July 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

New project page on Sourceforge
by henrik＠hswn.dk 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

If you try to visit the Xymon project page on Sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ you'll get a "404 Page not found" result. This is not because Xymon is dead. It is because Sourceforge has finally been nudged into renaming the project from "hobbitmon" to "xymon". It only took a few years to get them to do that ... So for your next Xymon download, go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/ Regards, Henrik

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Devmon Templates
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi all Anybody got any devmon templates for a Brocade 5100 fc switch that they would be willing to share? Thanks Vernon

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Depends Question
by pnixon＠gmail.com 07 Jul '10

07 Jul '10

Hey all, I'm trying to get depends working, but it's not working the way I expect it to. <bb-hosts snippet> 10.18.16.172 standby # conn testip depends=(conn:eto/conn) 10.18.16.174 eto # conn ssh snmp testip eto is currently red, but standby, which is down as well, is also red. anything specific wrong with my depends statement? Any reason why conn wouldn't be able to depend on something else? Thanks! --Patrick

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CPU, Disk and memory message format to obtain valuable Graphs
by Bart.Gillis＠cegeka.be 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hello, I am developing another windows client based on the nagios nrpe plugin. The script is based on the checkwin monitor that you can find in http://code.google.com/p/checkwin/ Tests are going well but I have a problem with the graphs that are generated for the disks, cpu and memory values. Can anyone help me with the format that I have to send to the xymon server? I don't know on which parameters the rrd files are generated for these particular tests. Thanks in advance Bart Gillis

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[Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead
by tomg＠mcclatchyinteractive.com 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

On 06/30/2010 05:31 PM, Henrik Størner wrote: > I agree that Xymon development has been pretty much non-existant the > past couple of years. A number of things have conspired to make it > so, but the short of it is that I cannot seem to put together the > necessary energy to complete the 4.3.0 release. And that kind of > puts a stop to the next steps. > > Is anyone interested in taking > over the formal responsibility (if such a thing exists) of > maintaining and/or developing Xymon ? Although I still think > of Xymon as "my baby", I wouldn't mind someone else taking charge > of the project - in fact, it might be the change that could get me > away from the non-productive project-management chores and into a > somewhat more active developer role. Before a new admin is chosen, I think it would be a good idea to create a list of the tasks and responsibilities that the volunteer(s) would be taking on. It doesn't have to be a complete list, but just something that covers the major points. If you want to be an active developer (and I hope that you do, as you know the code better than anyone and can help others get up to speed), it would be nice to know what the admin(s) should be helping you with. Tom

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Xymon client design (was Xymon is practically dead)
by tjyang2001＠gmail.com 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi, Tom Hope you don't mind I changed the subject and cc to hobbitmon-developer on this topic. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Tom Georgoulias <tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote: > On 07/02/2010 05:47 AM, Neil Franken wrote: > >> Xymon is just one part of the equation for me. I see a lot of >> potential for Xymon in the Windows world but the BBWin client is well >> a very quiet project as well. I am not sure yet if we would maybe >> fork the code or create a new client. At this point I would suggest >> that maybe we look at a Java based client for xymon so we can run on >> a huge variety of platforms with one client. Anyway the whole client >> is a whole different ball game. > > I would not be in favor of a java based client, the current design is much > better on unix systems. It's one of the reasons xymon works well. > I can understand why Neil has this idea, it flashed in brain before. Why not write once and run every where ? The idea is good but there is resources needed to convert hobbit client into java. Who are going to do it ? Back to the existing hobbit client implementation. I do have concerns about hobbitclient-OS??.sh shell script's programming style. There is no check return status of system command it call and there is no error handling when system command faild. I got many purple alert when one of the system command failed or didn't finish in time. tj > Tom > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > -- T.J. Yang

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Multi-rrd graphs
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi all OK, I am probably pushing the envelope here, but maybe it's possible. Lets assume I am collecting data about some disks. Or maybe we don't assume. I am doing it. As data, I am collecting % Cache hits % Reads % Writes Using split NCV, I get a bunch of files. cache,vol01.rrd cache,vol02.rrd cache,vol03.rrd cache,vol04.rrd read,vol01.rrd read,vol02.rrd read,vol03.rrd read,vol04.rrd write,vol01.rrd write,vol02.rrd write,vol03.rrd write,vol04.rrd Using the standard graph definitions, I can get all the cache values on one graph, all the read values on another etc. etc. Is there a way to group them by the volume name? So I end up with a graph of cache, read and write for vol1 on one graph. The cache, read and write for vol1 on another etc. etc. Of course, in reality, I have far more than vol01-04, and they are not all volXX either, so hard coding the hobbitgraph.cfg entry isn't an option. Possible? Regards Vernon.

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[hobbit] Input needed from all of you.
by Rense＠multiscan.nl 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi Neil, My most commonly used resolution is 1280x1024. cheers, Rense -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken at theunlimitedworld.co.za] Verzonden: maandag 5 juli 2010 11:10 Aan: hobbit at hswn.dk Onderwerp: [hobbit] Input needed from all of you. Hi All As we are in a planning stage I need YOUR help. One of the things we have on our hit list is the web interface(might be for a later release). Here is how you can help. Send me the resolutions of the screen you most commonly use to view your Xymon pages. This information will help greatly with the development going further. Regards Neil To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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BB-agents with Xymon?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi, Is it possible to use BB-agents directly with Xymon? So I can shut down our BB-server and direct the agents to our Xymon-installation? Regards, Carl

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SPLITNCV
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi all Can anybody point me to some documentation about how to use SPLITNCV. (Or perhaps you can answer my questions) In the mailing list I have seen it as SPLITNCV, SPLIT_NCV and SPLIT-NCV. Which is it? As in, what goes into hobbitserver.cfg? What version of Xymon was it introduced? I can't seem to get it working here, so I might need an upgrade, or was this feature only ever delivered in a patch? Regards Vernon

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