December 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

ssh-test as default
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi ! .. maybe stupid question, but is it possible to test ssh for all hosts as default ? Currently i added the ssh-tag after each host particularly :-( thanks & cheers Martin

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19 Dec '11

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Max number of arguments to rrd?
by Tom.Moore＠sas.com 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

After the upgrade from 4.3,0 to 4.3.7, I seem to be having a strange issue where I have 48 datapoints I am trying to create the rrd from. It was working fine before, but now when my client sends the data it gives this error (names changed to protect the innocent) 2011-12-17 16:23:50 RRD error updating web.rrd from xx.xx.xx.xx: /usr/local/xymon/rrd/server.com/web.rrd: found extra data on update argument: 40:0:20:0:40:0:20:0:40:0:20:0:40:0:20:0 I can’t seem to tell if this is coming from rrdtool or xymon. Based on the rrdtool docs, there shouldn’t be any sort of limit to the number of arguments. I have another exact monitor, that is only sending 2 datapoints, and it is graphing fine. Just the 48 point one isn’t. Is there a way I can see what xymon_rrd is doing? And I just got another error for a completely different client program that gave same error found extra data on update argument: 0:0:0:0 So I don’t think I suddenly have broken client scripts. -- Tom Moore, RHCE Systems Administrator ▪ SAS Solutions OnDemand Tel: + 1 919 531 1925 ▪ tom.moore at sas.com SAS World Headquarters www.sas.com SAS® … THE POWER TO KNOW®

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Monitoring Oracle on Windows
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hi, Does anyone have a working example of a script to monitor Oracle running on a windows server. This needs to be a script that will run as an external on the client and not something running on the Xymon server. If anyone can help me get something up and running on this I'd be grateful. We've got bb-moracle.sh running on Unix servers but I'm struggling to find anything as good for Windows. Maybe I'm putting the wrong thing in google? Thanks, Neil Simmonds Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: neil.simmonds at Express-Gifts.co.uk Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority ------------- NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030

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No clients are showing up in xymon webpage
by y.goudetsidis＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hi David I removed all bbd tags but they still don't come up. :( On 12/17/2011 11:00 AM, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote: > Send Xymon mailing list submissions to > xymon at xymon.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > xymon-request at xymon.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > xymon-owner at xymon.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Xymon digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: No clients are showing up in xymon webpage > (Gore, David W (David)) > 2. Re: custom script fails when I add ssh command (oliver) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:24:13 -0500 > From: "Gore, David W (David)"<david.gore at verizon.com> > To: "xymon at xymon.com"<xymon at xymon.com> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] No clients are showing up in xymon webpage > Message-ID: > <9E95D92A6FE6D644AD42428C72C4B7C026733BF8 at FHDP1LUMXC7V42.us.one.verizon.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Remove the 'bbd' tag. > > ~David > > -----Original Message----- > From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Yanni > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 05:28 > To: Josh Luthman > Cc: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] No clients are showing up in xymon webpage > > Here it is: > > 193.63.56.174 paris.bbk.ac.uk # bbd http://paris.bbk.ac.uk/ > > 193.63.56.118 bs313.bbk.ac.uk # bbd > > 193.63.56.169 thor.bbk.ac.uk # bbd > > 193.63.56.116 bs243.bbk.ac.uk # bbd > > paris is the xymon server > bs313 and bs243 are windows XP clients and thor is a fedora box. > > paris comes up since it was setup automatically during the installation > bs243 also comes up but I don't get any tests. This is most likely > because of my configuration which I am still learning about. > > The rest of them they don't even come up on the xymon page and I just > don't see why. > > Thanks a lot > Yanni > > On 12/15/2011 05:43 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: >> Share your hosts.cfg so we can see what it looks like? >> >> Are these hosts not even getting a conn test? >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Yanni >> <y.goudetsidis at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I have defined 4 clients inside "hosts.cfg" but only one of them shows up >>> in xymon. Does anyone know why this is happening? >>> >>> Many thanks >>> Yanni >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:42:50 -0500 > From: oliver<ohemming at gmail.com> > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] custom script fails when I add ssh command > Message-ID: > <CAOAEFMUo1Y0Wcr-yLRTVDMcwr1ObQe1cp2gqA2k_iW7oVFa2PA at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Ralph Mitchell<ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote: >> I think ssh is "draining" the input stream, which in this case means the >> pipeline coming into the while loop.? Try redirecting the ssh input stream >> from /dev/null: >> >> ????? /usr/bin/ssh bwadmin@${MACHINE} "hostname"< /dev/null >> >> I tested that with this command line: >> >> ???? ls | while read a; do ssh 192.168.1.4 hostname< /dev/null ; done >> >> and got back the remote host name once for each file in the local directory. > Yes - that fixed everything. Thank you so much for the replying. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > End of Xymon Digest, Vol 11, Issue 17 > *************************************

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bb-roracle
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hi all I've just started using bb-roracle on my new xymon server. The problem I have is that the oradb test always appears on the 'localhost' entry when the test should appear on the DB server line. Any ideas? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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Windows load alerts
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 18 Dec '11

18 Dec '11

Hi all xymon 4.3.6 Just started monitoring a couple of engineering virtual workstations running Windows 7 (32 bit). Whenever they get above 10% CPU usage, xymon sends an alert: --- red Fri 16 Dec 10:54:28 2011 up: 2 days, 1 users, 51 procs, load=100% &red Load is CRITICAL --- Looking through the process list in the email, I see that the CPU is around %18 used. In /etc/xymon/analysis.cfg, I have: --- CLASS=win32 LOAD 80 90 --- These nodes are using the xymon powershell client. Any ideas how I resolve this? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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logfetch bug or trigger syntax in client-local.cfg?
by david.gore＠verizon.com 18 Dec '11

