October 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

monitoring aggregated network traffic
by icepickjazz＠gmail.com 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

On Friday 14 October 2011, Stef Coene wrote: > I use this to graph the memory usage of AIX lpars running on the same hardware > box. So I create a subdirectory 'data/rrd/pSerie1' and in the subdirectory I > create symlinks for each server running on that pSerie: > vmstat-server1.rrd -> ../server1/vmstat.rrd > vmstat-server2.rrd -> ../server2/vmstat.rrd > vmstat-server3.rrd -> ../server3/vmstat.rrd That's a good idea. Do you do similar aggregation with other graph points on the lpars running on same hardware? like Physical CPU? If so would you be willing to share those graph definitions? thanks

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trigger an alert from the response time of a network service
by olivier＠audry.fr 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

hello Guys what about this in the 4.3 changelog * Data going into graphs can now be used to alter a status, e.g. to trigger an alert from the response time of a network service. where can I find the documentation about this ? thx oau

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monitoring aggregated network traffic
by s.seitz＠netz-haut.de 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hi, is there any "usual" way, to monitor and graph the traffic of a bulk of network interfaces? The reason is, some of our hosts are connected to iSCSI storages via multipath over two or four independent interfaces. Since the traffic is balanced equally, every interface shows (more or less) the same amount of traffic. This leads to very useless rrdtool graphics as there is only one multicolored thick line visible. It would be really helpful to see a graph which shows the SUM of the particular interfaces. I've recently tried to hack an own ifconfig script which does the calculation and adds an fake "aggr0" interface, but for some reason, that fake interface doesn't show up. It's visible under the [ifstat] section, but i assume the rrdtool relies on some other info. Cheers, Stephan

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Problems compiling 4.3.5 client on Solaris 10
by mdunne＠isc.upenn.edu 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hi All, I've been working on installing the xymon client onto a solaris 10 systems and have encountered some errors. I'd appreciate any assistance the list could provide. When I run sudo configure.client I see: Checking for Large File Support ... ERROR: LFS support check failed for standard file support Checking for clock_gettime() requiring librt ... clock_gettime() requires librt Thanks, Mike

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ghostly graphic-links
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi ! I've got a mysterious problem, because there are too many graph-links (dead links) on the trend-page for my SPLITNCV-Graphs .. ... see http://desy.de/~flemming/afss3.png (The first afss3-graph is right and pretty but follows of ghostly links) Im running [xymon01] /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin # ./xymongen --version xymongen version 4.3.4 but this problem was already there with older versions :-( I startet with a normal NVC-method and there was everything ok i've got one afss.rrd and could show every of my 20 value in a seperate graph on the trend-page ... but now i want to use the SPLITNCV-Method to have for each value one seperate rrd, so i can compare each value for several servers .. this also works but unfortunaltey ony with these addittional ghostly/dead links :-( Has somebody an idea what's going wrong ? thanks & Cheers martin

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bb-roracle.ksh
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Here is my bb-roracle.ksh v2.20 that I modified to work with HP-UX's KSH88 (/bin/ksh) shell. Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 AM, <xymon-digest-help at xymon.com> wrote: > > From: Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:14:34 +0800 > Subject: Re: [xymon] bb-roracle.ksh > See attached. > I don't recall what version of ksh I was using for this one, but I do recall it worked on the Sol8 and Sol10 default ksh. > (The default version doesn't support most of the string manipulation commands, which makes me think it's the older version) > > It did require two additional config files. > One, defined the tests to perform, and the other defined your list of databases. > Then you also had to make sure your tnsnames was available. > Instead of trying to set the path, I used to symbolically link it into the ~/client/etc/ directory. > > Give it a whirl, and see how you go. > Sorry I can't be more specific, but it's been some time since I last did database monitoring. > > Regards > Vernon > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Gore, David W <david.gore at verizonbusiness.com> wrote: >> >> Has anybody ported this script to ksh93? I made some changes to get it half running but perhaps someone has done a more thorough and complete job who knows the differences between the older and newer Korn shells? >> >> >> >> ~David Gore >> >> >

