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BBWin on Windows 7 64-bit
by david.ritch＠gmail.com 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

I'm having trouble getting BBWin to run on my Windows 7-SP1 64-bit machine. The bbwincmd command works fine from the command line, so I'm guessing that there may be a problem with my BBWin.cfg. Could someone take a look at it, and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Here's what happens when I run bbwincmd: C:\Program Files (x86)\BBWin\bin>bbwincmd BasementServer status BigShot cpu green Test bbdisplay defined to : BasementServer port defined to : 1984 hostname defined to: BigShot Sending status ... Sending to BasementServer : status BigShot.cpu green Test And I see on my Xymon server that the test appears. However, nothing reaches the server from my bbwin service. In fact, I've watched port 1984 using Wireshark, and I see the traffic when I run bbwincmd, but nothing from the bbwin service. Bbwin logs that it starts up, and logs "The agent externals generated this event message : No externals have been specified", and sends nothing to the Xymon server. Here's my BBWin.cfg file. I modified it from the default to set the bbdisplay and hostname. Later, I added the loglevel. I've modes of central and local, and see the same results. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <bbwin> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="BasementServer" /> <setting name="hostname" value="BigShot" /> <setting name="loglevel" value="4" />       <setting name="mode" value="central" /> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" /> <setting name="autoreload" value="true" /> <setting name="timer" value="5m" /> <load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/> <load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/> <load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/> <load name="filesystem" value="filesystem.dll"/> <load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/> <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/> <load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/> <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/> <load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/> <load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/> <load name="who" value="who.dll"/> <setting name="loglevel" value="3" /> <setting name="logpath" value="C:\Program Files\BBWin\logs\BBWin.log"/>  <setting name="logreportfailure" value="true" /> </bbwin> <cpu>  <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <setting name="default" warnlevel="90" paniclevel="95" delay="3" /> </cpu> <disk>  <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />  <setting name="default" warnlevel="85%" paniclevel="95%" />   <setting name="remote" value="false" />  <setting name="cdrom" value="false" /> </disk> <externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />  </externals> <memory>  <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <setting name="physical" warnlevel="78" paniclevel="98" /> <setting name="page" warnlevel="70" paniclevel="90" /> <setting name="virtual" warnlevel="78" paniclevel="90" /> </memory> <msgs> <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <setting name="delay" value="1h" /> <match logfile="System" type="error" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" /> <match logfile="Application" type="error" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="Application" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" /> <match logfile="Security" type="fail" />  </msgs> <procs>  </procs> <svcs>  <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />  <setting name="autoreset" value="false" /> <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />  </svcs> <uptime> <setting name="delay" value="30m" /> <setting name="maxdelay" value="365d" /> </uptime> </configuration> Thanks! David

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soap error
by marco.avvisano＠regione.toscana.it 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Il 03/03/2011 13.57, Ralph Mitchell ha scritto: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Marco Avvisano > <marco.avvisano at regione.toscana.it > <mailto:marco.avvisano at regione.toscana.it>> wrote: > > Sorry, write in italian .. > > I solved changing xml, but not work if use https: > > soap=webtest;https:/cert.pem@/my.server/MonitoredService/MonitorService;file:/opt/xymon/server/xml/MonitoredService.xml; > > > error message is: > > > Bad Request > > Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. > Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. > Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. > > > I got the above message recently too. In my case it was because I had > compiled Xymon without openssl. It didn't have the necessary > libraries to be able to setup the secure connection. > > Ralph Mitchell thanks, I checked and actually miss those libraries: /opt/xymon/server/bin/xymonnet --version xymonnet version 4.3.0-0.20110123.rc1 I'll try to recompile it Marco

