September 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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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bb-roracle.ksh
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Here is my bb-roracle.ksh v2.20 that I modified to work with HP-UX's KSH88 (/bin/ksh) shell. Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 AM, <xymon-digest-help at xymon.com> wrote: > > From: Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:14:34 +0800 > Subject: Re: [xymon] bb-roracle.ksh > See attached. > I don't recall what version of ksh I was using for this one, but I do recall it worked on the Sol8 and Sol10 default ksh. > (The default version doesn't support most of the string manipulation commands, which makes me think it's the older version) > > It did require two additional config files. > One, defined the tests to perform, and the other defined your list of databases. > Then you also had to make sure your tnsnames was available. > Instead of trying to set the path, I used to symbolically link it into the ~/client/etc/ directory. > > Give it a whirl, and see how you go. > Sorry I can't be more specific, but it's been some time since I last did database monitoring. > > Regards > Vernon > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Gore, David W <david.gore at verizonbusiness.com> wrote: >> >> Has anybody ported this script to ksh93? I made some changes to get it half running but perhaps someone has done a more thorough and complete job who knows the differences between the older and newer Korn shells? >> >> >> >> ~David Gore >> >> >

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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: [xymon] Xymon : Display and columns issue
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <jef.jagers at thomsonreuters.com> Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM Subject: RE: [xymon] Xymon : Display and columns issue To: akshar.bhosale at gmail.com Perhaps a stupid suggestion; but try change the entries to 0.0.0.0 node49.mgmt.acc.in # ssh noconn 0.0.0.0 node50.mgmt.acc.in # ssh noconn 0.0.0.0 node51.mgmt.acc.in # ssh noconn 0.0.0.0 node52.mgmt.acc.in # ssh noconn 0.0.0.0 node53.mgmt.acc.in # ssh noconn 0.0.0.0 node54.mgmt.acc.in # ssh noconn Regards, *Jef Jagers* Systems Engineer Thomson CompuMark * * *Thomson Reuters* T +32 3 220 76 02 *From:* akshar bhosale [mailto:akshar.bhosale at gmail.com] *Sent:* dinsdag, september 28, 2010 20:36 *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [xymon] Xymon : Display and columns issue Hi, we have xymon4.2.2 and rhel 5.2 os. we have a server and 120 clients. We have 3 sub clusters and above bb-host file. Now our problem is that we have restriction on subcolumns argument to BBGENOPTS as this is comon for all three subcluster pages..so if we want to add one extra test in one of the subcluster, we need to increase subcolumns aruments..e.g.all subclusters have 8 tests, so subcolumns=8, now if we want to configure one more test in subcluster2 only, how we should do that? because if we do subcolumns=9, all our display page will be disturbed as there are 8 tests for subcluster1 and 3 and 9 tests for subcluster2. So how to add or remove any service without disturbing the main display 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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I need urgent help: Hobbit (linux) client startup failed
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Please keep the xymon mailing list as a recipient. This is the last reply I will send you to an off-list question. On Thursday, 30 September 2010 08:32:46 Matic Madalina wrote: > Hello Buchan. > > Thank you for your response. > > I dot not know how to compile xymon for linux. Can you tell me please the > commands that I should use? As is conventional with most software supplied as source, a README document is supplied with the source, which documents the basics of how to compile the software (assuming you have the requirements - a C compiler etc. - installed). > I am only using the application; the guy who implemented this has left the > team last year. Did he not provide any documentation on how he deployed clients? Maybe he already had pre-compiled binaries? > I received the application configured with a Hobbit server working with 7 > unix clients. One of 7 unix clients was replaced with a linux one. > > I only copied the unix client sources to the new linux one, but I did not > change anything, only the address and host of the new linux server in the > bb-hosts on the Hobbit server side. > > I do not know even how to install xymon-client packages. I do not know how > to find the distribution I use. I do not know from where to take a proper > distribution for linux. Personally it sounds like you aren't in a position to support this linux server. This list is not intended to provide Unix training ... > Can you help me please with the commands, paths and steps: > - to find the distribution I use? You can try: cat /etc/*release > - to find a proper distribution for linux? > - to install xymon-client package? Will depend on the answer to the first question. If Mandriva, 'urpmi xymon- client && vi /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client && service xymon-client start', on Debian 'apt-get install xymon-client'. For CentOS or RHEL, you may want to use my repo: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/Xymon.repo If that doesn't help you, this page has some hints that may help: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHELorC… Regards, Buchan

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