18 Dec '11

We are receiving core dumps of logfetch at irregular times but it is quite persistent. This is mostly on SunOS 10 SPARC clients with a 4.3.6 Xymon client build. Any ideas appreciated. Here is the back trace. [nmsbb at ipgomzspa03 client]$ ./gdb bin/logfetch core GNU gdb 6.2.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.10"... Core was generated by `/export/home/nmsbb/client/bin/logfetch /export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/logfetch.i'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libaio.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libaio.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libmd.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libmd.so.1 Reading symbols from /platform/sun4v/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /platform/SUNW,T5240/lib/libc_psr.so.1 #0 0xff282810 in __regexec_C () from /lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xff282810 in __regexec_C () from /lib/libc.so.1 #1 0x00012f5c in logdata (filename=0x3b180 "/var/adm/messages", logdef=0x3b13c) at logfetch.c:252 #2 0x00014730 in main (argc=1, argv=0x36000) at logfetch.c:963 Relevant portions of code: Around line 252: /* See if this is a trigger line */ if (logdef->triggercount) { int i, match = 0; for (i=0; ((i < logdef->ignorecount) && !match); i++) { match = (regexec(&trigexpr[i], fillpos, 0, NULL, 0) == 0); ← line 252 } if (match) { int sidx; sidx = lpidx - LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER; if (sidx < 0) sidx += (2*LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER + 1); triggerstartpos = linepos[sidx]; if (!triggerstartpos) triggerstartpos = buf; triggerlinecount = LINES_AROUND_TRIGGER; } } And line 963: switch (walk->checktype) { case C_LOG: data = logdata(walk->filename, &walk->check.logcheck); ← line 963 fprintf(stdout, "[msgs:%s]\n", walk->filename); fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", data); Triggers used (piped through cat ?vet): trigger ERROR trigger Error|Segmentation trigger Error|Segmentation trigger ChannelClosedException|ORA.|Memory|ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|ClassCircularityError|did not respond|CORBA TIMEOUT trigger ChannelClosedException|ORA.|Memory|ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|ClassCircularityError|did not respond|CORBA TIMEOUT trigger Memory|ERROR|FATAL|ClassCircularityError|did not respond|CORBA TIMEOUT trigger ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|(ORA\-)|OutOfMemoryError trigger ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|(ORA\-)|OutOfMemoryError [nmsbb at ipgomzspa03 tmp]$ grep trigger logfetch.ipgomzspa03.cfg|cat -vet trigger ERROR$ trigger Error|Segmentation$ trigger Error|Segmentation$ trigger ChannelClosedException|ORA.|Memory|ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|ClassCircularityError|did not respond|CORBA TIMEOUT$ trigger ChannelClosedException|ORA.|Memory|ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|ClassCircularityError|did not respond|CORBA TIMEOUT$ trigger Memory|ERROR|FATAL|ClassCircularityError|did not respond|CORBA TIMEOUT$ trigger ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|(ORA\-)|OutOfMemoryError$ trigger ERROR|FATAL|SQLException|(ORA\-)|OutOfMemoryError$ David Gore (v965-3670) Network Management Systems (NMS) IMPACT Transport Team Lead - SCSA, SCNA Page: 1-800-PAG-eMCI pin 1406090 Vnet: 965-3676

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custom script fails when I add ssh command
by ohemming＠gmail.com 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

I have 6 servers in my hosts.cfg file that use a custom script with a HOSTTAG of cdr The script is located at $XYMONHOME/ext/check_cdr.sh If I make it as basic as possible, it all runs perfectly. For example: ================================ #!/bin/bash -x HOSTTAG=cdr COLUMN=$HOSTTAG $XYMONHOME/bin/xymongrep $HOSTTAG | while read L do set $L # To get one line of output from xymongrep HOSTIP="$1" MACHINEDOTS="$2" MACHINE=`echo $2 | $SED -e's/\./,/g'` COLOR=green MSG="running on ${MACHINE}" $XYMON $XYMSRV "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` ${MSG} " done exit 0 ================================ I realise the test itself is useless, it's just to demonstrate the problem. Since I have the -x on the first line, I see it iterate through all 6 servers in the log file I specified in the tasks.cfg file This is part of the output, going from the first server to the second + /apps/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep cdr + read L + set 10.64.91.99 as1wdc1 '#' cdr + HOSTIP=10.64.91.99 + MACHINEDOTS=as1wdc1 ++ echo as1wdc1 ++ /usr/bin/sed '-es/\./,/g' + MACHINE=as1wdc1 + COLOR=green + MSG='running on as1wdc1' ++ date + /apps/xymon/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 'status as1wdc1.cdr green Thu Dec 15 20:57:41 GMT 2011 running on as1wdc1 ' + read L + set 10.64.123.67 as2dal1 '#' cdr + HOSTIP=10.64.123.67 + MACHINEDOTS=as2dal1 But if I add the following line to the script, directly above the "$XYMON $XYSERVER... " one, I only see the first server get queried before the script exits and ultimately, my other 5 servers go purple. /usr/bin/ssh bwadmin@${MACHINE} "hostname" With the ssh line, my last bit of output in the log file is: + /usr/bin/ssh bwadmin at as1wdc1 hostname AS1WDC1 ++ date + /apps/xymon/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 'status as1wdc1.cdr green Thu Dec 15 20 :52:37 GMT 2011 running on as1wdc1 ' + read L + exit 0 What is it about the ssh command that causes the "while read L" loop to fail? Thanks

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No clients are showing up in xymon webpage
by y.goudetsidis＠mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Hello I have defined 4 clients inside "hosts.cfg" but only one of them shows up in xymon. Does anyone know why this is happening? Many thanks Yanni

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