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nosslcert tag not doing what I thought it did
by sholmes42＠mac.com 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Still running Xymon 4.2.3 so... I have a need to do a content test on an https url on a dev server that has self signed certificates. The customer just wants Xymon to get through to the first page and check the content without having to mess with the certificate. I thought putting nosslcert on that host would do the trick, but I couldn't see that it changed anything on the resulting page. nosslcert turned the sslcert icon purple, but it didn't change the behavior of the content test. We want to be able to skip the ssl warning and the need to click to proceed to the page. Apparently curl, wget and nagios all have options to do this (although I haven't actually tested that on nagios) so I'd be surprised if Xymon doesn't. Is there another way to do that? Thanks, Steve -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958) Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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Xymon 4.3.5 released
by tcomtom＠me.com 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hello, I am currently trying to create graphs separately from xymon to provide stats for our customer. We do not want to let them view our entire network. I realize that when i did a rrdtool dump for memory or disk, there are separate rrd databases but the DS name is the same. Ofcourse, you cannot have the same DS name when you rrdtool graph etc.... Could you tell me how I can create the same graphs on xymon? Thank you, Tom

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Trends page - Premature end of scriptheaders: svcstatus.sh
by s.seitz＠netz-haut.de 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi, "Premature end of script headers" usually indicates the absence of a content-type header. The error could be a result of your particular cgi configuration. Anyway, you could verify this issue by simply adding echo "Content-type: text/html" echo "" to the respective .sh script. Just get sure these lines are inserted before any other output is generated. If this solves your issue, you might want to read the documentation of your cgi implementation, if (and how) this can be fixed at cgi level. Cheers, Stephan Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2011, 15:25 +0200 schrieb Patrik Nilsson: No one else seeing this error? This is on a new 4.3.5 install on openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) 2.6.37.6-0.7. Best, Patrik -----Original Message----- From: "Patrik Nilsson" <patrik.nilsson at mrgreen.com> To: <xymon at xymon.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:49:45 +0200 Subject: [Xymon] Trends page - Premature end of script headers: svcstatus.sh Hi, On a newly installed 4.3.5, if I go into a trends page and specify a Trends period och click on Update, I get a "Premature end of script headers: svcstatus.sh" Error 500. It does not seem to matter what time period I specify, it always result in the same error. Best regards, Patrik Nilsson

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Trends page - Premature end of scriptheaders: svcstatus.sh
by patrik.nilsson＠mrgreen.com 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

This is the standard xymon svcstatus.sh cgi script. It works fine on other pages, it only causes this error on the trends page, when choosing a "Trends period" different from the default. Patrik -----Original Message----- From: "netz-haut - stephan seitz" <s.seitz at netz-haut.de> To: <patrik.nilsson at mrgreen.com> Cc: <xymon at xymon.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:30:36 +0200 Subject: Re: [Xymon] Trends page - Premature end of scriptheaders: svcstatus.sh Hi, "Premature end of script headers" usually indicates the absence of a content-type header. The error could be a result of your particular cgi configuration. Anyway, you could verify this issue by simply adding echo "Content-type: text/html" echo "" to the respective .sh script. Just get sure these lines are inserted before any other output is generated. If this solves your issue, you might want to read the documentation of your cgi implementation, if (and how) this can be fixed at cgi level. Cheers, Stephan Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2011, 15:25 +0200 schrieb Patrik Nilsson: No one else seeing this error? This is on a new 4.3.5 install on openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) 2.6.37.6-0.7. Best, Patrik -----Original Message----- From: "Patrik Nilsson" <patrik.nilsson at mrgreen.com> To: <xymon at xymon.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:49:45 +0200 Subject: [Xymon] Trends page - Premature end of script headers: svcstatus.sh Hi, On a newly installed 4.3.5, if I go into a trends page and specify a Trends period och click on Update, I get a "Premature end of script headers: svcstatus.sh" Error 500. It does not seem to matter what time period I specify, it always result in the same error. Best regards, Patrik Nilsson

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