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hobbit-clients.cfg
by shailesh.paudyal＠gmail.com 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

hello, I have installed new xymon-4.3.0 version, I wanted to modify the threshold as I used to on older xymon releases using file hobbit-clients.cfg, I could not locate that file in the new one. Can anyone point me to the right direction? Thank you! -- Shailesh K. Paudyal shailesh.paudyal at gmail.com

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Rrd file isn't created
by henrik＠hswn.dk 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

>>> I have a test on a machine titled 'AMOS'. Xymon >> server is 4.2.3. > > No, the test is named AMOS, the machine is mdsobj3. OK, I misunderstood then - I thought the name of the machine was "AMOS". > MESSAGE="rows : $3" > . > . > . > > $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR $MESSAGE $id" Try putting a line-break before the $MESSAGE. Like $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR $MESSAGE $id" Regards, Henrik

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BBWin word pattern
by Daniel.Nordquist＠orlandohealth.com 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

No problem. I'm no pro with xymon, but I'm learning and I'm glad I could help! From: Camelia Anghel [mailto:canghel at cjh.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 2:43 PM To: Nordquist, Daniel Subject: RE: BBWin word pattern Thank you, I'll work with it. Camelia From: Nordquist, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:34 PM To: Camelia Anghel; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: BBWin word pattern It seems you could use a combination of match and ignore settings to achieve what you're looking for? Might take some work but I'm sure you could get there. <match logfile="System" value="text string you're looking for" source="source of the event" eventid="0000" /> <ignore logfile="System" value="text string you don't want" type="types you don't want" /> <ignore logfile="Application" source="source types you don't want" type="types you don't want" /> <ignore logfile="Security" source="source types you don't want" type="types you don't want" eventid="id's you don't want" /> Etc Etc Etc Might work? From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Nordquist, Daniel Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:08 PM To: Camelia Anghel; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] BBWin word pattern Does the word pattern you want to search for show up in the data on your hobbit server when you click on the msgs icon? From: Camelia Anghel [mailto:canghel at cjh.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:59 PM To: Nordquist, Daniel Subject: RE: BBWin word pattern Yes, I want to look in the data of the log for word pattern. Thanks Camelia From: Nordquist, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:55 PM To: Camelia Anghel; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: BBWin word pattern No difference in the type or source of the event logs? You want to look in the data of the log for your word pattern? From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Camelia Anghel Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:35 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] BBWin word pattern Hello, I have BBWin-0.12 and I am trying to shrink the EventLog msgs . Is there a way to use word pattern in the local-config.cfg file on the windows client? I would like to keep some EventLog id's with a certain pattern, but not all. Thanks, Camelia Camelia Anghel Database Coordinator Center for Jewish History 15 West 16 St, New York, NY 10011 phone:(917)606-8248 canghel at cjh.org ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health. ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health. ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health. ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health.

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BBWin word pattern
by Daniel.Nordquist＠orlandohealth.com 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Does the word pattern you want to search for show up in the data on your hobbit server when you click on the msgs icon? From: Camelia Anghel [mailto:canghel at cjh.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:59 PM To: Nordquist, Daniel Subject: RE: BBWin word pattern Yes, I want to look in the data of the log for word pattern. Thanks Camelia From: Nordquist, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:55 PM To: Camelia Anghel; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: BBWin word pattern No difference in the type or source of the event logs? You want to look in the data of the log for your word pattern? From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Camelia Anghel Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:35 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] BBWin word pattern Hello, I have BBWin-0.12 and I am trying to shrink the EventLog msgs . Is there a way to use word pattern in the local-config.cfg file on the windows client? I would like to keep some EventLog id's with a certain pattern, but not all. Thanks, Camelia Camelia Anghel Database Coordinator Center for Jewish History 15 West 16 St, New York, NY 10011 phone:(917)606-8248 canghel at cjh.org ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health. ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health.

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BBWin word pattern
by canghel＠cjh.org 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Hello, I have BBWin-0.12 and I am trying to shrink the EventLog msgs . Is there a way to use word pattern in the local-config.cfg file on the windows client? I would like to keep some EventLog id's with a certain pattern, but not all. Thanks, Camelia Camelia Anghel Database Coordinator Center for Jewish History 15 West 16 St, New York, NY 10011 phone:(917)606-8248 canghel at cjh.org

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how to split xymon display and xymon network test servers
by sholmes42＠mac.com 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

All, I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that after all this time using Xymon (and Hobbit and BB before that) I did not realize until today that Xymon does not use the keywords BBDISPLAY, BBNET and BBPAGER. So, now I have a need to split BBNET from the others and have been looking at the email archives and man pages but have found no explanation of how to do it. Note I'm still on Xymon 4.2.3. All I need is a pointer to instructions for how to configure what would be the BBNET server. The hobbitserver.cfg file talks about 'this server', but the variables there seem to be explicitly talking about the display server, so I'm confused. I know I need to run bbtest-net on the network test server, but how do I get it to send data to the display server? Thanks, Steve Holmes ITaP/ITSO/Unix Systems Administration Purdue University

