July 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

the opposite of DEPENDS?
by mailinglist0＠skurfer.com 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

I have three LDAP servers. Searches can go on happily as long as one of the three is working, so what I’d like is something like this: LDAP running on all three servers: green LDAP running on one or two servers: yellow LDAP running on zero servers: red I’m sure I could write a server-side script for this, but there are service checks already in place that I’d like to use. Is that possible? Am I missing something obvious in the man pages? Thanks. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>

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Graphs gone crazy
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Hi Tim Thanks for those pointers. I have moved the problem along, in so much as I realise now what's borked. Still not sure how to fix it, but I have a theory about why it's broken. Appears rrd is borked. To replicate what's happening, I modified your command, and tried to recreate a cpu graph (using live data) rrdtool graph splat.png \ "DEF:avg=./la.rrd:la:AVERAGE" \ "CDEF:la=avg,100,/" \ "AREA:la#00CC00:la" \ "GPRINT:la:LAST: \: %5.0lf xxx" \ "GPRINT:la:MAX: \: %5.0lf max" \ "GPRINT:la:MIN: \: %5.0lf min" \ "GPRINT:la:AVERAGE: \: %5.0lf avg\n" And got the attached output. This is pretty much what I get in the trends column. So I tried again with one of the graphs that don't show up at all. The hobbitd incoming messages graph. And got this error message. ERROR: LINE width '2:in#00CCCC:Incoming messages' is out of range in line 'LINE2:in#00CCCC:Incoming messages' Odd! Tried a bit of reformatting - still no graph. So I took the one above, which is known to at least produce output, and replaced AREA with LINE2. ERROR: LINE width '2:la#00CC00:la' is out of range in line 'LINE2:la#00CC00:la' Odd that this message isn't showing up in any of the logs though. So I went back to my graphs, and the penny dropped. The graphs that appear with the wash of colour are all AREA graphs, or contain an AREA component. The missing ones are all LINE or LINE2 graphs. Sound familiar to anybody? My theory is that somebody upgraded the libraries. (We are using the CSW libraries) and the upgrade may have caused an issue. The investigation continues. Any ideas clues or pointers from the list appreciated. Regards Vernon On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote: > Hi, > > You say ALL of your graphs are crazy, you mean for ALL hosts and ALL tests? I'm sure you've probably already investigated, but what has recently changed with the O/S patches, env, or changes to hobbit? > > You could try to create a manual graph from the rrd file to isolate a bit, short example below. > > rdtool graph splat.png \ > -W tm at .com \ > "DEF:NA1CPU=./NA1CPU.rrd:NA1CPU:AVERAGE" \ > "AREA:NA1CPU#00CC00:NA1CPU" \ > "GPRINT:NA1CPU:LAST: \: %5.0lf cur" \ > "GPRINT:NA1CPU:MAX: \: %5.0lf max" \ > "GPRINT:NA1CPU:MIN: \: %5.0lf min" \ > "GPRINT:NA1CPU:AVERAGE: \: %5.0lf avg\n" > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > > > ________________________________________ > From: Vernon Everett [everett.vernon at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:50 PM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [xymon] Graphs gone crazy > > Hi all > > Hoping somebody has seen this one before. > All of a sudden, all my graphs have gone completely crazy. > > The rrd files look good, and contain sane looking data. > The curr/min/max summary looks fine, but the graphs themselves are > either showing a wash of colour, corresponding to the first defined > line, or not showing at all. Just get the link and the magnifying > glass. (See attached.) > > There appear to be no errors in the web server logs, and none in any > of the xymon logs either. :-( > > Any assistance appreciated. > > Regards > Vernon >

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FW: [xymon] Graphs gone crazy
by tm＠freedom.com 14 Jul '10

