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Question: Which Xymon project administration options you like ?
by tjyang2001＠gmail.com 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi, All To share the project admin load, we need to decide what options we should go with. A. Two project admins Henrik + one from us B. Three project admins Henrik + two from us C. Five project admins Henrik + 4 from us. I think this most important questions need to be answered. With this question answered, we can then proceed to other project todos. So what is your answer ? PS: Assuming Henrik want to be part of project admin. PS2: Assuming Henrik doesn't mind options B and C. tj -- T.J. Yang

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[hobbit] Input needed from all of you.
by medavian＠gmail.com 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Sorry, Also use these at fullscreen, no borders, or menu bars. Darrin Sent from my BlackBerry® from Optus -----Original Message----- From: medavian at gmail.com Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:32:52 To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Reply-To: medavian at gmail.com Subject: Re: [hobbit] Input needed from all of you. Hey all, 2048x1152 1280x1024 ------Original Message------ From: Neil Franken To: hobbit at hswn.dk ReplyTo: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Input needed from all of you. Sent: Jul 5, 2010 19:09 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 Sent from my BlackBerry® from Optus

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[hobbit] Input needed from all of you.
by medavian＠gmail.com 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Hey all, 2048x1152 1280x1024 ------Original Message------ From: Neil Franken To: hobbit at hswn.dk ReplyTo: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Input needed from all of you. Sent: Jul 5, 2010 19:09 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 Sent from my BlackBerry® from Optus

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[hobbit] "virtual hosts" for combined graphs?
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

