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TS - can you combine multiple notifications into a macro/grouping?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

I am trying to simplify the hobbit-alerts.cfg file. I understand how to do a simple macro. In my case, I will have something like: n Oncall person available from 6pm-6am M-F n Oncall person available all day Sat and Sun n During business hours, normal alerts will be done n During business hours, and no response from the appropriate people, after 30 minutes, notify the oncall person n Also, escalate to manager after 60 minutes n Also, escalate to the managers manager after 90 minutes EXAMPLE ENTRY: --------------------- Host=abc.widget.com recovered # Sat & Sun all day SCRIPT /.../oncall.sh <list-name> TIME="0,6:0001:2400" REPEAT=365d # Early morning M-F SCRIPT /.../oncall.sh <list-name> TIME="1-5:0001:0559" REPEAT=365d # Late evening M-F SCRIPT /.../oncall.sh <list-name> TIME="1-5:1801:2400" REPEAT=365d # Normal business hours M-F 6am-6pm MAIL jim at widget.com TIME="1-5:0600:1800" REPEAT=365d # Normal business hours but no response - send to oncall SCRIPT= /.../oncall.sh <list-name> TIME="1-5:0600:1800" REPEAT=365d DURATION>30m # ESCALATION any time MAIL boss at widget.com REPEAT=365d DURATION>59m MAIL bigboss at widget.com REPEAT=365d DURATION>89m I don't want to cut and paste this type of alert list for hundreds of servers/devices. Is there a way to consolidate into a single entry to keep the hobbit-alerts.cfg file manageable? oncall.sh does a lookup in a table for the oncall person for that date range. Thanks, Tom Schmitt 801-594-3030 D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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How to install a client for Solaris
by nobulame＠gmail.com 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hi, Can someone please help me i have been struggling to install a Xymon client for Solaris. I'm new in the Xymon and Solaris environment, can i get a tar file for example with simple steps for installing the Xymon client. If possible can i also get the same files [prefer tar] and steps for HP-UX and AIX Operating systmes I managed to build Xymon on Fedora, and monitored windows servers. But with other operating systems i'm struggling, there are new requirements for AIX, HP-UX and Linux machines to be monitored. Can i please get some assistance in this regard. Thanks

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TS - Separate network gathering to same display screen
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

CURRENT SYSTEM: 1. BB collector on the FAR network. 2. LOCAL - BBDISPLAY/collector on the internal network displaying both the local and FAR devices in the computer room. I have a completely separate network (FAR) that has 50 Windows hosts on it. It is currently running a BB server (1), that is just gathering information about the availability of the hosts. Pinging the hosts is all that is being done to a server on the FAR network. That server then sends the information to a BB server with the display on our internal network. NOTE: We have a need to place windows clients on the server in the near future. Poking a multi-to-one hole for port 1984 + ping, etc. in the firewall is not recommended for our environment. Questions: 1. Can the existing FAR BB server send its info to an Xymon server on the internal network? And have these devices displayed on the LOCAL xymon screen? 2. Is there an Xymon collector that can collect the ping an client info from the 50 servers and forward it through a single connection to the LOCAL xymon server and screen? I cannot retire the existing BB services until I can solve this problem. Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff - R&D \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo--

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conn/ping latency warning
by mfricke＠royfree.org.au 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

How do I enable warnings/alerts based on the conn/ping "latency" for a device? I know it will allow you to set warnings based on the amount of fails but not the latency itself - do I need a custom script/command for this? EG. Go yellow on 500ms+ ping red on 1000ms+ ping? Thanks, Marc ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email This message, together with any attachment, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is legally privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please be informed that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message, or any attachment is strictly prohibited. Kindly note that Internet communications are not secured and therefore are susceptible to alteration. RFBI will not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, and delete the message. Thank you for your co-operation.

