October 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Experience: Monitoring Oracle via Xymon?
by varg_b＠yahoo.com 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hello, Is it possible for you send me the scripts for monitoring Oracle through Xymon please? thanks, Blesson

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monitoring intermediate ssl certs
by lebarber＠gmail.com 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

We recently had some intermediate ssl certificates expire without warning. Have any of you figured out a way to monitor these using Xymon? Thanks, Larry Barber

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Example of alerts.cfg
by skjoldar＠gmail.com 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi Can anyone please give me an example of a more complicated alerts.cfg? I need to just see how the structure looks. I can't seem to get the group/page alerts working, not sure if you need to just specify PAGE= or PAGE= and HOST= both. I know there's just something I'm missing. Thanks

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xymon for IBM IMMs?
by zgreenfelder＠gmail.com 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

does anyone have/know of Xymon plugins/extensions for IBM IMMs? -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.

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Conn Alert after one missed packet
by mariov652＠gmail.com 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hello list, Is it possible to be alerted when one single packet is lost i.e. conn request does not receive a reply for the first packet? I know the default fping sends out 3 packets when if the conn request does not receive a reply after a set period. Looking at the fping man page, I've changed the fping syntax to "fping -A -e -r1", but this will still send one additional ping packet before an alert is raised. Alternatively I could look at creating a custom script, but obviously it's easier if this facility is already built-in somehow. Thanks, Mario

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Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host
by David.Raymond＠ca.ebarrette.com 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hi, On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service. This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red... and send alerts. Someone have same as me ? David Raymond

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Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Raymond, David > Sent: 10/21/11 04:40 PM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host > > Hi, > > > > On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service. > > This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red... > and send alerts. How long are you waiting after making changes to hosts.cfg? It may take a couple of minutes, especially if you are adding new hosts. Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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[Bbwin-help] BBWin in central mode
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hi Neil, ----- Original Message ----- From: Neil Simmonds Sent: 10/21/11 03:27 PM To: bbwin-help at lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bbwin-help] BBWin in central mode Hi all, I am running BBWin in central mode on all my Windows servers however I have noticed that alerts for log messages only show for 30 minutes. I'd like to change this to 2 hours but can't seem to find a way to do this when in central mode. Can anyone point me in the right direction. In central mode, this is controlled by the Xymon server. However, I can't remember where this is configured. CC'ing the Xymon mailing list. Regards, Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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Xymon Server Multihomed
by denis＠crewhub.net 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hi, I'm searching an easier way to configure my xymon 4.3.5 server other than specifying @IP at each test necessary in hosts.cfg. My configuration is with two IPs. I'm on Debian squeeze. One for the real physical IP and another with an alias (which i try to use with my xymon server). Even if i set a DNS name, a reverse DNS, force the IP in xymonserver.cfg some tests like ssh are not working. My configuration of hosts.cfgwas clear and simple until today, i don't want to complexify it with @1.2.3.4 on all tests necessary. Is there another way to configure it ? At least is it possible to apply it for a complete line or a group ? Kind regards, Denis

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xymongrep not checking local hosts.cfg
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 20 Oct '11

20 Oct '11

I am in the process of upgrading my hobbit servers to xymon. I started with a new (replacement) network test server, since I thought that'd be simplest to update invisibly to my users. I'm running Xymon 4.3.5 on NetBSD 5.1. # /usr/pkg/libexec/xymon/xymongrep bgp 2011-10-20 10:40:41 Cannot load /usr/pkg/libexec/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg, or file is empty And my DISPLAY server says (as I'm not allowing the new server to talk to it yet): Latest errormessages: Refused message from 129.186.6.39: config hosts.cfg Running ktrace on xymongrep, it isn't ever looking at the local file or even trying to, it's only ever trying to fetch it from the DISPLAY. # /usr/pkg/libexec/xymon/xymongrep --hosts=/usr/pkg/etc/xymon/hosts.cfg bgp 2011-10-20 10:48:05 Cannot load /usr/pkg/etc/xymon/hosts.cfg, or file is empty I've set HOSTSCFG, I've made sure hosts.cfg is in /usr/pkg/etc/xymon/hosts.cfg and /usr/pkg/libexec/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg is a link to that. The xymon user has access/ownership all the way along both paths. # grep bgp /usr/pkg/etc/xymon/hosts.cfg 0.0.0.0 name1.iastate.edu # ciscocpu bgp noclear 0.0.0.0 name2.iastate.edu # ciscocpu bgp noclear 0.0.0.0 name3.iastate.edu # ciscocpu bgp noclear 0.0.0.0 name4.iastate.edu # ciscocpu bgp noclear (masked out IPs & names for our bgp routers.) What did I miss in my configuration? Thanks, Tracy

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