November 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

new apache performance graphs not working
by sholmes42＠mac.com 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Xymon 4.2.3. I'm really puzzled. I have been asked to add the apache performance graphs to a handfull of servers. I used the suggestion found on the 'tips' page under Help in the Xymon menu. Specifically: 1.2.3.4 my.server.com # conn ssh http://1.2.3.4 apache=http://1.2.3.4/server-status?auto TRENDS:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3 The puzzle is it works for the first one we did as a test. Then I copied the relevant bb-hosts configuration tags (http, apache, TRENDS) from that host to another two with changes to hostnames. The app admin made the necessary changes to the apache server. The server-status request works from a browser on both of the servers in question (running the browser on the Xymon server). There are apache.rrd files in the data/rrd directory, and the graphs appear on the trends page, but in there is no data being graphed. Nothing but NaN in the values at the bottom of the graph. I stopped Xymon and removed one of the apache.rrd files and restarted Xymon and have now waited a sufficient amount of time and still nothing is showing up in the graphs. What am I missing? I know I'm about 2 days behind on sleep, but this should just work, especially since it worked on the first one we did. Thanks, Steve Purdue University -- 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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Graphing a percentage
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Hi, We have a test watching our HP NA server and its attempts at taking a snapshot of all the customer routers. And I'd like a graph of the percentage of them up to date. The data looks something like this: Snapshot Frequency - Target: 1 day(s) 9940: Total Devices. (should be > 8000) 138: Age of most recent attempt in minutes. 0.7: Average age of attempts in days. 1.3: Age of oldest attempt in days. Current : 69.0% 6856 devices have current snapshot attempts. 0.0% of devices (0) have no attempts (threshold: 5%). yellow 31.0% of devices (3085) have past due attempts (threshold: 10%). I just changed it to give me the NCV for the percentage. However, I could change the output to whatever to get the desired result. This is what I've defined so far: xymonserver.cfg:TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,ops,stats,cifs,JVM,JMS,HitCache,Session,JDBCConn,ExecQueue,JTA,TblSpace,RollBack,MemReq,InvObj,snapmirr,snaplist,snapshot=ncv,if_load=devmon,temp=devmon,paging,mdc,mdchitpct,cics,dsa,getvis,maxuser,nparts,xymongen,xymonnet,xymonproxy,xymond,nfmsgw=ncv" GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,files,processes,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,ncv,netstat,ifstat,mrtg::1,ports,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,clock,lines,ops,stats,cifs,JVM,JMS,HitCache,Session,JDBCConn,ExecQueue,JTA,TblSpace,RollBack,MemReq,InvObj,snapmirr,snaplist,snapshot,devmon::1,if_load::1,temp,paging,mdc,mdchitpct,cics,dsa,getvis,maxuser,nparts,xymongen,xymonnet,xymonproxy,xymond" NCV_snapshot="Current:GAUGE" And I restarted the xymon server. But I'm not seeing an rrd file. Any ideas? Paul Root - Engineer III Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink This communication is the property of CenturyLink and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.