14 Jul '10

Hi, You say ALL of your graphs are crazy, you mean for ALL hosts and ALL tests? I'm sure you've probably already investigated, but what has recently changed with the O/S patches, env, or changes to hobbit? You could try to create a manual graph from the rrd file to isolate a bit, short example below. rdtool graph splat.png \ -W tm at .com \ "DEF:NA1CPU=./NA1CPU.rrd:NA1CPU:AVERAGE" \ "AREA:NA1CPU#00CC00:NA1CPU" \ "GPRINT:NA1CPU:LAST: \: %5.0lf cur" \ "GPRINT:NA1CPU:MAX: \: %5.0lf max" \ "GPRINT:NA1CPU:MIN: \: %5.0lf min" \ "GPRINT:NA1CPU:AVERAGE: \: %5.0lf avg\n" Regards, Tim ________________________________________ From: Vernon Everett [everett.vernon at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:50 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] Graphs gone crazy Hi all Hoping somebody has seen this one before. All of a sudden, all my graphs have gone completely crazy. The rrd files look good, and contain sane looking data. The curr/min/max summary looks fine, but the graphs themselves are either showing a wash of colour, corresponding to the first defined line, or not showing at all. Just get the link and the magnifying glass. (See attached.) There appear to be no errors in the web server logs, and none in any of the xymon logs either. :-( Any assistance appreciated. Regards Vernon

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Graphs gone crazy
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 14 Jul '10

14 Jul '10

Hi all Hoping somebody has seen this one before. All of a sudden, all my graphs have gone completely crazy. The rrd files look good, and contain sane looking data. The curr/min/max summary looks fine, but the graphs themselves are either showing a wash of colour, corresponding to the first defined line, or not showing at all. Just get the link and the magnifying glass. (See attached.) There appear to be no errors in the web server logs, and none in any of the xymon logs either. :-( Any assistance appreciated. Regards Vernon

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How to incorporate sudo into Xymon?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, I've looked around for a way to use sudo fetching logfiles/message-logs etc. with Xymon without changing groups and rights on various files/dirs, but the wiki-document which describes it (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO) seems to be outdated - so my question is how to do it with Xymon 4.3.0+? /melgaard

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add a reason of outage to a historical alert
by vadud3＠gmail.com 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Is it possible to add a reason of outage to a historical alert? The alert is not present anymore but would be nice if I could add the reason going back, for recording purpose. Thanks -- 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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bbtest yellow-mystery
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, One of our AD-servers went down for maintenance for 1 week, and I disabled the conn+dns tests in Xymon for that period. Now the "bbtest" column suddenly goes yellow, and indicates that DNS lookups takes 450+ seconds now (indicating that the DNS-check for the maintenanced server is still active). If I check the DNS-check on the server I get this: " clear Mon Jul 12 09:56:38 2010 dns ok : Ping failed, or dialup host/service Service dns on xxx07 is OK Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test Host appears to be down Timeout Seconds: 450.004 " Even tho its disabled. Its been like this since the instance the server was disabled. How can I fix this? Regards, Carl Melgaard.

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Monitor qtree & quota on a vfiler
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, I'm using the great "netapp.pl" from Francesco Duranti to monitor some NetAPP filers. Since we are using vFiler, the netapp.pl only list qtree from the physical filer not the virtual onces. In CLI, we have to do "vfiler context myvfilername" and then run commands to the vFiler, this can't work with the netapp.pl plugin. Is there a way to monitor vfiler quota ?

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Trying to compile xymon-client on CentOS 5.5 64 bit fails
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, I was trying to compile the recent 4.4.0-trunk into a working CentOS 5.5 64bit client, but fails to do so: [melgaard at scamhq trunk]$ make CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DLINUX" RPATHOPT="-Wl,--rpath," PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" ZLIBINCDIR="-I/usr/include" HOBBITZLIB="-L/usr/lib -lz" NETLIBS="" BBTOPDIR="/home/xymon" BBLOGDIR="" BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="xxx" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no" make -C lib client make[1]: Entering directory `/home/melgaard/download/trunk/lib' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I. -I/home/melgaard/download/trunk/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o sendmsg.o sendmsg.c sendmsg.c:91: error: âTALK_SSLWRITE_RECEIVEâ undeclared here (not in a function) make[1]: *** [sendmsg.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/melgaard/download/trunk/lib' make: *** [lib-client] Error 2 Anyone had luck in compiling this? /melgaard

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xymon for mac
by westalto＠gmail.com 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, Is there a xymon client for mac os? Thanks, West

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