May 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Disk test, NFS and FTP queries
by lserena＠gmail.com 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

Hello List, I'm rather familiar with BigBrother but new to Xymon. My Xymon server 4.2.3 runs on CentOS and my monitored nodes are a mix of Solaris, Windows, Cisco, and NetApp hosts. Q1. Is there a way to avoid the Solaris 10 virtual filesystems (i.e./etc/dfs/sharetab) from being listed/graphed in the disk test? (possibly via conf setting on the Xymon client, rather than on the server) Also, the web page shows seven filesystems, whereas the RRD graphs show nine of them... (those 7 plus /devices and /var/run). How do I get rid of them? Q2. I manage to monitor NFS mounted filesystems (from a NetApp filer) via an external script from deadcat.net, but is there a way to get them show up in the disk test/column? This way I get to: a. save a column ;-) b. have all the filesystems shown under one roof c. have NFS filesystems automagically graphed Q3. Is there a functionality similar to the BB www/notes html files, and a template that matches the current xymon fonts/style? Or, where can I add custom info about my monitored nodes? I.e. serial numbers, helpdesk contacts, etc... Q4. I have had to enable ftp on one Solaris 10 box to allow it to just ftp itself (don't ask!), and therefore I configured /etc/hosts.allow as follows: [actarus]$ grep ftp /etc/hosts.allow in.ftpd: actarus [actarus]$ Now, on the bb-hosts on the Xymon server, if I put: 10.11.12.13 actarus # http://actarus/ ssh !telnet !ftp !smtp it gets RED, telling me that FTP is up and if I put 10.11.12.13 actarus # http://actarus/ ssh !telnet ftp !smtp# it gets YELLOW with the following message: Service ftp on actarus is not OK : Unexpected service response In fact, if I ftp actarus from the Xymon server cli, I get: $ ftp actarus Connected to actarus.boing.com. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection ftp> quit $ Is there a way around this? Thank in advance for your help Loris

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bb-rep.sh & bb-snapshot.sh
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Hi all - I'm running into a problem creating the availability report and the snapshot on 4.3.0-beta2. Every time I run either command I get an "Internal Server Error". The apache logs show "Premature end of script headers" and the syslog shows that a buffer overflow was detected. The system its on is a Ubuntu 9.04 64b server. I have gone through the archives and based on what i did find i double-checked permissions(all were good).. Any ideas? The other option I have is to try to recreate the report manually.. Any ideas what datasets go into the report? thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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ipv6 support
by vadud3＠gmail.com 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Does hobbit support ipv6 addressing? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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TS - Hobbit ==> SNMP
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

I have installed Hobbit on a Dell R-610 on CentOS 5.4. I have installed Net:SNMP so that I can query a MIB. I am looking for a good setup guide/HOW-TO to integrate a test to controlling an ICON on a device. I must be searching in the archive for the wrong string. I want to test a MIB or MIBs and then trigger a change in the ICON red, yellow, green e.g. temperature of a device, or reserve power in a UPS I am also looking for a GOOD J HOW-TO for setting up DEVMON on the Xymon server. It seems that it can read the bb-hosts file to find the devices to monitor. But then again, I read that you have to edit a configuration file for the device and the test to run. I could not find a good testing info source of the options that are available. If you use the config file does it then only test the devices in the configs file vs. the bb-hosts file? 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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Solaris 10 x86 Client mis-reporting available disk space
by wiskbroom＠hotmail.com 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

I've just installed xymon latest onto a Solaris X86 client, and it is reporting warning levels of 90% disk use, when in fact the machine is only at 60%. I've been unable to find where and how this is defined/set, and same goes for swap and CPU (although these two ARE NOT a problem right now). Thank you in advance, .vp

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[hobbit] Endpoint Dynamic IP
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 31 May '10

31 May '10

If the IP changes use DNS. If it's a series of IPs add the testip flag at the end of the host. On 5/31/10, Albert G. Rojas <albert.rojas at noiptel.com> wrote: > We have various remote Quintum Tenor endpoints with dynamic IP internet > service. > > > > All Quintums register every 300 seconds to our Brekeke SIP Server. Meaning > that every 300 seconds the SIP Server IP info gets updated. > > > > How can XYMON use the IP address information reflected on the SIP Server to > monitor our Quintum network? > > > > Thanks > > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill

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Endpoint Dynamic IP
by albert.rojas＠noiptel.com 31 May '10

31 May '10

We have various remote Quintum Tenor endpoints with dynamic IP internet service. All Quintums register every 300 seconds to our Brekeke SIP Server. Meaning that every 300 seconds the SIP Server IP info gets updated. How can XYMON use the IP address information reflected on the SIP Server to monitor our Quintum network? Thanks

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ASP.NET script
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 31 May '10

31 May '10

Hi Guys and gals I modified the IISHealth Script found at Deadcat to monitor ASP.NET performance Counters. I don't know how many of you will find it usefull but if you guys want I can upload for you. Let me know if there is any interest. Regards Neil

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Xymon crash after adding too many hosts?
by j.sansford＠ntlworld.com 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hi there, We run Xymon 4.2.3, using both the proxy and the server in a multisite configuration. We recently added 15 new hosts to our configuration, and since doing so the server application appears to keep crashing. Running "ps -ef | grep hobbitlaunch" shows that this process no longer exists. Looking in the log files, it appears "rrd status" kept terminating with status 1. Since removing these hosts from the configuration, the server has managed to start up again. I don't believe there is anything strange in the definition of these hosts - so have we reached a memory limit or otherwise in the application, and if so is there a fix for this? Such as increasing a variable somewhere? Here's the output of bbtest if it helps: bbtest-net version 4.2.3 SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20416 Statistics: Hosts total : 159 Hosts with no tests : 4 Total test count : 332 Status messages : 333 Alert status msgs : 0 Transmissions : 4 DNS statistics: # hostnames resolved : 189 # succesful : 154 # failed : 1 # calls to dnsresolve : 332 TCP test statistics: # TCP tests total : 174 # HTTP tests : 34 # Simple TCP tests : 140 # Connection attempts : 174 # bytes written : 6828 # bytes read : 585619 TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 97953.286121 - Service definitions loaded 97953.288188 0.002067 Tests loaded 97953.299493 0.011304 DNS lookups completed 97953.328789 0.029296 Test engine setup completed 97953.344493 0.015703 TCP tests completed 97965.450124 12.105631 PING test completed (155 hosts) 97965.451495 0.001370 PING test results sent 97965.454795 0.003299 Test result collection completed 97965.454907 0.000112 LDAP test engine setup completed 97965.454908 0.000000 LDAP tests executed 97965.454909 0.000000 LDAP tests result collection completed 97965.454909 0.000000 DNS tests executed 97965.458490 0.003580 NTP tests executed 97965.572899 0.114409 Test results transmitted 97965.577715 0.004815 bbtest-net completed 97965.581260 0.003545 Thanks! TIME TOTAL 12.295138

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xymon add-ons
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 28 May '10

28 May '10

Is there a place I could go to see what other add-on scripts that are available, other than deadcat? Thanks ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email _____________________________________________________________________

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