January 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Network Bandwidth monitoring
by mike＠terrapintesting.com 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

I plan to incorporate my MRTG system into Xymon. I would like to know if I can have a "Red" alert appear when my bandwidth utilization of a particular interface exceeds a certain amount over the 5min interval? Is this possible? If so, can you point me in the right direction so I can research how to set it up? I have a DSL circuit I need to alert when it reaches the 500Kb upload rate. Thanks, Mike

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icon animation
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi, It's not a big deal, but since a wild, the icon animation still static. For example, the red icon after 24h is just a big "x", no flashing. Anyway to put it back? David Raymond

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bbcombotest dot clear
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

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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dnsreg installation
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi, I see one post on this, but it was modified by the user. I want to know how could I get it work. On xymon.com, it only show the script, I have done this part. I have also add in hobbitlaunch.cfg the part for dnsreg for each 5 min to verified if it work, after I want change it to 1day. But nothing appear. I have restart server few time. Maybe I do something wrong. Thx in advance to help me. David Raymond

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DISK IGNORE useage
by Munsch＠phillycarshare.org 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

I think I’m missing something. I have Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdv1 3768053780 1056651192 2711402588 29% / none 131072 336 130736 1% /tmp and they’re both graphed. Except the /dev/hdv1 is the entire array and I don’t want to monitor that – just /tmp. (In our last episode, I got it to monitor /tmp by grep –v-ing for tempfs in the client’s DF line). However… if I add to the host’s config a DISK IGNORE /, then while the text (as above) only shows /tmp, I lose /tmp’s graph line and it only graphs root. I’ve tried including the IGNORE line both before and after a line for /tmp, with no effect. As soon as I add the IGNORE line, /tmp’s graph line vanishes on next update. ------------------------ Rob Munsch IT Administrator PhillyCarShare 215-495-1040 x131 www.phillycarshare.org Our Vision: A Philadelphia in which non-profit car sharing exceeds the convenience, flexibility, and affordability of car ownership.

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badtest option for non-network tests?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Hi, Is it possible to emulate the badtest-option for non-network-tests, like cpu/memory? For instance badcpu:2:2:3? Or is there another way to achieve this? Regards, Carl Melgaard

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looping background gradient
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Seems like the red background just keeps looping. Yellow and green works fine. Did I do something wrong? See attached. Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +1 416.369.0111 #344 F +1 416.369.9599 Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

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new menu bar
by lebarber＠gmail.com 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Is there any way to configure the new menu bar so that it has a hierarchical structure. In my current Hobbit installation I have the menus set up so that I can navigate directly to any of the static pages in any of my pagesets by navigating down a menu. Is there some way to duplicate this with the new menu system? Thanks, Larry Barber

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Query about bad<tests>
by isolderj＠hotmail.com 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

as i understand it the following line <ipnumber> <hostname> # ssh spamd badSPAMD:2:3:5 should go "clear" after the second failure, "yellow" after three successive failures, and "red" after 5 successive failures But this does not seem to happen. Am I doing something wrong. Thanks

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4.3.0 RC1 menu bar
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Nice work on the Xymon menu bar! Looks great on the Chrome browser, it is a nice upgrade from beta3. It is more readable. Look nice on IE8 as well. ~David

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