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combostatus?
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

>From the man page for combo.cfg: A simple test - e.g. "Web1.http" - results in the value "1" if the http" test for server "Web1" is green, yellow or clear. It yields the value "0" if it is red, purple or blue. Can someone explain the thinking behind that for me? The reason I ask is because we are trying to reduce the number of columns we display. Any significant outage causes all sorts of columns to start lighting up. This causes the width of the xymon display to become very wide and quite unmanageable. So we decided to experiment with combo tests and noticed a couple things, yellow alerts do not cause the combo test to go red. Disabling (blue-ing) a test causes the combo test to go to red. I blue or disable tests so I will not see the alert, typically when one or more hosts is going down for a maintenance. Perhaps I am trying to use combo test in a way it was not designed for? Before I go looking in the code, to perhaps change what colors cause the combo test to fire, I would like to understand the thinking behind the combo test, assuming I cannot change the colors from a config file? ~David

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How can i change the format for e-mail alert.
by geoff.hallford＠gmail.com 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

I use a custom script to send emails and I had that problem as well. What I do prior to sending the email via the custom script is parse out the HTML using sed. It replaces the <BR> tag with a newline and removes all other items that are in the format "<anything>". BBALPHAMSG=`echo -e "$BBALPHAMSG" | sed -e 's/<BR[^>]*>/\n/'g -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'` On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com>wrote: > I use a custom script to send emails and I had that problem as well. What I > do prior to sending the email via the custom script is parse out the HTML > using sed. It replaces the <BR> tag with a newline and removes all other > items that are in the format "<anything>". > > BBALPHAMSG=`echo -e "$BBALPHAMSG" | sed -e 's/<BR[^>]*>/\n/'g -e > 's/<[^>]*>//g'` > > *"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the > first duty of intelligent men*" --George Orwell > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Josh Luthman < > josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > >> As a side note I use SMS format to my mobile via text (that is, being on >> Verizon 9375551234 at vtext.com) Works quite well. >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote: >> >>> Also, I'm sending this data as EMAIL to pagers, phone, mail accounts. >>> SMS format may not even be needed since I'm altering the standard output to >>> fit our needs. >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: Nordquist, Daniel [Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:14 AM >>> To: Tim McCloskey; xymon at xymon.com >>> Subject: RE: [Xymon] How can i change the format for e-mail alert. >>> >>> Doesn't the format=sms strip the subject from the email? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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hpux-meminfo.c patch
by innate.ideas＠gmail.com 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

The previous shell script I uploaded works for older HP-UX 11.11 versions.

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Memory utilization reporting for HP-UX 11.31 ia64
by innate.ideas＠gmail.com 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Here is an updated script we use to report memory utilization on HP-UX 11.31 ia64. The obnoxious part is that it requires a sudoer entry for the Xymon user to run /usr/bin/adb. #!/usr/bin/ksh # # This has been modified to compensate for ia64 reporting inaccuracy from swapinfo. It does in the case of ia64 require a # sudo entry to allow the user to execute a /usr/bin/adb command. # # 10 DEC 2010 Daniel Grahek # This script properly calculates memory values on HP-UX systems where memory # page size has been increased. Tested on HP-UX 11iv3 Itanium with 8k, 16k, and 64k # memory page sizes. # # This has been modified to compensate for ia64 reporting error from swapinfo. It does in the case of ia64 require a # sudo entry to allow the Xymon user to execute a /usr/bin/adb command. # sudoers entry something this should work: BB ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/adb # #This script replaces the binary hpux-meminfo in client/bin directory. #version 1.2 # Distributed under GPL v2 license. # HARDWARE=`uname -m` if [ "$HARDWARE" = "ia64" ] then FREEPAGES=`echo "freemem /2d" | /usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/bin/adb /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem 2>/dev/null |tail -1 |awk { 'print $2'}` PAGESIZE=`/usr/sbin/kctune base_pagesize |tail -1 |awk {'print $3'}` FREEMEM=`/usr/bin/expr $FREEPAGES \* $PAGESIZE` FREEREPORT=`/usr/bin/expr $FREEMEM / 1024` TOTAL=`/usr/sbin/swapinfo |grep ^memory |awk {'print $2'}` TOTALREPORT=`echo $TOTAL / 1024 |/usr/bin/bc` else FREE=`/usr/sbin/swapinfo |grep ^memory |awk {'print $4'}` FREEREPORT=`echo $FREE / 1024 |/usr/bin/bc` TOTAL=`/usr/sbin/swapinfo |grep ^memory |awk {'print $2'}` TOTALREPORT=`echo $TOTAL / 1024 |/usr/bin/bc` fi echo Total:$TOTALREPORT echo Free:$FREEREPORT

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