September 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

getting DURATION error in hobbitd_alert
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

In my hobbit-alert.cfg I have added the "DURATION>10" and I a get a Failed. See below. If I make it DURATION<10, then I do not get an error. Should the ">" be escaped? If so what is the escaped character for xymon. I have tried DURATION\>10 but it did not seem to like the \ as an escape character. Thanks for all your help. Robert [227][root at gauss]:xymon/server/etc# ../bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test galileo.math.purdue.edu procs 2010-09-28 15:17:54 Using default environment file /local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 00019860 2010-09-28 15:17:54 send_alert galileo.math.purdue.edu:procs state Paging 00019860 2010-09-28 15:17:54 Matching host:service:page 'galileo.math.purdue.edu:procs:MathNet7' against rule line 120 00019860 2010-09-28 15:17:54 *** Match with 'HOST=galileo.math.purdue.edu' *** 00019860 2010-09-28 15:17:54 Matching host:service:page 'galileo.math.purdue.edu:procs:MathNet7' against rule line 121 00019860 2010-09-28 15:17:54 Failed 'MAIL rmcgraw at math.purdue.edu SERVICE=procs REPEAT=1h DURATION>10' (min. duration 0<600) [228][root at gauss]:xymon/server/etc# ../bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --dump-config galileo.math.purdue.edu procs 2010-09-28 15:18:03 Using default environment file /local/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg HOST=galileo.math.purdue.edu MAIL rmcgraw at math.purdue.edu FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=60 SERVICE=procs DURATION>10 _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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Xymon : Display and columns issue
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

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 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? Kindly help

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Critical System Editor
by Steve.Newton＠PHH.com 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hello, I'm trying to configure the Critical Systems Page and would like to know if there is a way to add a group of host all at once? I have about 400 hosts to add and adding one at a time will take forever. Any suggestions would be appreciated Steve Newton PHH Corporation Desk 856-917-7700 Cell 856-425-1092

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directory directive
by traxler＠lsu.edu 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

WHile looking in the lib/stackio.c, I saw "directory" as a directive just like "include". So, in the client/etc directory I created a directory called clientlaunch.d and added the line "directory clientlaunch.d" to my clientlaunch.cfg file. I then created 3 files (mysql.cfg, raid.cfg, and postfix.cfg) in the clientlaunch.d directory. Upon restart, all seems to work. I have not dfound this in the doc. Am I blind? In this a new feature that has not made it to the documentation yet? My goal was to find an easy way to add/remove external scripts on a client without manually editing the clientlaunch.cfg. This appears to be the perfect answer. NOw I can simply add the code to the ext directory and the conf ot the clientlaunch.d directory and it all just works (I suspect I need to touch clientlaunch.cfg) so that it gets reprocessed to pick up new plugins or to forget about deleted ones. Regardless -- If I understand this functionality correctly -- it looks like just what I need. -- Isaac Traxler AIX,Linux Admin Louisiana State University traxler at lsu.edu High Performance Computing 225-578-1923 LONI AIX Clusters AIX, Linux Support

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reinstalling xymon server
by rolands＠logicaltech.com.au 27 Sep '10

27 Sep '10

I did some code changes to fix a problem with xymon 4.3.0.0.beta2. If I want to test it, is it safe to just reinstall over the current xymon server? Will it keep all settings, and just install the binaries? Is there an option doing that? Also good to do that if I want to revert back to original. Cheers, Roland Soderstrom

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Loris Serena is out of the office.
by loris.serena＠bnymellon.com 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

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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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lifetime of msgs status
by mailinglist0＠skurfer.com 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

I want to check a file for a certain pattern, so the LOG check seemed like the natural choice. I got it configured and started to see some red statuses come in for hosts where the pattern matched, but then about 35 minutes later, they all go green though nothing has changed on the client. Looking at the msgs column on a host, I can see that the “Full log” is empty. Is this the expected behavior? The file I'm checking for patterns in is not really a log file and rarely changes. Maybe the test is designed to discard lines it's already processed after 30 minutes? So is there a way to check something like a config file for invalid patterns? Do I need to write a custom script? Writing and distributing a custom test is not a big deal to me at all. What I dread is adding yet another column to the web view, which is why I was looking for a built-in test to use. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>

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HP Proliants
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi all Has anyone got Xymon monitoring HP Proliant power supplies under Linux? Also, has anyone got monitoring of HP Proliant RAID and or power supplies under Windows? (Win 2003 and 2008R2) Still trying to get role based views going. Has anyone done this? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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bbtest-net man page
by vadud3＠gmail.com 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

bbtest-net man page says --dns=[ip|only|standard] Determines how bbtest-net finds the IP adresses of the hosts to test. By default (the "standard"), bbtest-net does a DNS lookup of the hostname to determine the IP address, unless the host has the "testip" tag, or the DNS lookup fails. With "--dns=only" bbtest-net will ONLY do the DNS lookup; it it fails, then all services on that host will be reported as being down. With "--dns=ip" bbtest-net will never do a DNS lookup; it will use the IP adresse specified in bb-hosts for the tests. Thus, this setting is equivalent to having the "testip" tag on all hosts. Note that http tests will ignore this setting and still perform a DNS lookup for the hostname given in the URL; see the "bbtest-net tags for HTTP tests" section in bb-hosts(5) I think this should be updated like below. added a "Note:.." --dns=[ip|only|standard] Determines how bbtest-net finds the IP adresses of the hosts to test. By default (the "standard"), bbtest-net does a DNS lookup of the hostname to determine the IP address, unless the host has the "testip" tag, or the DNS lookup fails. With "--dns=only" bbtest-net will ONLY do the DNS lookup; it it fails, then all services on that host will be reported as being down. With "--dns=ip" bbtest-net will never do a DNS lookup; it will use the IP adresse specified in bb-hosts for the tests. Thus, this setting is equivalent to having the "testip" tag on all hosts. Note that http tests will ignore this setting and still perform a DNS lookup for the hostname given in the URL; see the "bbtest-net tags for HTTP tests" section in bb-hosts(5) Note: for dns standard, If DNS lookup fails, hobbit picks the IP from the bb-hosts file for all network tests like ping and etc. In hobbit server even though dig @192.168.1.1 host.example.net gives no answer where 192.168.1.1 is the resolver. But ping test still shows success. There is no entry for host.example.net in hobbit server's /etc/hosts either. -- 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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