January 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Mailack delay problems
by johan.sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 18 Feb '11

18 Feb '11

Hi. I think there is some problem with the mailack delay parameter in 4.3.0RC1. This night I got an alert, and I wanted to ack it from my mobile phone. I hit reply and added "delay=600" to the subject line. I can see in my sent folder that the subject is correct. But after an hour I got another SMS for the same service, so it seems like it did not accept the parameter correctly. E-mail subject: "Ang.: Hobbit [455503] hostname.removed.svcs red delay=600" Procmail.log: >From my at email Wed Jan 26 04:43:39 2011 Subject: Ang.: Hobbit [455503] hostname.removed.svcs Folder: /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=/usr/local/ 12506 Acknowledge.log: 1296013419 455503 60 455503 np_filename_not_used hostname.removed.svcs red --_000_5D50DE4ACDBB4C018A9302A181625CBFdeltamanagementse_\nAcked by: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johan_Sj=F6berg?= my at email Or is procmail the problem, since the delay=600 is not in the subject of the procmail.log? The hostname is quite long, which means the subject is long. Could that be a problem? By the way, does mailack now accept "Xymon [ackcode]" so I can change the subject of the alerts from Hobbit? /Johan

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Linux client broken output
by giel.boes＠rhodix.nl 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

Dear, We are running Xymon on a Sun Fire v100 with Solaris 10 installed. On several Oracle systems with Oracle VM (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)) with 64 bit we are running Hobbit clients (FC5-hobbit-client-4.2.0-1.i386.rpm). The hobbit clients are 32 bit because those are the only wants we could find. Problem: sometimes several tests like procs/disk/cpu is giving weird values in the monitoring which makes Xymon red. However, everything is fine and after restarting the client or after next update (5 minutes default), Xymon becomes green again. Data size should not be the reason as I can see all the client data clear including a complete process list. It's just broken on the output page at the procs test. Do you have any clue what could be the reason for this? Thanks a lot. Kind regards, Giel Boes Rhodix System Manager

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Alerts : how State Flapping is handled by xymon?
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

hi, we are trying to find as how State Flapping is taken care in xymon to avoid too many mails fo the same. any help will be appriciated. akshar

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Xymon server reporting to itself and another Xymon server
by shea4th＠comcast.net 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hi All, I have two new Xymon servers A and B. All clients will send data to both servers excerpt from xymonclient.cfg: XYMSRV="0.0.0.0" # IP address of the Xymon server XYMSERVERS="serverA serverB" # IP of multiple Xymon servers. XYMSRV must be "0.0.0.0". No problem so far. I want serverA to be a client to itself and serverB and vice versa. Modifying the xymonclient.cfg file on the server sends the server (as a client), but also all the client data that reports to it. Xymond excerpt: Multi-source statuses clientA:conn reported by serverB and serverA clientB:conn reported by serverB and serverA clientC:conn reported by serverB and serverA ... Latest error messages: Flapping detected for clientA:conn - 5 changes in 620 seconds Flapping detected for clientB:conn - 5 changes in 620 seconds Flapping detected for clientB:conn - 5 changes in 620 seconds So obviously that's not the way to do it. Do I have to do anything with xymonproxy? I don't want to change all my clients. Thanks in advance Greg Shea EMC Corporation

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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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4.3.0 RC1 xymonclient-sunos.sh kstat fix
by brian＠majeska.com 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Henrik, I just ran into this same problem last week regarding Solaris clients and extra ifstat interfaces from the kstat output from the xymonclient-sunos.sh script http://www.xymon.com/archive/2009/06/msg00204.html I was thinking it would be good to add the fix referenced for 4.3 :-) Thanks, -- Brian Majeska

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regarding sending sms alerts with xymon
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Hi, we have xymon 4.2.2 on RHEL 5.3 OS installed for cluster with 32 nos of nodes for monitoring . We are trying to integrate sms alerts with xymon. We have sms server with smash and gnokii setup. How we should integrate this server with our xymon server so that is can send alerts. Thank you, -Akshar B. NDF Computech

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4.3.0 RC1 - Metrics Report
by brian＠majeska.com 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Anyone else having problems getting a the Metrics Report to display a graph with multiple hosts on it? I get a broken link for the graph for CPU, RAM, Ping, etc... It works for singles hosts, just not when multiple hosts are selected. - Brian Majeska

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bbcombotest dot clear
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

I try to install from scratch on Ubuntu 10.10 with apt-get install hobbit The same result is there. I think the error is in "CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbcombotest" Can someone verified on his side ? David Raymond From: Raymond, David [mailto:David.Raymond at ca.ebarrette.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 9:29 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [xymon] bbcombotest dot clear On some test that I do, I get this a the bottom (test\-antenne01.conn||test\-antenne02.conn) = (1||1) = 1 test-antenne01.conn test-antenne02.conn Errors occurred during evaluation: Could not access hobbitd board, error 0 Bbcombotest.cfg # Wireless Wireless.wrls = (test\-antenne01.conn || test\-antenne02.conn) Both connection are down for the moment, but still clear. Should be red. Someone have this issue also ? David Raymond From: Raymond, David [mailto:David.Raymond at ca.ebarrette.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:56 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] bbcombotest dot clear Hi, I have setup cluster in bbcombotest.cfg All my setup in this file are good. But in Hobbit, when I click on the green dot, all parameter are clear, even if those are red. So I get the wrong information. Here there anyway to fix this issue, I have Xymon 4.3.0.0 Beta2 David Raymond

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Availability Report
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

Hi, I have an error when I try to generate Availability Report in all browser except Chrome "Internal Server Error" Someone have same issue ? We use Hobbit 4.3.0.0beta2 on Ubuntu 8.10. thx David Raymond

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