December 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Automated Reports
by dcunningham＠mecnet.net 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi All, I need some help and I hope someone out there can provide it. We are running xymon as our primary monitoring system for Internet circuits we provide to customers. Of course, when the circuits go down, we get alerts and it is logged in xymon. All this works great. However, we need an automated system that once per month will send an email with the event history for EACH circuit we monitor. I can see how to generate reports that give a percentage of the overall uptime. However, I need the actual history. For example, on connectivity monitoring, if the site went down for 5 minutes on the 5th of the month and for 10 minutes on the 15th of the month, I need the report to basically show exactly this information. If there were no events for that month, the entry should still be listed, just with no events. So, for example: Site 1: Site 2: Site 3: 12/5/11 - 5 minutes , 12/15/11 - 45 minutes Site 4: Site 5: Site 6: Site 7: 12/10/11 - 12 hours, 12/11/11 - 24 hours, 12/12/11 -24 hours, 12/13/11 - 10 hours Site 8: Site 9: Thank you for your help!

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Feature request - thresholds for CPU utilisation (not load average)
by wrichardson＠llbean.com 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

I see that Buchan asked for this a few years back. Has anyone done this. I would like to start alerting on %CPU not LOAD. I would still like to graph LOAD and have that show up under trends. The % CPU is already in Trends being graphed it would be nice just to pull that over to the CPU column. Here is the first request: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2008-February/017968.html Thanks Bill Richardson

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Windows load triggering only on default settings?
by hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

I can't get xymon to use the defined load settings for named hosts. It only reacts on the settings from the DEFAULT section. part of analysis.cfg: ... HOST=%ssnts.*,sspro01 TIME=W:0600:1800 LOAD 60 80 PROC %.*.EXE TRACK=Programme ... # These are the built-in defaults. DEFAULT UP 1h LOAD 15 25 DISK * 90 95 SWAP 50 80 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 client data for SSPRO01 as reported by bbwin 0.12: [collector:] client SSPRO01.bbwin win32 [date] Wed Dec 07 16:45:46 2011 [clock] epoch: 1323272746 local: Wed Dec 07 16:45:46 2011 UTC: Wed Dec 07 15:45:46 2011 [osversion] Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition Service Pack 2 (build 3790) [cpu] up: 0 days, 0 users, 45 procs, load=17% CPU states: total 17% cpu00 16.1% .... In this case the display goes to yellow because "17%" is between the default values 15 and 25. I've tried to add a percent sign to the host load definitions but that doesn't change anything. I hope the syntax for the HOST directive is right? Yours hjb

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question
by sofronie_emil＠yahoo.com 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hello, I just start to use xymon for a test using a xymonserver(linux), xymonclient(linux), and a windows client. I do not understand why for the linux client the CPU status it's not show. Please could you let me know what config file I have to adjust for it. Thanks Constantin

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error foe script to monitor database
by sailesh.mohabeer＠mns.intnet.mu 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi all, I have a script to monitor my oracle databse. I am getting the error below on my browser. The script where the error is happening is below. The problem is that the script is retuning a null value instead of my sid which is cnp1. Please can anyone help where there is a problem in the script. Database check: cnp1 is down or in hung state ERROR: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified SP2-0306: Invalid option. Usage: CONN[ECT] [{logon|/|proxy} [AS {SYSDBA|SYSOPER|SYSASM}] [edition=value]] where ::= [/][@] ::= [][/][@] SP2-0306: Invalid option. Usage: CONN[ECT] [{logon|/|proxy} [AS {SYSDBA|SYSOPER|SYSASM}] [edition=value]] where ::= [/][@] ::= [][/][@] SP2-0157: unable to CONNECT to ORACLE after 3 attempts, exiting SQL*Plus ################################################################ # DATABASE CHECK function ################################################################ function FUNC_DATABASE_CHECK { [[ "$DEBUG" = "Y" ]] && set -xv set -f # turn off globbing DB_CHECK=`$SQLPLUS -s $DB_USER/$DB_PASSWORD <<EOF 2>&1 set feedback off set pagesize 0 set trimspool on ttitle off btitle off set verify off set linesize 260 select '$ORACLE_SID is up' FROM dual / EOF ` if [[ "$DB_CHECK" != "$ORACLE_SID is up" ]]; then echo "$SPACER&red Database check: ${ORACLE_SID} is down or in hung state" for line in $DB_CHECK do DB="$DB $line" [[ "$line" = "" ]] && break done [[ -n $DB ]] && DB_CHECK="$DB" # move it to look good echo "<br>$DB_CHECK<br>" [[ "$DATABASE_NOTIFY" = "N" ]] && [[ "$COLOR" != "red" ]] && COLOR="yellow" || CO LOR='red' else echo "$SPACER&green Database check: ${ORACLE_SID} is up" fi } Regards, Sailesh

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Directory for patches to 4.3.6?
by Tom.Moore＠sas.com 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Hi Henrik, I want to start the process but I know there are already some bugs against 4.3.6 that you have posted the patches for on the mailing list. Unfortunately I lost those threads. I was wondering if there was somewhere on Sourceforge where these might be stored, so the average joe could go download the 4.3.6 tarball, then the additional patches. Or would that be the same as just downloading the current trunk? -Tom

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show netstat output?
by tsztur＠gmail.com 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Hello, Is there a way of getting XYMON to show the Netstat output of a particular server? The same way the 'procs' and/or 'cpu' view shows a list of tasks running. It would be nice to have a 'netstat' column which shows connections to the client. TIA! tom.

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xymoncgimsg.cgi
by stef.coene＠docum.org 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Hi, Some time ago Ralph Mitchell posted a message that he was able to use curl to post a message to the cgi script xymoncgimsg.cgi. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.hobbit/27772 I'm trying to do the same, but it's not working. Ralph, can you explain more in detail what you did? Or somebody else can help? The goal is to use ssl encryption between client and server. I also like the idea of using the https protocol for the communication. Stef

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Odd Error re: multiple simultaneous updates
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have a sense of what I might do to correct this? Nothing about this seems particularly wrong: 2011-12-06 16:27:11 RRD error updating /opt/xymon-4.2.3/data/rrd/<hostname>.umdnj.edu/ifstat.mac.rrd from 192.168.20.40: illegal attempt to update using time 1323206831 when last update time is 1323206831 (minimum one second step) <hostname> can be apparently any one of my machines running Solaris 10 from the looks of it. Thanks for any tips. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7eiqkACgkQmb+gadEcsb4OrACgzmdkbkgAI1NG8gvy6t6QnBjC DrYAn36Y06Y2O5pixK5DOV6J5pvTKJh2 =rhFW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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error on script
by P.vanEldijk＠uci.ru.nl 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

Op 7-12-2011 9:08, Sailesh schreef: > Hi all, > > I have an script for checking my database. I am getting an error but I > am unable to trouble shoot. > > Please see error . > > /xymon/client/ext/bb-roracle.ksh[58]: (VAR0+=2),(VAR1+=2): syntax error > > /xymon/client/ext/bb-roracle.ksh[58]: (VAR0+=2),(VAR1+=2): syntax error In ksh (and bash), you say: ((VAR0 += 2)) (spaces makes it more readable, but are not mandatory) regards, Paul

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