I think you should be able to put the graph definition into server/etc/hobbitgraph.cfg with a suitable name, then put that name into both the "TEST2RRD" & "GRAPHS" environment variables in server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg. Then send a suitable status message to xymon and the graph shows up. I've just tried this on my laptop: mash two existing graph definitions together (cpu freq and battery capacity) into one called "batfreq". Add "batfreq" to "TEST2RRD" & "GRAPHS". Send test message: server/bin/bb localhost "status lorien.batfreq green `date`" A short time later a new column shows up called batfreq. Clicking through thre green dot shows a single graph containing both battery capacity and 2 cpu frequency lines (dual-core cpu). In your case, I think you might be able to get the combined graph to show up for each server by sending multiple status messages: server/bin/bb localhost "status server1.xxx green `date`" server/bin/bb localhost "status server2.xxx green `date`" etc... all from one script. Or just define a new server name in bb-hosts and send one message. Either way, you'll probably want to have a regular status message going to Xymon so that the new column doesn't go purple. Ralph Mitchell On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Walter van Loon < hobbit at general-failure.com> wrote: > I created a small script that scrapes info from several hosts/rrd's > (connections to a particular IIS site) and puts it in a combined graph > (see attached sample). I'm curious if it's possible to somehow create a > "virtual host" in hobbit and use the hobbitgraph.cgi functions to create > the graphs so I can also have the zoom & history functions. > > This is the script that created the attached graph: > > #!/bin/bash > > timestamp=COMMENT:Updated\\:`date|sed 's/:/\\\\:/g'` > > rrdtool graph combined.png \ > --imgformat=PNG \ > --title="Connections to xxxxxx.xxx.xx Last 48 Hours" \ > --base=1000 \ > --height=120 \ > --width=576 \ > -s e-48h \ > --slope-mode \ > --lower-limit=0 \ > --vertical-label="# connections" \ > --step 576 \ > > 'DEF:a=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/server1/iisinfo.online.han.nl.rrd:realmempct:AVERAGE' > \ > 'AREA:a#0000CC:server1\t' \ > 'GPRINT:a:AVERAGE:Avg\: %7.0lf %s\t' \ > 'GPRINT:a:MAX:Max\: %7.0lf %s\j' \ > > 'DEF:b=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/server2/iisinfo.online.han.nl.rrd:realmempct:AVERAGE' > \ > 'STACK:b#0000FF:server2\t' \ > 'GPRINT:b:AVERAGE:Avg\: %7.0lf %s\t' \ > 'GPRINT:b:MAX:Max\: %7.0lf %s\j' \ > > 'DEF:c=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/server3/iisinfo.online.han.nl.rrd:realmempct:AVERAGE' > \ > 'STACK:c#3333FF:server3\t' \ > 'GPRINT:c:AVERAGE:Avg\: %7.0lf %s\t' \ > 'GPRINT:c:MAX:Max\: %7.0lf %s\j' \ > > 'DEF:d=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/server4/iisinfo.online.han.nl.rrd:realmempct:AVERAGE' > \ > 'STACK:d#6666FF:server4\t' \ > 'GPRINT:d:AVERAGE:Avg\: %7.0lf %s\t' \ > 'GPRINT:d:MAX:Max\: %7.0lf %s\j' \ > > 'DEF:e=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/server5/iisinfo.online.han.nl.rrd:realmempct:AVERAGE' > \ > 'STACK:e#9999FF:server5\t' \ > 'GPRINT:e:AVERAGE:Avg\: %7.0lf %s\t' \ > 'GPRINT:e:MAX:Max\: %7.0lf %s\j' \ > > 'DEF:f=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/server6/iisinfo.online.han.nl.rrd:realmempct:AVERAGE' > \ > 'STACK:f#CCCCFF:server6\t' \ > 'GPRINT:f:AVERAGE:Avg\: %7.0lf %s\t' \ > 'GPRINT:f:MAX:Max\: %7.0lf %s\j' \ > 'CDEF:total=a,b,+,c,+,d,+,e,+,f,+' \ > 'LINE1:total#FF0000:Total\t' \ > 'GPRINT:total:AVERAGE:Avg\: %7.0lf %s\t' \ > 'GPRINT:total:MAX:Max\: %7.0lf %s\j' \ > "$timestamp" > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] Any idea on a 4.3.0 third beta (or rc?) timeframe?
by tjyang2001＠gmail.com 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > In <4C2A1897.6080700 at mcclatchyinteractive.com> Tom Georgoulias <tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> writes: > >>On 06/28/2010 04:28 AM, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>> There is a developers list for the hobbitmon project on SF. A number of people >>> are subscribed, including people with commit access. >>> >>> However, there is currently only one project admin for the SF project, Henrik >>> (which means no more committers can be added at present, and some features >>> that may assist in collaboration can't be enabled). > >>Is Henrik still interested in being the single admin, or should he be >>contacted and asked if another person can be added in that role? I >>recall postings where he described health issues and also a desire to >>stop working so much on xymon, and I don't fault him for wanting to take >>a break. However, it would be nice to know if he plans to work on the >>project again, or if he's done with it and wants to move onto other >>things. I've been around open source long enough to know how the >>process works and I respect the developers who put time in on their >>projects. Sure xymon works fine now, but if something changes in a >>distro one or more of us are using and it breaks xymon, we'll all have >>to make a choice on how to move forward. It would be best for the >>community as a whole if we had an idea of where things stood and where >>they might go. > > > Tom has pretty much hit the nail on the head here. > > It's true that I have pretty much stopped working on Xymon development. > I am not quite sure why, but for some time it has just seemed to be > more of a tedious chore than something I would look forward to. I think > the task of getting all the documentation lined up for 4.3.0 (that is the > main outstanding issue for that release) just doesn't seem all that > appealing... > > So I would really welcome someone who would be willing to take over the > project management / admin tasks. Even if it were just as a co-admin, > it would still be nice to have someone else with the enthusiasm that > is necessary to push the project forward. > > For me, the ideal would be if I could focus on writing code instead of > running the project. > > So if you have the ambition and energy of trying to run this project, > please speak up. Choosing a (co-)admin for Xymon is an important > decision, and one that definitely needs some community involvement. > All of you must feel comfortable with the person/persons we choose > for this task. > I like to offer myself as co-admin candidate. Let me know if all of you like to understand more about me. Can we have more than 2 project admins ? tj > > Regards, > Henrik > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > -- T.J. Yang

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[hobbit] Any idea on a 4.3.0 third beta (or rc?) timeframe?
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