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Solaris X86 xymon configure problems
by keelie_ryan＠yahoo.com 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi Sailesh, I have run the configure & selected no to the OpenSSL I still get the same error. Thanks Keeloe Sent from my iPhone On 28 Nov 2011, at 12:23, "Sailesh" <sailesh.mohabeer at mns.intnet.mu> wrote: > Hi Keelie, > > Please do not select the OpenSSL while configuring the Xymon. Just select no and see if you can the same error. > > Regards, > Sailesh > > From: Keelie [mailto:keelie_ryan at yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 4:21 PM > To: Sailesh > Cc: <xymon at xymon.com> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Solaris X86 xymon configure problems > > Hi Sailesh, > > Thanks for your quick response. > I have ensured I have all the same packages as you have listed installed and I copy/pasted the path as you have suggested, I still get exactly the same error. > > I think my problem is more to do with the OpenSSL core dump during the configure stage rather than my env setup. > > Regards > Keelie > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28 Nov 2011, at 10:44, "Sailesh" <sailesh.mohabeer at mns.intnet.mu> wrote: > > Hi Keelie, > > Please find the packages I have installed on Solaris 10 Sparc. > > bash-3.00# ls > apache-2.2.21-sol10-sparc-local libtool-2.4-sol10-sparc-local > db-4.7.25.NC-sol10-sparc-local make-3.82-sol10-sparc-local > expat-2.0.1-sol10-sparc-local openldap-2.4.24-sol10-sparc-local > fontconfig-2.8.0-sol10-sparc-local openldap-2.4.26-sol10-sparc-local > fping-2.4b2-sol10-sparc-local openssl-1.0.0e-sol10-sparc-local > freetype-2.4.2-sol10-sparc-local pango-1.18.2-sol10-sparc-local > ganglia-3.0.7-sol10-sparc-local pcre-8.20-sol10-sparc-local > gcc-3.4.6-sol10-sparc-local prngd-0.9.25-sol10-sparc-local > glib-2.25.13-sol10-sparc-local render-0.8-sol10-sparc-local > jpeg-8a-sol10-sparc-local renderproto-0.9.3-sol10-sparc-local > jpeg2ps-1.9-sol10-sparc-local rrdtool-1.2.19-sol10-sparc-local > jpeginfo-1.6.1-sol10-sparc-local sasl-2.1.25-sol10-sparc-local > libart_lgpl-2.3.19-sol10-sparc-local tar-1.26-sol10-sparc-local > libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-sparc-local unrar-3.68-sol10-sparc-local > libiconv-1.14-sol10-sparc-local xrender-0.8.3-sol10-sparc-local > libintl-3.4.0-sol10-sparc-local xymon-4.2.2.tar > libpng-1.2.44-sol10-sparc-local zlib-1.2.5-sol10-sparc-local > > You do not have to link all these libraries. Go on http://sunfreeware.com/indexsparc10.html to download all the packages you required. > > The most important thing is to put the path in the correct order. > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/lib > > > Regards, > Sailesh > > From: Keelie [mailto:keelie_ryan at yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:23 PM > To: Sailesh > Cc: Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com; Rolands at logicaltech.com.au > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Solaris X86 xymon configure problems > > Hi All, > > Thanks for all your replies. I have already tried linking /usr/ccs/bin/ld to /usr/local/bin/ld, I found this troubleshooting step on google a few days ago, it didn’t help. I have unlinked it now and installed binutils, which has installed /usr/local/bin/ld. > I have now tried setting the xymon user path to that suggested, but unfortunately that hasn’t helped either. > > So far I have: > 1. Installed the following packages – > SMClgcc346 > SMCzlib > SMClintl > SMCliconv > SMCbinut > SMCcheck > SMCgmp > SMCcoreu > SMCcvs > SMCdb47 > SMCevtlog > SMCexpat > SMCftype > SMCfontc > SMCfping > SMCgcc > SMCxpm > SMClibpng > SMCjpeg > SMCgd > SMCncurs > SMCgdb > SMCgdbm > SMCgettxt > SMClibart > SMClibnet > SMClibt > SMCpcre > SMCslang > SMCglib > SMCmake > SMCossl > SMCsasl > SMColdap > SMCperl > SMCreadl > SMCrrdt > > 2. Added $(NETLIBS) before $(LIBRTDEF ) in all the Makefiles where it was missing > 3. Edited /var/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/xymonnet/ldaptest.c to move the #endif to line 97 > 4. Edited /var/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/build/test-rrd.c to add NULL, &ymin, &ymax to line 30 > 5. Edit /var/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/web/showgraph.c to add NULL, &ymin, &ymax to line 1156 > > Thanks > Keelie > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28 Nov 2011, at 04:12, "Sailesh" <sailesh.mohabeer at mns.intnet.mu> wrote: > > Hi, > > The path for the xymon user should be in this order to avoid the compilation problem. > > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/lib > > > Regards, > Sailesh > From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Novosielski > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 4:52 AM > To: Roland Soderstrom > Cc: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] Solaris X86 xymon configure problems > > This is absolutely not necessary and will drive your co-workers up the wall. I do not recall having any specific difficulties compiling though I do not remember which compiler. I can get back to you, but I wanted to chime in strongly against screwing around with system binaries. > > -- Sent from my Palm Pre > > On Nov 25, 2011 15:04, Roland Soderstrom <Rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote: > > Try using gnu make only, you need to mv /use/ccs/bin/make first and make a link to gnu make > Some packets has /use/ccs/bin/make hard coded > > Roland > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 25/11/2011, at 9:32 PM, "Keelie" <keelie_ryan at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Can anyone please shed any light on the issue I’m having. I’ve been troubleshooting xymon installation for over a week now, each time I fix one issue I hit another. > > This is the output of my ./configure: > > Configuration script for Xymon > > This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Xymon > > Checking your make-utility > Checking pre-requisites for building Xymon > > Checking for fping ... > Xymon has a built-in ping utility (xymonping) > However, it is not yet fully stable and therefore it > may be best to use the external fping utility instead. > I found fping in /usr/local/sbin/fping > Do you want to use it [Y/n] ? > Y > Checking to see if '/usr/local/sbin/fping 127.0.0.1' works ... > 127.0.0.1 is alive > OK, will use '/usr/local/sbin/fping' for ping tests > NOTE: If you are using an suid-root wrapper, make sure the 'xymond' > user is also allowed to run fping without having to enter passwords. > For 'sudo', add something like this to your 'sudoers' file: > xymon ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/fping > > > > Checking for RRDtool ... > Found RRDtool include files in /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/include > Found RRDtool libraries in /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/lib > Linking RRD with PNG library: -L/usr/lib -lpng > > > Checking for PCRE ... > Found PCRE include files in /usr/local/include > ld: warning: global symbol '_END_' has non-global binding: > (file /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so value=LOCL); > ld: warning: global symbol '_START_' has non-global binding: > (file /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so value=LOCL); > Found PCRE libraries in /usr/local/lib > > > Checking for OpenSSL ... > Found OpenSSL include files in /usr/local/ssl/include > collect2: ld terminated with signal 8 [Arithmetic Exception], core dumped > ld: warning: global symbol '_END_' has non-global binding: > (file /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so value=LOCL); > ld: warning: global symbol '_START_' has non-global binding: > (file /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so value=LOCL); > make: *** [test-link] Error 1 > WARNING: OpenSSL library files found in /usr/local/ssl/lib, but link fails. > Continuing with SSL support disabled. > > > Checking for LDAP ... > test-ldap.c: In function `main': > test-ldap.c:25: warning: implicit declaration of function `ldap_init' > test-ldap.c:25: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast > Found LDAP include files in /usr/include > Found LDAP libraries in /usr/lib > > > When I run make I get the following: > > CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="" RPATHOPT="" RRDDEF="" RRDINCDIR="-I/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/include" PCREINCDIR="-I/usr/local/include" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" RRDLIBS="-L/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/lib -lrrd -L/usr/lib -lpng" PCRELIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lpcre" LIBRTDEF="-lrt" XYMONTOPDIR="/opt/xymon" XYMONHOME="/opt/xymon/server" XYMONVAR="/opt/xymon/data" XYMONLOGDIR="/var/log/xymon" XYMONHOSTNAME="swpits2" XYMONHOSTIP="127.0.0.1" XYMONHOSTOS="sunos" XYMONUSER="xymon" CGIDIR="/opt/xymon/cgi-bin" SECURECGIDIR="/opt/xymon/cgi-secure" XYMONHOSTURL="/xymon" XYMONCGIURL="/xymon-cgi" SECUREXYMONCGIURL="/xymon-seccgi" MAILPROGRAM=""mailx"" RUNTIMEDEFS="" INSTALLWWWDIR="/opt/xymon/server/www" INSTALLETCDIR="/opt/xymon/server/etc" make -C web all > make[1]: Entering directory `/var/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/web' > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/var/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/include -I/usr/local/include -o showgraph.cgi showgraph.o ../lib/libxymon.a -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -L/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/lib -lrrd -L/usr/lib -lpng -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl -lrt > collect2: ld terminated with signal 8 [Arithmetic Exception], core dumped > ld: warning: global symbol '_END_' has non-global binding: > (file /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so value=LOCL); > ld: warning: global symbol '_START_' has non-global binding: > (file /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so value=LOCL); > make[1]: *** [showgraph.cgi] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/xymon/xymon-4.3.5/web' > make: *** [web-build] Error 2 > > ************************************************************************************************* > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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file monitoring
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi ! I've monitor one file, which should be updated on 4 hosts all 15 minutes On two host this analysis.cfg entry still works FILE /var/heimdal/heimdal.pag COLOR=red mtime<920 These machines are running clients with OS: SunOS netra33 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 But unfortunatley on the other two machines OS: SunOS heimdal2 5.10 Generic_141445-09 i86pc i386 i86pc i've got errro-messages "File is missing" :-( and a look into the client-data-msg shows : [file:/var/heimdal/heimdal.pag] ERROR: Value too large for defined data type Any hint is welcome :-) cheers Martin

