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Android 2.2 App
by darrik.lists＠darmasoft.com 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Hello, all. I wrote an android app to quickly assess status and issues. It basically parses the non-green view and generates a scrollable report. You can swipe each non-green test to open the service page for that test in a browser. This software is beta, but I'm reasonably certain it parses the non-green view for 4.2.3, 4.3.0, and 4.3.4 properly. Anyway, hope it's useful to someone. Source code is here: http://github.com/darrikmazey/XymonQV App is here: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.darmasoft.xymon Feedback is always welcome, as are feature requests, bug reports, and such. Cheers, Darrik -- Darrik Mazey DarmaSoft, LLC. 1627 Marigold Avenue Akron, Ohio 44301-2627 tele: 330.238.1333 darrik at darmasoft.com http://www.darmasoft.com/ To obtain my public key, send an email to darrik at publickey.darmasoft.com.

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Android 2.2 App on 2.3.3
by darrik.lists＠darmasoft.com 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- Subject: Re: [Xymon] Android 2.2 App on 2.3.3 From: Rob Munsch <Munsch at phillycarshare.org> To: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> CC: xymon at xymon.com On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Rob Munsch <Munsch at phillycarshare.org> wrote: Forking the Android thread as this is a different direction :) I've Android 2.3.3 on a Motorola Droid 2 Global and figured, what the hey, let's try it: it installs from the market, and while the first version crashed on startup, it accepts settings and runs. But when I open it (with my settings), it detects my Xymon version correctly but gives only STATUS: UNKNOWN. I think it's hitting my site - I see at the top above Status xymon.mydoma.in:8080 (4.3.0) And I am indeed running 4.3.0. I can also hit the site from the phone's browser with no issues. - What could be so different from .2 to .3.3 that could break it like this..? - Is there anything I can do or info I could send you that would help? The app works just fine on my Atrix with Android 2.3.4. Can you see your web server logs?? Anything in the error log?? What page request shows in the access log?? Ralph Mitchell Hmm, no entries except maybe Apache doesn't like how the app is trying to access things... this is in error.log: Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/ That's the only log entry remotely near my hitting Refresh in the app. Nothing in the Xymon logs, nothing in Access either (which fits with the app being negged). As Josh said, 0.2.0 will be out by Monday with the new api parser. Also, it contains a fix that will fix any errors where loading hangs. After that, if you're still having problems, enable debug logging, refresh a few times, and email the log to me. Darrik

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Ext tests for storage devices? EMC Celerra, Sun 7310, Data Domain DD-880 , other?)
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

As long as I'm asking, wondering if anyone has scripts to monitor EMC Celerra, Sun 7310, EMC Data Domain DD-880?

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Android 2.2 App on 2.3.3
by Munsch＠phillycarshare.org 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Rob Munsch <Munsch at phillycarshare.org> wrote: Forking the Android thread as this is a different direction :) I've Android 2.3.3 on a Motorola Droid 2 Global and figured, what the hey, let's try it: it installs from the market, and while the first version crashed on startup, it accepts settings and runs. But when I open it (with my settings), it detects my Xymon version correctly but gives only STATUS: UNKNOWN. I think it's hitting my site - I see at the top above Status xymon.mydoma.in:8080 (4.3.0) And I am indeed running 4.3.0. I can also hit the site from the phone's browser with no issues. - What could be so different from .2 to .3.3 that could break it like this..? - Is there anything I can do or info I could send you that would help? The app works just fine on my Atrix with Android 2.3.4. Can you see your web server logs?? Anything in the error log?? What page request shows in the access log?? Ralph Mitchell Hmm, no entries except maybe Apache doesn't like how the app is trying to access things... this is in error.log: Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/ That's the only log entry remotely near my hitting Refresh in the app. Nothing in the Xymon logs, nothing in Access either (which fits with the app being negged).

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critical systems page
by scerydog＠gmail.com 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

We are running xymon 4.2.3 on Solaris 10 within a data center of about 1000 servers. Would like to create a custom non-green screen that has only certain servers on it. So that the all windows servers are on one critical systems page and then all the unix servers will be on another page. I found a previous email about it, but it doesn't explain it fully. Wondering what steps I am missing! I have add this script to the cgi-bin directory, but not seeing any on the web page. #!/bin/sh # Pick only hosts on the "windows" page PAGE="windows" # Get red ones as priority 1 xymon 127.0.0.1 \ "xymondboard color=red fields=hostname,testname page=$PAGE" | \ awk '{ print $1 "||||1|||" }' > /tmp/crit_$$.cfg # Yellow ones get priority 2 xymon 127.0.0.1 \ "xymondboard color=yellow fields=hostname,testname page=$PAGE" | \ awk '{ print $1 "||||2|||" }' >> /tmp/crit_$$.cfg # Build the webpage . /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/cgioptions.cfg $XYMONHOME/bin/criticalview.cgi $CGI_CRITVIEW_OPTS \ --config=/tmp/crit_$$.cfg rm -f /tmp/crit_$$.cfg exit 0 Thanks -Scott Hanson

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Active Directory monitoring
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, I would like to know the best way to monitoring the Microsoft Active Directory, I've found BBdcdiags.vbs for BBWin, anything else around ? Thanks

