July 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Hobbit-mailack
by geoff.hallford＠gmail.com 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi All, Does anyone know of a way to allow my custom email alerts to be used with hobbit-mailack? Currently, the only way to get Xymon 4.3.0-0 beta 2 to acknowledge an alert via email reply is for the subject line to start with "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]". My alerts start off with either "ALERT:" or "RECOVERED:" and not matter where I put the $ACKCODE, it only works if you do it as "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]". I think there should be something in the hobbitserver.cfg to allow people to change this, as we are supposed to be able to customize our alerting and this breaks mailack. Any thoughts? Thanks. P.S. I can't develop in C. Geoff.

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temperature test and graphing
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've not used the name "temperature" for this test because it is obnoxiously long, instead substituting "temp" for the test name. I've since found that Xymon will automatically graph my temperature tests if I use the name "temperature" instead of temp. But, I still have no desire to do that. Would changing it to "temp" require me to edit the source code and recompile, or is this in config files? I can't find anything on the web that necessarily addresses this. Thanks for the pointers! - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkwX2V4ACgkQmb+gadEcsb6nRwCcDmc+VRyFrNYfR1EFo/5eQUK2 vcoAoL3AAfupoePxvVNb2eqXPqNLF3wp =iE5Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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https monitoring
by camis＠mweb.co.za 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi All, Upon building a new instance of Xymon, i ran into a wierd issue which I've been troubleshooting for hours with no luck. I'm trying to monitor HTTPS on a few hosts. Without much luck, I looked around for an external/ public host running https: 91.189.89.234 shipit.ubuntu.com # https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ I got this wierd message: -------------- https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ - Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please Hint: *https://shipit.ubuntu.com/* Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g Server at shipit.ubuntu.com Port 443 -------------- It doesnt make that much sense to me since i did build xymon with SSL support. Anyone got any ideas on how/where to go about troubleshooting this? I have a seperate instance of Xymon that is able to check HTTPS sites without any issue. Regards, Cami

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[Hobbitmon-developer] ackcode in log file
by vadud3＠gmail.com 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Clark, Sean <sean.clark at twcable.com> wrote: >>>>> Acknowledge.log in the logs directory >>>> >>>> Hi Sean, >>>> >>>> That is not really what I am asking for. That is only the log if >>>> someone acknowledges it. >>>> >>>> It is really the alert code that we may or may not ack. Since alerts >>>> gets logged in >>>> notifications.log file. So would be a logical place to have the alert >>>> code in there as well, >>>> even if we never ACK it >>> >>> so looks like I just need to modify the hobbitd/do_alert.c line 148 to >>> 150 to add the cookie if I want it >>> the alert code to show up in notifications.log file. Is there any >>> other places I need to make change >>> as well? >>> >>> 137 if ((alert->color >= 0) && (alert->color < COL_COUNT)) sev >>> = sevtxt[alert->color]; >>> 138 >>> 139 switch (alert->state) { >>> 140 case A_PAGING: >>> 141 case A_ACKED: >>> 142 subjfmt = (include_configid ? "Hobbit [%d] %s:%s >>> %s [cfid:%d]" : "Hobbit [%d] %s:%s %s"); >>> 143 snprintf(subj, sizeof(subj)-1, subjfmt, >>> 144 alert->cookie, alert->hostname, >>> alert->testname, sev, recip->cfid); >>> 145 break; >>> 146 >>> 147 case A_NOTIFY: >>> 148 subjfmt = (include_configid ? "Hobbit %s:%s NOTICE >>> [cfid:%d]" : "Hobbit %s:%s NOTICE"); >>> 149 snprintf(subj, sizeof(subj)-1, subjfmt, >>> 150 alert->hostname, alert->testname, recip->cfid); >>> 151 break; >>> 152 >>> 153 case A_RECOVERED: >>> 154 subjfmt = (include_configid ? "Hobbit %s:%s >>> recovered [cfid:%d]" : "Hobbit %s:%s recovered"); >>> 155 snprintf(subj, sizeof(subj)-1, subjfmt, >>> 156 alert->hostname, alert->testname, recip->cfid); >>> 157 break; >>> 158 >>> 159 case A_NORECIP: >>> 160 case A_DEAD: >>> 161 /* Cannot happen */ >>> 162 break; >>> 163 } >>> >> >> I am still playing with the ackcode/alertcode to put into >> notifications.log. Looks like I actually >> have to modify the code here >> >> 387 if (logfd) { >> 388 init_timestamp(); >> 389 fprintf(logfd, >> "%s %s.%s (%s) %s[%d] %ld %d", >> 390 >> timestamp, alert->hostname, alert->testname, >> 391 >> alert->ip, recip->recipient, recip->cfid, >> 392 >> (long)now, servicecode(alert->testname)); >> 393 if >> (alert->state == A_RECOVERED) { >> 394 >> fprintf(logfd, " %ld\n", (long)(now - alert->eventstart)); >> 395 } >> 396 else { >> 397 >> fprintf(logfd, "\n"); >> 398 } >> 399 fflush(logfd); >> 400 } >> >> I have to add alert->cookie in there. Will confirm it that works > > ok so I applied this patch. > > --- hobbitd/do_alert.c.orig 2010-07-21 13:36:07.000000000 -0400 > +++ hobbitd/do_alert.c 2010-07-21 13:36:32.000000000 -0400 > @@ -414,8 +414,8 @@ > pclose(mailpipe); > if (logfd) { > init_timestamp(); > - fprintf(logfd, "%s > %s.%s (%s) %s[%d] %ld %d", > - timestamp, > alert->hostname, alert->testname, > + fprintf(logfd, "%s %d > %s.%s (%s) %s[%d] %ld %d", > + timestamp, > alert->cookie, alert->hostname, alert->testname, > alert->ip, > recip->recipient, recip->cfid, > (long)now, > servicecode(alert->testname)); > if (alert->state == > A_RECOVERED) { > > Then make clean; make; make install . But I still do not see the > ackcode/alertcode in the notifications.log file. > > Any suggestion? ok, the patch worked. I had to restart hobbitd_alert, doh! Here is the patch as an attachment, if anyone is interested. It puts the same alertcode, that you receive in the subject of your hobbit alert, into the notifications log as well. we feed this log to splunk and it helps with our stat on total number of unique alerts per day -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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https monitoring
by m.hofstra＠detamboer.nl 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Cami [mailto:camis at mweb.co.za] > Verzonden: donderdag 22 juli 2010 15:29 > Aan: xymon at xymon.com > Onderwerp: [xymon] https monitoring > > > Hi All, > > Upon building a new instance of Xymon, i ran into a wierd issue which > I've been troubleshooting for hours with no luck. I'm trying to monitor > HTTPS on a few hosts. Without much luck, I looked around for an external/ > public host running https: > > 91.189.89.234 shipit.ubuntu.com # https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ > > <snip> > Try adding the port number like so: 91.189.89.234 shipit.ubuntu.com # https://shipit.ubuntu.com:443 (works for me when monitoring a vmware status webpage at port 8333) Regards, Marijn