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Hobbit-trap won't display traps
by jtsikoudaki＠ontelecoms.com 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hello all I am having trouble receiving SNMP traps from my hosts using the implementation of: http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html In details: I followed the instructions in my hobbit server. We have several servers and some dell DRAC consoles among them. When I enable the snmp alerts through the DRAC and send a test alert I receive the trap and the "trap" column is created and the trap message appears. When I send a test trap from a server (not a console) i see the trap coming in my hobbit-server logs, both from snmptrapd and snmptt, but the trap column never appears for this host, the trap is not being displayed and i don't see anything in the snmpttunknown log or the ghost client menu of Hobbit. If it wasn't for the consoles I'd presumed that perhaps the trap.pl or trap.sh scripts won't work correctly but given the successful results of the method in the DRAC consoles I wonder what can possibly be wrong... The servers that I run the tests from all have hobbit client installed but I tried also from a server without the client installed, simply sending a trap test to the hobbit server. No results either. I would appreciate any suggestions... Thanks a lot Josephine.

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NOPROPRED on custom pages
by bb4＠richter-it.net 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am running XYmon 4.3.0.0-beta2 self compiled on Debian Squeeze. I am using alternate pagesets for different groups. The last days I've been asked if it is possible that the top page only changes the color if production systems are affected. I know I can achieve this with the NOPROPRED resp. NOPROPYELLOW tag for ALL pages the servers appear on. But I only want to do this on the alternate pageset of one group not the overall view of the admins. TIA Torsten - -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | E-mail : bb4 [at] richter-it.net | | | | Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Download my public key from: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?search=0x899093AC&op=get -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAk1tfx8ACgkQ7DlmxomQk6y/rwCcDMXNq4YsNEIrIFU7jyC2xtZu 8YYAn0NsRHuwe/e8brA0GxlkeK/DpSi8 =LYYy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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depends without depends
by troy＠athabascau.ca 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

We just had a switch go down. With respect to the servers on that network, the server's conn went red but services such as http went clear. I didn't write any depends=(http:switch.company.com/conn) into the config. Is a dependency on conn just automatic? If so, how do I shut the automatic dependency off? ....probably I'm missing something. Troy Troy Adams Athabasca University __ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communications received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. ---

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Reversing the effects of a 'bb 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME TEST"' command
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

----- "Jonathan B. Horen" <jbhoren at alaska.edu> wrote: > !@#$% > > I've never been good a dealing with the aftermath of purple alerts, Why do you get so many purple alerts, and why is there an "aftermath" ? > and always end-up using brute-force to remove all hostname references > in $XYMON/data. Why? > But this time I really screwed-up and ran > > bb 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME TEST" > > for the purple-affected hosts... and now I can't get 'em back! They were purple because they were not being reported (e.g. the client was running, or running with wrong host name, or bbnet was not testing them for some reason). Getting them back (to show on the display) takes the same steps as resolving the original purple problem, get them to be reported on ... > I need help/suggestions/advice If you want the historical data too, restore from backup (data/hist/${MACHINE}.${test} and data/histlogs/${MACHINEDOTS}/${test}) Regards, Buchan

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need help with 2 IPs for same host name
by cathy.smith＠pnl.gov 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Folks Is there a way to list 2 different IP addresses for the same host name in the bb-hosts configuration file? We run Hobbit on a RedHat 4 box. Thanks. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.2330 Email: cathy.smith at pnl.gov

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multiple graphs on one page
by joe.acquisto＠gmail.com 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

I've been digging for a while and cannot find how I can put two graphs on one page. Kind of like the trends page. While I see the --multigraph option, I am not certain this is what I want. Nor can I see how I could associate multiple graphs with a single page. Thanks.

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SNMP destination (eg. not DevMon)
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Is anyone aware of any direction I might look for supporting RECEIVING SNMP traps from devices (not querying them via SNMP)? I have a device that can set an SNMP destination, but I don't believe has support for being queried by SNMP (if it does, it is a slightly moot point as it is not on a network that can be accessed easily remotely). Happy to just hear the name of a script or software if you know of one. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |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/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0wt54ACgkQmb+gadEcsb4GKgCeJX00n1JUtslrCVwiLhSLNP2G h/oAn2cyFCiL4mkPyANKA8L3QOCc74Xb =eM/D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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