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Newbie: some alerts not firing
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Thank you all again, everything is working now. xymond_alert --test and pcretest were hugely useful. We're running BB and xymon in parallel right now for acceptance testing and very happy with it. It's *so* much easier to configure.

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Changing the order of the graphs on the trends page?
by isolderj＠hotmail.com 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Is it possible to change the order of the graphs on the trends page. i looked in the mailling list archive but i didn;t see anything immediately obvious. Thanks

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Hobbit-trap won't display traps]
by jtsikoudaki＠ontelecoms.com 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hello again... Has anyone got any idea in how to handle the following? Sorry to bring it up again but I haven't found anything to help... I am really stuck here... Josephine > > 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. > plain text document attachment (ATT2638439.txt), "ATT2638439.txt" > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Background GIFs Improperly Displayed on Host-Service Pages
by jbhoren＠alaska.edu 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

I configured, compiled, and installed xymon-4.3.0 according to the directions in docs/upgrade-to-430.txt (I've been running xymon-4.3.0beta2 for the past 15 months... with no problems). Everything works fine... except that the backgrounds displayed on the pages generated for host-service tests appear to be displayed improperly. Rather than having a single vertical stripe of color on the left-hand side of the page, which changes to black over an approximately inch-wide gradient, the vertical stripe-and-gradient are displayed over and over, across the width of the page... like waves. It's horribly disconcerting, and I cannot believe that this is by-design. Any ideas on what's-what? -- JONATHAN B. HOREN ARSC/LSI Systems Administrator WRRB/008-001 T: (907) 450-8694 E: jbhoren at alaska.edu *"After Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F!!"*

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Newbie: some alerts not firing
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Can anyone tell me why these alerts aren't firing? Running xymon 4.3.0 on Oracle Linux. The services are alerting and the generic paging rules are sending alerts for them; these rules are supposed to email particular teams in addition. (am I wrong in thinking that more than one rule can match a particular alert?) HOST=db* EXHOST=*dl2* SERVICE=oradb,orasys,oradns MAIL dba-support REPEAT=1d RECOVERED # email dba's in addition to above HOST=redirect* EXSERVICE=msgs MAIL redirectteam at example.com REPEAT=1d RECOVERED If anyone wants to see the entire alerts.cfg I stuck it at http://pastebin.com/RWAqKnHQ (minus the comment lines at the top)

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Recover message when going from red to yellow
by johan.sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi. So far, we have only set up alerts for red color. Because of this, we changed xymonserver.cfg and added yellow to OKCOLORS instead of ALERTCOLORS to get recovery messages when a test goes from red to yellow. Now we want to set up some mail alerts for yellow as well, and to be able to do that, yellow has to be in ALERTCOLORS. I tried adding it to both OKCOLORS and ALERTCOLORS, but that did not work, so it seems like our options are either to have recovery messages for red->yellow or to be able to send alerts for yellow, but not both at the same time. Would it be possible to get Xymon to send a recovery message when a test goes from red to yellow, if the alert trigger is only configured to alert on red? Or maybe just an updated alert with the new color? Best regards, Johan

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Xymon 4.3.0 - Build RPMs
by leobozi＠yahoo.com 24 Mar '11

24 Mar '11

Hi, The Xymon 4.3.0 was released and has anyone already tried to build RPMs for CentOS 5? Thanks in advance. Leonardo Bozi ______________________________________________ leobozi at yahoo.com

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xymond hanging
by lebarber＠gmail.com 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

I just experienced a problem with 4.3, it appears that the xymond was hung and was not processing updates. I am currently running 4.3 in parallel with our production 4.2 Hobbit and noticed that some of the statuses weren't synched up between the two versions (I'm using xymonproxy to feed both instances the same data). I tried to run "xymon xxx 'xymondboard'" and it timed out trying to communicate with xymond. I then stopped Xymon, checked to make sure all the process were down, and noticed that xymond and xymonlaunch were still running. I killed them, then started Xymon and everything cleared up, the out of date statuses disappeared and everything looks to be in synch between my production and development instances. Has anybody else seen anything like this? If so, is there a fix for it. I would like to move Xymon to production, but this makes me a little nervous. I'm running both instances on RHEL4. Also, when I killed the hung processes I neglected to generate a core, if this happens again I'll be sure to create them. Thanks, Larry Barber

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4.3.0 reports multi-source status for disabled tests
by johan.sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi. Sometimes we get messages like this in the xymond test on our 4.3.0 Xymon server for tests that are disabled. Is this by design? It happens both for scheduled disables and for "ordinary" disables. Multi-source statuses xxx.xxx.se:bgpd reported by 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.3 Latest error messages: Ran scheduled task 1 from 192.168.1.3: disable xxx,xxx,se.bgpd 60 Disabled by: admin @ 192.168.107.52 Reason: maintenance /Johan

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Another Newbie question. What is supposed to run after entering URL
by CMoore＠corp.earthlink.com 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

OK. I've installed v4.3.0 into /home/xymon. It seems to have installed successfully on Solaris 10 or at least no major errors. The URL for getting into xymon http://svrnam/xymon which points to /home/xymon/server/www. This directory has: gifs/ help/ html/ menu/ notes/ phpinfo.php rep/ snap/ wml/ subdirectories under it. What script/executable/file is supposed to run upon entry by the browser? Shouldn't there be a index.html or similar in there to start things off? Charlie Moore

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