September 2010 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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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Where is development going on in SVN?
by cade.robinson＠gmail.com 25 Sep '10

25 Sep '10

I have been using xymon compiled from about 6+ months ago. I have used the old "hobbitmon" project. I found some issues with the 4.2 version and tried branches/4.3.0 and branches/4.4.0. It looked like 4.3 and 4.4 were mostly the same so I went with 4.4.0. I found that I needed to patch quite a few files to get things working right. This was all prior to the hobbit->xymon changes. Now I was asked to setup another monitoring server and thought I would try out the new project. I was looking at the SVN to see if anything I had to patch was fixed but I am confused as to where to look for the latest revisions. Looking at the last few commits it looks like they have been going into "trunk". Looking at revisions it looks like branches/4.4.0 is newer than trunk. So what is the development area? "trunk" or "branches"? I want to also see if the patches I created are still needed and if so then would like to somehow get them into the repo. Thanks

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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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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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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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Wrong (or badly interpreted) http response time with hobbit 4.2.0
by Benoit.Schmid＠unige.ch 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hello, I have monitored machines that are reporting around 3.5 seconds for the HTTP response time during the whole day (curve flat). If I do wgets, from the Solaris machine where hobbit server is installed, I get response times that is lower than 100 ms. Our old BB server reports response times that are also lower than 100 ms. Would you know why my hobbit monitor report such high response times? Thanks in advance for your answer.

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