On 06/30/2010 04:44 PM, Henrik Størner wrote: > Tom has pretty much hit the nail on the head here. > It's true that I have pretty much stopped working on Xymon development. > I am not quite sure why, but for some time it has just seemed to be > more of a tedious chore than something I would look forward to. I think > the task of getting all the documentation lined up for 4.3.0 (that is the > main outstanding issue for that release) just doesn't seem all that > appealing... > > So I would really welcome someone who would be willing to take over the > project management / admin tasks. Even if it were just as a co-admin, > it would still be nice to have someone else with the enthusiasm that > is necessary to push the project forward. > > For me, the ideal would be if I could focus on writing code instead of > running the project. > > So if you have the ambition and energy of trying to run this project, > please speak up. Choosing a (co-)admin for Xymon is an important > decision, and one that definitely needs some community involvement. > All of you must feel comfortable with the person/persons we choose > for this task. > > > Regards, > Henrik > > It's great to see Henrik responding to messages (greetings!). I was certainly hoping that he would pick up development at some point, but as time went on it seemed more and more unlikely. I had thought of broaching this subject myself some time ago, but I got a new job and my bandwidth is now pretty much all sucked up there. For those in the group that may not know... I wrote the back-end code for the System z operating systems (z/OS, z/VM and z/VSE). So, if you see that indicated in the source, it's my fault... :) I still owe TJ wiki entries... :( There's not much I plan to add to the clients at this point (which I also wrote), so as long as the client backend protocol doesn't change "we're all good", as they say. I'm glad to see this renewed activity. -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 - April 15-19, 2011 Colorado Springs, CO

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An invite for a test drive of Xymon on Google host
by tjyang2001＠gmail.com 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Hi, all Once we have new project administrator(s), I like to propose we switch to Google host for the Xymon project. There are a few features I think Google host will help. 1. Less ad workspace compare to sourceforge.net 2. Projects can have 3 levels of privilege. 2.1 project owners 2.2 project committers 2.3 project contributors. 3. It support SVN or Mercurial. 4. It can hookup to Google groups(users,developer and code-commit) 5. source commit and comment can trigger an email to google groups. 6. Built-in Wiki and issue tracker. 7. It is fast. 8. it has web-hook to trigger C.I. software like buildbot or Hudson. Image your xymon build machine at home will start building new version of xymon when developer commit a new change ! if you are interested to test out xymon on google host,please let me know. I can setup you up with different types of project privileges. But looks like you need to have a google account first. Regards tj -- T.J. Yang

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Project Volunteer List
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Hi All Ok before all our responses get lost in the mail I have composed a list of people that volunteered so far. Please add your name if you not on here. 1) TJ Yang 2) Neil Franken 3) Buchan Milne (via Developers List) 4) Lennon, Padraig I think TJ Yang will probably be co admin unless we want more than 1 co-admin. With all due respect to all we will need to finalise this so we can get some rubber on the road. So I suggest that we close the list of by Monday next week? Once this list in finalized we can then break up the remaining work and get down to brass tacks. Regards Neil PS. I will post this on the Developers list as well.

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Windows Forward & Reverse Lookup Zones
by JFerrill＠ApproSystems.com 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Within Xymon, Is there a way to monitor or alert DNS host records that aren't consistent between Forward & Reverse Zones? Example, a retired server that wasn't properly deleted from DNS's forward or reverse zones.. Joshua C. Ferrill Systems Engineer II 225.490.2521 jferrill at approsystems.com <mailto:areeves at approsystems.com>

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dell-warranty from xymonton
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Hi ! I've got a problem to run this addon .. :-( http://www.trantor.org/xymonton/doku.php/monitors:dell-warranty In general it's works but in detail, from commandline it still works great [pal31] ~/client $ bin/bbcmd ext/check_dell-warranty.py 2010-07-01 11:17:18 Using default environment file /usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg The test-icon is green and show all right informations, but if it runs from clientlaunch.cfg, i've got this error in the logfile Invalid serial number: exiting! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext/check_dell-warranty.py", line 164, in ? serial_number = extract_serial_number() File "/usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext/check_dell-warranty.py", line 78, in extract_serial_number sys.exit(WARNING) NameError: global name 'WARNING' is not defined .. and the test becomes purple one day after .. What's going wrong ? .. unfortunately python isn't very well for debugging :-( Thanks & Cheers Martin

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