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Feature requests, combo.d, uptime alert, xymonserver.cfg syncing
by david.gore＠verizon.com 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

* combo.d directory for combo includes. Helps to organize. * uptime configurable to be a red alert. Quite often a machine can reboot quickly and we can be unaware for some time, we would like to be alerted so we can restart all application processes ASAP to minimize downtime. >From xymond_client.c: if (cpucolor == COL_GREEN) cpucolor = COL_YELLOW; addtobuffer(upmsg, "&yellow Machine recently rebooted\n"); * TEST2RDD and GRAPHS variables moved to another file, perhaps an include for xymonserver.cfg? Why do I ask because we have dual Xymon servers running for redundancy and it would be nice if I could easily rsync these 2 variables in a file that does not have host specific variables. Currently I cannot rsync xymonserver.cfg because of the XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME, XYMONSERVERIP, XYMONSERVERWWWNAME variables. For the last one I am probably going to copy xymonserver.cfg to the second server and diff the files for anything but the 3 variables above and to send an alert to remind the person who made the GRAPHS and TEST2RDD changes to update the other server. As always thanks for the great work! ~David Gore

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Integrating Xymon into IBM Netcool/OMNIbus
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, Do anyone forward alerts into OMNIbus - and how have you approached this? Regards, Carl Melgaard

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RHEL RPM + SELinux
by viliam.pucik＠gmail.com 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

For those of you interested in better RPM package with also experimental SELinux support, there is rpm.patch for RHEL5/6 systems available at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3437504&group_id=128058&ati… which provides: * Fixed xymon and xymon-client init scripts based on Fedora/RHEL standards. * Configuration of init scripts stored in /etc/sysconfig. * Fixes RPM building warnings. * Experimental SELinux support - only know issues are not collecting ifconfig status and showgraph.cgi cannot send data to /var/lib/xymon/tmp/rrdctl.* (not sure if this is really an issue because graphs are correctly generated and displayed) To apply the patch and build RPMs simply download xymon 4.3.5 and rpm.patch from [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3437504&group_id=128058&ati… -> Attached File] and then: tar xf xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz cd xymon-4.3.5 patch -p1 < ../rpm.patch cp rpm/* $(rpmbuild -E '%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/SOURCES cd .. tar czf xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz xymon-4.3.5 cp xymon-4.3.5.tar.gz $(rpmbuild -E '%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/SOURCES cd $(rpmbuild -E '%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/SOURCES sed -ie 's/@VER@/4.3.5/' xymon.spec rpmbuild -bb xymon.spec At the end you should end up with Xymon RPMs in $(rpmbuild -E '%_topdir' 2>/dev/null)/RPMS/. SELinux support is in separate RPM package called xymon-selinux. Thanks, Viliam Pucik

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GROUP issue
by ragonlan＠gmail.com 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, I'm trying to configure GROUP alerts but I can't get it to work. alerts.cfg and analysis.cfg has this content: analysis.cfg: HOST=xymon1 LOAD 10.0 13.0 GROUP=UNIX_TEAM_PARTITION DISK / 20 24 GROUP=UNIX_TEAM_PARTITION DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 alerts.cfg: GROUP=UNIX_TEAM_PARTITION MAIL ragonlan at gmail.com FORMAT=TEXT RECOVERED 'info' test shows "no alerts defined" and indeed no mail is sent even if disk test is raising a panic alert. best regards,

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Web inerface for xymon alerts
by akshar.bhosale＠gmail.com 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Hi, we have xymon-4.2.2 and we are monitoring over 70 servers using xymon; Is there any web plugin available for managing hobbit-alerts fil because everytime i have to manually edit the file even for single service . Is there any remedy for this? thanks.. Akshar

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Xymon starts but logs errors.
by Dave.Munro＠rwe.com 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

Hi Folks, I have used BB for the past 10 years and have now decided to move to Xymon. After quite a few problems getting Xymon to Compile I just checking some stuff out before I make the required changes to httpd.conf. When I check the Log I see the following; 2011-11-28 13:59:48 xymonlaunch starting 2011-11-28 13:59:48 Loading tasklist configuration from /opt/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg 2011-11-28 13:59:48 Cannot open directory ld.so.1: xymond: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory 2011-11-28 13:59:48 Task xymond terminated by signal 9 ld.so.1: xymond: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory 2011-11-28 13:59:53 Task xymond terminated by signal 9 ld.so.1: xymond: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory 2011-11-28 13:59:58 Task xymond terminated by signal 9 Have checked and I do have /lib/ld.so.1 and /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 - Am I missing something really basic here? I'm running the XAMPP stack, Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0c PHP/5.3.8 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.12.1 Xymon is Version 4.3.3 Xymon user environment is; -bash-3.00$ env HZ= SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm LC_NUMERIC=C OLDPWD=/usr/local/lib LC_ALL= LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/etc/emc/rsa/cst/lib DSM_LOG=/rwe/log MAIL=/usr/mail/xymon PATH=/usr/sbin:/opt/quest/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/local/bin:/usr/loc al/rwe/bin:/opt/EMCpower/bin:/etc/emc/bin PWD=/opt/xymon LANG=en_US TZ=GB SHLVL=1 HOME=/opt/xymon LOGNAME=xymon _=/bin/env -bash-3.00$ Regards Dave Munro RWE Systems, Rainton House. Midrange Systems Admin Tel 01661814210 Mobile 07788710306 Email dave.munro at rwe.com RWE IT International Solaris Team. **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither the RWE Group of Companies nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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