July 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

RHEL5 client
by cathy.smith＠pnl.gov 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Folks I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server. It is showing up in the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. I don't see where in the configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the client. Can someone point me to the right place? We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it. Thanks for your help. Best regards, Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.2330 Email: cathy.smith at pnl.gov

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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] Project Volunteer List
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken at theunlimitedworld.co.za] > Envoyé : jeudi 1 juillet 2010 13:23 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : RE: [hobbit] Project Volunteer List > > 5) Malcolm Hunter(developers List) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken at theunlimitedworld.co.za] > Sent: 01 July 2010 01:21 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] Project Volunteer List > > 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. I'm using Xymon at work and at home, I'm ready to help. I just know BASH coding, tests, documentations and French translation if needed. Best regards.

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TS: Acknowledging a device
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

I have Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2 running on CentOS 5.4. I have a device with a client running on it that is being removed. I Acknowledge the RED by entering: 1000 minutes and a message describing the event and hit Enter I have tried checking the Ack Multiple box and not checking the box I tried to just enter the info on the bottom line and do Send - still no change. I get back this message: even if done more than once The ICON for conn stays a RED smiley face and never changes to a RED checkmark. What am I doing wrong? L I can DISABLE the device with no problems. 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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MAC address in the client data?
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

All, I don't know if this quirk is peculiar to Solaris or is the same on other flavours of UNIX, but if you are not the root user and you run the ifconfig(1m) command it does not show the MAC address assigned to the interfaces. Here is what I see in Xymon's client data view for one host: [ifconfig] lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ce0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 10.5.2.46 netmask ffffffe0 broadcast 10.5.2.63 If I login as root and run the command I see: lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ce0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 10.5.2.46 netmask ffffffe0 broadcast 10.5.2.63 ether 0:3:ba:96:e6:4f I am currently writing a script to retrieve information from the stored client data and to populate a database with that info. In this manner when I install Xymon on a new server the configuration information is automatically updated in my server database. The question is: How can I get the MAC address? By default the Xymon client is installed and run under the hobbit user ID. Is there any way I can configure the hobbitclient-sunos.sh script to run as root? I guess I could run the ifconfig command using sudo and configure sudo so that it doesn't require a password, but is there any other/better/easier/more elegant ways of doing this? |\/|artin -- Martin Ward Manager, Technical Services DDI:+44 (0) 20 7863 5218 / Fax: +44 (0)20 7863 9999 / www.colt.net <http://www.colt.net/> Colt Technology Services, Unit 12, Powergate Business Park, Volt Avenue, Park Royal, London, NW10 6PW, UK. Help reduce your carbon footprint | Think before you print. Registered in England and Wales, registered number 02452736, VAT number GB 645 4205 50 [Colt Disclaimer] The message is intended for the named addressee only and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone else, nor may it be copied in any way. The contents of this message and its attachments are confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the named addressee and/or have received this message in error, please advise us by e-mailing abuse at colt.net and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Internet communications are not secure and Colt does not accept responsibility for this message, its contents nor responsibility for any viruses. No contracts can be created or varied on behalf of Colt Technology Services, its subsidiaries, group companies or affiliates ("Colt") and any other party by email communications unless expressly agreed in writing with such other party. Please note that incoming emails will be automatically scanned to eliminate potential viruses and unsolicited promotional emails. For more information refer to www.colt.net or contact us on +44(0)20 7390 3900

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by stephencouch＠hotmail.com 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

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rrd history chart disappears under conn, memory and disk after 24 hours
by w17682＠motorola.com 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

Hi, I installed and configured xymon-4.3.0-beta2. Everything looks fine. But there is one strange thing beyond my understood. The rrd history chart disappears under tests/columns of conn, disk and memory after running 24 hours. But I can see these charts under column trends. No time effect to the tests/columns of cpu and my custom tests. These rrd charts will stay there as far as time goes. If I add a new client, I can see these rrd charts under conn, disk and memory during the first 24 hours (or the first day). Anyone sees the same phenomenon? Did I miss something in configuration? Thank you in advance. -- Zhongyu Chen

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Status unchanged message seems incorrect
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

A client had a recent power outage that affected some equipment. While going over the Xymon graphs etc, I was able to clearly correlate the outage times with the connectivity losses we experienced, but I noticed something strange. Even though the graph for the conn test (for example) clearly shows that connectivity was lost from about 4:30pm Friday until about 4:00am Saturday, and it is about 9:30am now, the report just above the graph says "Status unchanged in 73 days,21 hours, 55 minutes" which is clearly incorrect. (see attached image) Since the graph shows that it started responding to IMCP at about 4:00am shouldn't that message say something more like "Status unchanged in 5 hours 30 minutes" I'd appreciate any insight... Thanks -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC

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VM Ware MOnitoring.
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi Guys I need to monitor a VM environment to eliminate it from some performance problems at a client. Has anybody got some tips for me on how to get this right? Is there scripts? Anything I should be aware of? Just point me and I will sort it out. Regards Neil

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How to find that 1 host with no tests?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi, So I've got this in my bbtest statistics: "Hosts with no tests: 1" - how do I find that one host? I've tried to track down "noconn" hosts and hosts with "0.0.0.0" as IP - but cant seem to find it. Any way to debug? /melgaard

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debug smsplus.sh
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi ! I want to use smsplus.sh from xymonton for SMS-Alerting http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/alerts:smsplus but didn't get it to work :-( So in the notification.log everyhthing seem to be ok Thu Jul 22 11:13:35 2010 web01.http (191.179.248.33) "sms/49176555666667 at sms.desy.de" 1279790015 600 (sms/Telenumber at sms.desy.de is the right way to our sms-gateway) but unfortunatley didn't get a sms :-( It seems that the mail/sms didn't send from my xymon-server, because there are no message in the maillog ... So how can i debug alerting with sms ? e.g .. could i send a sms-alert smsplus.sh "per hand" .. thanks & cheers martin

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