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how to see graphs for last week/month for perticular test ?snapshot report
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

hi, i have 2 problems.. 1)i want to see last month cpu utilization graph for the perticular host,how can i see that? 2)when i want to see snapshot report for say date 2dec09 7:30am,front pages(bb-html etc) shows time stamp of 2dec09 7:0am,but when i click to see status of perticular test of perticular host,it shows me status of 29oct09 12:40pm.how to overcome it? -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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AIX df command problem
by sholmes42＠mac.com 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

I am having a problem similar to one recently posted, but this is on an AIX host and is caused (I think) by a problem in the way xymon does df on AIX. The xymon version is 4.2.3 and the AIX OS version is 3.5 (I think, I'm a Solaris Admin). Anyway, I can find no way to force the df on AIX to use POSIX formatting AND to report only local file systems. Even if I could, I don't think I can override what xymon uses for df since the comments in the hobbitclient.cfg file say that the envariable definition is only there for compatibility and it is not used. The problem is that an NFS mount file system line in the df output is being parsed wrong and the number in the usage column is being used for the percent used (Available) so that is a huge number. Not only that, again similar to the previous problem, the file system name is being picked up as the contents of the last 3 fields in the output line, i.e. it is not /mnt/tsmupdates (which is what it should be) but "3020485 50% /tsm/updates", which, of course, prevents me from effectively ignoring that file system. I've tried using DISK %.*/mnt/.* IGNORE and that doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions? We have a big red page where we shouldn't have. Thanks, Steve -- The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. -Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968) Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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Alternate view for Management
by hballinger＠heritage-healthcare.com 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Our support staff likes having our monitoring system setup & organized by logical category/type. However, management is more interested in a view that is organized by business impact. For example: IT Top Level View- Hosted Services Corporate Connectivity Corporate Servers Corporate Desktops Remote Laptops Facility Connectivity Facility Desktops Management Top Level View- Email (Subpage containing all dependent hosts/services) HRMS (same as above) Sales CRM i.e. a listing for each "service" provided - possibly even maintained below subpages for each business unit Management wants availability and impact by the specific service and business unit impacted (10,000 foot view showing all dependencies), while IT is interested in the detail of the cogs/gears that make it all work. Do I just create a second listing for all of the hosts on a separate page structure? Would this generate twice as many network tests for the hosts that are listed duplicate times? Any suggestions? Thanks!

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bbcombotest Links
by me2unix＠gmail.com 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hi, Could not find anyone answering this request yet.. Here's a fix to add links to the bbcomtest reports page : Just change line 455 of hobbitd/bbcombotest.c >From : sprintf(msgline, "&%s %s\n", colorname(vwalk->color), vwalk->symbol); To: sprintf(msgline, "<a href=\"/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=%s&SERVICE=%s\">&%s</a> %s\n", gethname(vwalk->symbol), gettname(vwalk->symbol) , colorname(vwalk->color), vwalk->symbol); recompile and have links on the color dots of the tested items within combotests. --Hezki ** - *To*: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk> - *Subject*: bbcombotest Links - *From*: "Aiello, Steve \(GE, Corporate, consultant\)" <steve.aiello(at) ge.com> - *Date*: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:43:21 -0500 - *Thread-index*: AcdbTzrE4X3/UsIMTSiBvQJbJOnunQ== - *Thread-topic*: bbcombotest Links ------------------------------ Hi all, I thought I saw this question asked before, but did see it in the mailling list. When using bbcombotests, is it possible to have the combotest report with hyperlinks to the actual tests ? If I see one of the statuses are red or yellow, my nature instict is to wonder why, and be able to drill down for details. thanks, Steve

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Possible to sum rrd into one graph ?
by tseglard＠tf1.fr 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Hello, In Munin, its possible to sum several rrd into one graph (ie : to display the total bandwidth used by all your media servers). Thus, I'm asking if it's possible to do this in XYmon too ? I saw the < Metrics reports > but you can't sum graphs... Regards, Thomas SEGLARD

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Memory report faulty
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hi all Another contract, another emial address. :-) Hope you all had a good festive season. Quick question. Was there ever a resolution to this issue? http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/03/msg00036.html Searched the archive, and couldn't find one. To recap, this was where memory reports something bizzare, like this > Memory Used Total Percentage > red Physical 4294961768M 8192M 4294967229% > green Swap 1600M 8191M 19% Regards Vernon

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bug in ldaptest.c
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