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Host several XYmon on the same server (a potential request ?)
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Hi, I'm wondering if I can host 2 XYmon on the same server who got 2 IPs. XYmon01 binded on IP01 receives informations from XYmon clients A, B, C, D and XYmon02 binded on IP02 receives and display status from clients E, F, G, H.. My goal is to offer different view for totally different people / needs and I don't want to mix everything on one XYmon. The main question could be : can I bind Xymon to an IP ? -- LMJ "May the source be with you my young padawan" http://sites.google.com/site/imatruelinuxmasterjedi/

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Netbackup test
by rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi, I got this heavily modified nbu.ksh script originally from deadcat NBU.3.4.1.02. It started as a very specialized test for our particular environment. I have modified it today to get a more common approach. It might not suit the enterprise NetBackup solutions as they might be to large. Smaller and midsized solutions might find it useful. I use it for our Netbackup 6.5.4 on solaris with Xymon 4.3.0.0_beta2 Anyone interested to have a go? mail me at rolands at logicaltech dot com dot au and I send a copy. Best regards Roland Soderstrom

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VMware Guests Monitor
by hballinger＠heritage-healthcare.com 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

I am not much of a bash script artist, but I know the logic that I need to use for an EXT that I think many VMware users would find handy. The purpose of this EXT is to provide a list of virtual machines that are allocated to the host, and indicate whether or not they are running. I've tried to provide my logic below: ### "vmware-cmd -l" needs to be run to get list of Virtual Machines allocated to the host ### [root at HHCGVL-VMWA01 root]# vmware-cmd -l /vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.3/esXpress.vmx /vmfs/volumes/4bff448c-e7962c66-fbb4-001372540ee2/replica-49ae5498-5bcf-4bb7-9075-/replica-49ae5498-5bcf-4bb7-9075-.vmx /vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.1/esXpress.vmx /vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.2/esXpress.vmx /vmfs/volumes/4bff4a29-c7b1c616-8d51-001372540ee2/HHCDMZ-JUMP05 (OpenFire)/HHCDMZ-JUMP05 (OpenFire).vmx /vmfs/volumes/4bff1f3d-77949257-b4a5-001372540ee2/HHCGVL-ADMN01/HHCGVL-VMWA00.vmx /vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.4/esXpress.vmx /vmfs/volumes/4bff4a29-c7b1c616-8d51-001372540ee2/HHCDEV-ISIT01/HHCDEV-ISIT01.vmx ### For each line %i : ### ### "vmware-cmd %i getstate" needs to be run for red/green for each entry returned above ### [root at HHCGVL-VMWA01 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.3/esXpress.vmx getstate getstate() = off ### "/vmfs/volumes/" needs to be stripped from each entry ### ### All text up to and including the first "/" needs to be trimmed ### ### All text including and after the second "/" needs to be trimmed ### ### "&red " or "&green " needs to be added to the beginning based off of getstate result ### ### End Loop ### ### Logic for excluding expected "down" machines ### ??????? exclude any line that includes "DEV" ???????? ??????? exclude any line that includes "esXpress" ?????? ??????? exclude any line that includes "replica" ?????? ??????? maybe provide a file or comma delimited list of terms to exclude ????? ### add "red" or "green" at beginning as a summary ### ### Add "************ERRORS*****************" if red ### ### Add "***********All is Well*****************" if green ### ### Place output in logs folder for upload to monitoring server ### ### See example output below ### Red Tue 09/01/2009 13:30:29.59 ***************ERRORS****************** &red HHCDMZ-JUMP05 (OpenFire) &green HHCGVL-ADMN01 - Harold Ballinger IT Manager Heritage Healthcare, Inc. (888) 335-2620 | helpdesk (864) 244-3626 | office (864) 244-3093 | fax [cid:image001.jpg at 01CB39FB.C7663590] Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com<http://www.heritage-healthcare.com/>

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Trending Interfaces without IP addresses
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Can you alter the data at the source? i.e. hack the result of the netstat command to include a "fake" IP address. Use perl/sed/awk/etc to insert a line with an IP address. The client will then send the data to the server to process as a new interface. Craig

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Trending Interfaces without IP addresses
by conrad＠rockenhaus.com 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hello, I have several IDS sensors that I would like to take bandwidth snapshots of the IDS interface. I noticed that the ifstat command to grab the statistics only grabs statistics for the interface with an IP address assigned to it; I have tried modifying it to grab the statistics for the unnumbered interface, but it still does not return any data. The sensors run FreeBSD. So, does anyone know of a way to get Xymon to gather statistics of an interface that is up with an active link (one-way tap) but does not have an IP address? Thanks, Conrad

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HBA monitor script for Solaris
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Does anyone know of a script that monitors HBA in a Solaris environment? Just thought I would check before I spend time on creating one. Thanks in Advanced! -Kevin ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email _____________________________________________________________________

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