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Help: No graphs in xymon
by udonthi＠cisco.com 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

I am very new to Xymon so bear with me. I am looking into a problem on Xymon 4.2.2. on linux with no luck. Looking for some hints on how to proceed. Graphs show up only in trends column but not in its own column. This is not a custom graph that I am trying to create but the standard setup by Xymon installation e.g., cpu, memory, disk etc. Only cpu has a graph but not any other Columns. When I look in rrd directory I see la.rrd ( for cpu ) and multiple rrd for disk disk,tmp.rrd, disk,var.rrd, disk,root.rrd. So I see 3 magnifying glass on disk page with no graphs to go with it. Any help appreciated, Usha Donthi

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download from xymonton
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi ! I've got a request or a idea for improvement for xymonton: The scripts etc. should be to be download and not only for "Cut&Past" .. i think "Cut&Paste" is mostly problematic and defected, isn't it ? thanks & cheers martin

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Compile failure, Solaris 9 and Xymon 4.2.3
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm getting this error when compiling: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/xymon-4.2.3/bbnet' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE - -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DSunOS -I. -I/usr/share/src/xymon-4.2.3/include - -I/opt/csw/include -DBBGEN_SSL -DBBGEN_LDAP -DBBGEN_LDAP_USESTARTTLS - -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/include -c -o bbtest-net.o bbtest-net.c In file included from /usr/include/rpc/rpcsec_gss.h:25, from /usr/include/rpc/rpc.h:40, from bbtest-net.c:23: /opt/csw/include/gssapi/gssapi.h:2:20: stdint.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [bbtest-net.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/xymon-4.2.3/bbnet' make: *** [bbnet-build] Error 2 ...odd, as I'm recompiling, not compiling for the first time. Presumably this did not happen the first time (which was long ago). I know that stdint.h is not present on Solaris 9 (inttypes.h is similar and is). Does anyone know what one might do to easily get around this? What's weirder is it looks like the mapping to stdint.h comes from some CSW software, which I'd expect would know better. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxHEq8ACgkQmb+gadEcsb5mzACgyLCLBrr6OQTWRlWclRpDClNL GLcAoJvip1YBrbNzfsGZqn5NUhp77pC8 =rQZ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Monitor NetApp SnapVault (the come back)
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi, I'm using snapvault.pl since a couple of month and it works fine ;) Now, I would like to add exceptions. On the same filer : - snapvault from the FilerA should not be older then 48 hours - snapvault from FilerB are disabled : I don't want a red alarm - snapvault from FilerC are done once a week, Hobbit should switch to red if snapvault are older then 170h for example. Is there a way to update this script please :-P ?

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bb-zfs.ksh
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi all I have just added some graphing to the bb-zfs test. See Xymonton/Monitors for more info. http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors Cheers Vernon

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