So it appears that there's a bug in part of the ldap testing code. --- bbnet/ldaptest.c (lines 85-86) dbgprintf("Forcing port %d for ldaps with STARTTLS\n", LDAP_PORT ); ludp->lud_port = LDAP_PORT; --- Even if you're attempting an ldaps test with a specified port, the test is still only performing a 389 port test. I changed LDAP_PORT to LDAPS_PORT and recompiled, then tried an ldaps test again, however now it just doesn't appear to connect. --- 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Opening file /home/xymon/server/etc/bb-hosts 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Adding hostname 'x.x.x.x' to resolver queue 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Processing 1 DNS lookups with ARES 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Got DNS result for host x.x.x.x : 10.x.x.x 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Finished ARES queue after loop 2 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Concurrency evaluation: rlim_cur=1024, FD_SETSIZE=0, absmax=1024, initial=1014 2010-08-27 16:06:45 About to do 0 TCP tests running 256 in parallel, abs.max 1014 2010-08-27 16:06:45 TCP tests completed normally 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Forcing port 636 for ldaps with STARTTLS 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Initiating LDAP session for host x.x.x.x port 636 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Attempting to select LDAPv3 2010-08-27 16:06:45 Trying to enable TLS for session 2010-08-27 16:06:55 ldap_start_tls failed URL : ldaps://x.x.x.x/ou=people,dc=x,dc=x,dc=x?dn?sub?uid=healthcheck Time spent : 0.00 LDAP output: Can't contact LDAP server --- The server I'm running the test against is Sun Directory 6.2, so should this test work, or should I give up and just use an external script for my ldaps testing?

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Fwd: ssh status problem
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: akshar bhosale <akshar.bhosale at gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:36 PM Subject: ssh status problem To: hobbit at hswn.dk Hi, i have xymon4.2.2 and rhel 5.2 os.i have a server and 120 clients. on some of the clients,i was getting purple status for ssh.then i removed it by using ./bb 127.0.0.1 "drop clientname ssh" on server and the purple status gone for those clients but now there is no status for ssh on display page for client.I want green status for ssh for all clients again.what should i do?Rest all thins are ok. My hostfile is like: page rack001 Compute cluster title Compute Nodes subpage rack900 Row1-Rack6 conn group-only conn 172.29.1.49 node49.mgmt.acc.in # 172.29.1.50 node50.mgmt.acc.in # 172.29.1.51 node51.mgmt.acc.in # 172.29.1.52 node52.mgmt.acc.in # 172.29.1.53 node53.mgmt.acc.in # 172.29.1.54 node54.mgmt.acc.in # subpage rack901 cpu group-only cpu 0.0.0.0 node49.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node50.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node51.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node52.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node53.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node54.mgmt.acc.in # noconn subpage rack904 ssh group-only ssh 0.0.0.0 node49.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node50.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node51.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node52.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node53.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node54.mgmt.acc.in # noconn subpage rack904 ssh group-only ssh 0.0.0.0 node49.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node50.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node51.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node52.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node53.mgmt.acc.in # noconn 0.0.0.0 node54.mgmt.acc.in # noconn ....and so on Kindly help

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Problem with disk monitoring
by shailesh.paudyal＠gmail.com 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

All, Please see below, there is a problem with disk monitoring on one of the server. Can some one tell me if I did something wrong? W]d Jul 28 10:34:31 EDT 2010 - Filesystems NOT ok 7% / (8816628% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 38% /u01 (90371708% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 2% /tmp (9254468% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 34% /usr (6261556% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 18% /opt (7775588% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 4% /var (13653064% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 3% /home (27514896% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 30% /boot (67864% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 14% /u02 (1697518148% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 94% /u03 (136865636% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Filesystem 10 4-b]ocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda9 9920592 591896 8816628 7% / /dev/sda10 152435112 54195172 90371708 38% /u01 /dev/sda8 9920592 154056 9254468 2% /tmp /dev/sda7 9920592 3146968 6261556 34% /usr /dev/sda6 9920592 1632936 7775588 18% /opt /dev/sda5 14877060 456092 13653064 4% /var /dev/sda3 29753588 702880 27514896 3% /home /dev/sda1 101086 28003 67864 30% /boot /dev/mapper/VolGroup02-u02 2064204960 261831260 1697518148 14% /u02 /dev/mapper/VolGroup03-u03 2064204960 1822483772 136865636 94% /u03 -- Shailesh K. Paudyal shailesh.paudyal at gmail.com

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bb-services: regexes in expect string?
by AaronZink＠eharmony.com 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

I have this defined in bb-services: [smtp-transaction] send "helo hobbit.domain.com\r\nmail from: <test at domain.com>\r\nrcpt to: <test at anotherdomain.com>\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220-mx01.domain.com ESMTP\r\n220 ESMTP READY\r\n250 mx01.domain.com\r\n250 sender <test at domain.com> ok\r\n" port 25 and a host that uses it in bb-hosts. This works great, except that it's tied to the host mx01.domain.com in the expect string. Is it possible to use regexes in the expect string, such as expect "220-mx0[0|1].domain.com"? So far my attempts have been unsuccessful and the man pages don't seem to indicate if this is possible. Aaron Zink Manager, Corporate IT eHarmony.com 626.795.4814

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