have anything device associated with it either in the bb-hosts or DNS. Why would this address be part of the test and not the actual IP address???? I have not special characters in the line other than a TAB between the IP and the device name just like all the other ones? Firewall rules should not play a part as all are on the same subnet and I am able to ping the device from the command line. BTW: I have three systems doing monitoring of this device and all are the same Xymon release on CentOS 5.3 or 5.4. All of them show the exact same type of report. Could there be some corruption somewhere? What can I do to troubleshoot Xymon? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D L-3 Communication Systems West 640 North 2200 West P.O. Box 16850 Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Phone (801) 594-3030 Cell (801) 231-7230 eFax (413) 480-6873 D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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[hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Thanks Martin, Is there a way using the same method to cause the alert to activate. For example, I want a host to activate on disk% has reached 98%, and go ahead and send a test page to my cell phone so I can check the format. Thanks again....James -----Original Message----- From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming at desy.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:37 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems > also sending out a test alert /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --debug --test hostip test cheers, martin On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, James Wade wrote: > Thanks, I'll test out the SMS Format. > > Can someone give me some pointers on checking the configuration > file and also sending out a test alert. I've looked through the > man page and tried a few things, but it didn't seem to work. > > Thanks...James > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob McBroom [mailto:mailinglist0 at skurfer.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:57 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Troubleshooting Alerts -- Having Problems > > On 2009-Apr-14, at 10:00 AM, James Wade wrote: > >> Also, We received Cell Phones in place of the pagers, and >> now when I send messages to the cell phones, the cell phone >> doesn't display it properly. It's to much data for the cell phones >> they gave us. They are Nokia 6085's. When I get a text it >> says 1 of 10..or .. missing text.. I'm guessing I'm going >> to have to filter all my Hobbit alerts now. > > There is a FORMAT option for alerts. In particular, you probably want > "FORMAT=SMS". See the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page and the example in > the alerts file itself. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > Gruss Martin Flemming ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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PROCS turned purple
by Robert-Manocchia＠IDEXX.com 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

I am running Xymon version 4.2.0-1 and I have started to see the PROC column go purple within the past few hours for just two servers. The last report came from these two servers about 3 hours ago and I've seen nothing since. Everything else is reporting fine on both those servers, it's just the PROC column that is purple. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks Bob Manocchia

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how to get dnsreg to work .. ?
by meepmeep＠fantasya.org 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi I tried to get dnsreg script working, and it's a complete failure .. Here what's I've done so far : 1/ Creating dnsreg script in server/ext/dnsreg (the one from xymon.com, with a little modification). My version : #!/bin/sh # Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire. # # NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query. # Requires GNU date. # Should run only once a day. BBHTAG=dnsreg COLUMN=$BBHTAG NOW=`date "+%s"` WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000` # 10 days ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000` # 5 day /home/xmon/server/bin/bbhostgrep dnsreg | while read L do set $L DOMAIN=$1 EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[ ]*//' | cut -f1 -d' '`" EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"` if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME then COLOR=red elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME then COLOR=yellow else COLOR=green fi $BB $BBDISP "status+12h $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date` Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING " done exit 0 2/ Modify "server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg" to add : [dnsreg] ENVFILE /home/xmon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD /home/xmon/server/ext/dnsreg LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-dnsreg.log INTERVAL 5m 3/ Modify bb-hosts to add domain with dnsreg test: group-compress <font size="+1">Servers</font> ... [My classic test, working great] ... groupe-compress <font size="+1">Domains</font> 0.0.0.0 firstdomain.tld # noconn dnsreg 0.0.0.0 second.tld # noconn dnsreg 0.0.0.0 etc.tld # noconn dnsreg 0.0.0.0 etcetc.tld # noconn dnsreg Log is still empty, I try to restart/reload hobbit.sh. Nothing show on the website concerning the "Domains" (all others tests are still showing). Moreover, I would like to test the script on a standalone way, but I haven't found the way to do it (like using hobbitd_alert --test) I'm using xymon 4.3.0.0beta2 on debian, and all other tests are working great :) -- Nicolas G. / meepmeep

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