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compilation error of xymon on solaris 10 sparc
by sailesh.mohabeer＠mns.intnet.mu 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, I am compiling xymon 4.3.5 on solaris 10 sparc. Please see error below. bash-3.00# gmake CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DSunOS" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="-I/usr/local/include" SSLFLAGS="-DHAVE_OPENSSL=1" SSLINCDIR="-I/usr/local/ssl/include " SSLLIBS="-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" LIBRTDEF="-lrt" XYMONTOPDIR="/xymon/hobbit" XYMONLOGDIR="/var/log/xymon" XYMONHOSTNAME="T1000" XYMONHOSTIP="192.168.10.128" XYMONHOSTOS="sunos" gmake -C lib all gmake[1]: Entering directory `/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/lib' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -c -o loadhosts.o loadhosts.c loadhosts_file.c: In function `load_hostnames': loadhosts_file.c:126: warning: 'insavchar' might be used uninitialized in this function ar cr libxymon.a osdefs.o acklog.o availability.o calc.o cgi.o cgiurls.o clientlocal.o color.o crondate.o digest.o encoding.o environ.o errormsg.o eventlog.o files.o headfoot.o xymonrrd.o holidays.o htmllog.o ipaccess.o loadalerts.o loadhosts.o loadcriticalconf.o locator.o links.o matching.o md5.o memory.o misc.o msort.o netservices.o notifylog.o readmib.o reportlog.o rmd160c.o sendmsg.o sha1.o sha2.o sig.o stackio.o strfunc.o suid.o timefunc.o timing.o tree.o url.o ranlib libxymon.a || echo "" ar cr xymonclient.a osdefs.o cgiurls.o color-client.o crondate.o digest.o encoding.o environ-client.o errormsg.o holidays.o ipaccess.o loadhosts.o md5.o memory.o misc.o msort.o rmd160c.o sendmsg.o sha1.o sha2.o sig.o stackio.o strfunc.o suid.o timefunc-client.o tree.o locator.o ranlib xymonclient.a || echo "" gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -DSTANDALONE -o loadhosts loadhosts.c ./libxymon.a -lrt loadhosts_file.c: In function `load_hostnames': loadhosts_file.c:126: warning: 'insavchar' might be used uninitialized in this function Undefined first referenced symbol in file recv ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) getservbyname ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) gethostbyname ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) socket ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) getsockopt ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) connect ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) inet_aton ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) inet_ntoa ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) shutdown ./libxymon.a(sendmsg.o) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to loadhosts collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[1]: *** [loadhosts] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/lib' gmake: *** [lib-build] Error 2 Regards, Sailesh

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Listening on Multiple IPs
by chris.ahrens＠macys.com 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, My Xymon server has 3 IP addresses that I want to spread out my incoming status messages on. I did not use the --listen so that xymond would come up to use 0.0.0.0:1984 and netstat shows it listening on 0.0.0.0:1984, but when I look at the network traffic 99.9% of it is on eth0. My client servers are using the dns entry of the Xymon server and dns has all 3 IP addresses of the Xymon server associated correctly. Any suggestions of what I may be doing wrong on the client or server? Christopher Ahrens Macy's Systems & Technology Off: (440) 233-7162 x3122 chris.ahrens at macys.com

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Anyone using Xymon to monitor Linux LVM volumes?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Before I invent the wheel, wondering if anyone's got a test going for linux LVM volumes? Perhaps using lvdisplay --all, or vgs/vgdisplay ? (I am not so familiar with LVM, have used Solaris SVM and Veritas and zfs and assorted storage devices) thanks Betsy

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Android 2.2 App
by s.seitz＠netz-haut.de 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi there, nice to see there's a discussion starting about an API. I wasn't aware of the [hobbit|xymon]dboard command, but after a few tests, I found an hobbitdxboard on my (obviously) older hobbit/xymon server. I don't know if that xboard command made it into newer xymon, it returns a self-explanatory XML structure, which could be easily parsed. Put an additional XML Header, add a DTD and you're finally done Inspired by your scriptlet, I've done a very similar one: #!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/xml" echo "" /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb localhost "hobbitdxboard $QUERY_STRING" -- Stephan Seitz Senior System Administrator netz-haut GmbH multimediale kommunikation Zweierweg 22 97074 Würzburg Telefon: 0931 2876247 Telefax: 0931 2876248 Web: www.netz-haut.de Amtsgericht Würzburg – HRB 10764 Geschäftsführer: Michael Daut, Kai Neugebauer Am Donnerstag, den 03.11.2011, 09:29 -0400 schrieb Ralph Mitchell: I was just thinking that xymondboard might be a good starting point for an API. I just put a very simple CGI script on my server: #!/bin/bash echo "Content-Type: text/plain" echo "" /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost "xymondboard $QUERY_STRING" then called it using curl: curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=red" curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=yellow" curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=purple" Piping those through "wc" I get a total of 3305 bytes for all three. Fetching the non-green page: curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon/nongreen.html" gives me 30070 bytes. Obviously that's going to depend on reporting activity - I currently only have 14 lines in the "events received in the past 240 minutes" block. Ralph Mitchell On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:55 AM, <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 07:01:32 -0400, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote: > Henrik, has the format of hobbitdboard / xymondboard changed much between > versions?? It would be fairly easy to make that available via a cgi script > and it would be easier to parse than html. No, this format is fairly static - and you can make it entirely "fixed" by adding a "fields" option to select the data-items you are interested in. But to pick only the hosts that appear on a specific page must be done on the Xymon server - you don't want to download a lot of info to the smartphone, just to throw it away later (unless you have a flat-rate data plan for your smartphone, and I don't). And when we have to code the filtering, we may just as well add the code to provide the data in a standardized format. Something similar to the xymondxboard output, probably. Regards, Henrik _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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