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AIX df command problem
by sholmes42＠mac.com 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

I am having a problem similar to one recently posted, but this is on an AIX host and is caused (I think) by a problem in the way xymon does df on AIX. The xymon version is 4.2.3 and the AIX OS version is 3.5 (I think, I'm a Solaris Admin). Anyway, I can find no way to force the df on AIX to use POSIX formatting AND to report only local file systems. Even if I could, I don't think I can override what xymon uses for df since the comments in the hobbitclient.cfg file say that the envariable definition is only there for compatibility and it is not used. The problem is that an NFS mount file system line in the df output is being parsed wrong and the number in the usage column is being used for the percent used (Available) so that is a huge number. Not only that, again similar to the previous problem, the file system name is being picked up as the contents of the last 3 fields in the output line, i.e. it is not /mnt/tsmupdates (which is what it should be) but "3020485 50% /tsm/updates", which, of course, prevents me from effectively ignoring that file system. I've tried using DISK %.*/mnt/.* IGNORE and that doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions? We have a big red page where we shouldn't have. Thanks, Steve -- The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. -Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968) Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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httpstatus inconsistency
by troy＠athabascau.ca 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

I have two servers (monitor5 and monitor3) running Xymon 4.3.2 that both have the same hosts.cfg entries for a particular host. The entry uses the httpstatus test and goes like this: 192.168.0.29 camilla # postgresql \ http://MyUrlA \ httpstatus=dbB;https://MyUrlB;200 \ httpstatus=dbC;https://MyUrlC;200 \ http://MyUrlD The strange thing, is that when dbC fails with a non 200.... on monitor3 dbC and http tests show red on monitor5 dbC shows red and http shows green Why do the two monitoring servers behave differently? Any idea where to look? thanks, Troy -- 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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How does the vmstat.rrd file get populated?
by greg.shea＠emc.com 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hi all, I have added 2 channel processes to my Xymon 4.3.3 instance, that reads data from the status and data channels and writes that data to a file for integration with another product. I have a Solaris 10 client running a standard build no bottom-feeders and I have a vmstat.rrd file, but I'm not seeing the vmstat data off my 2 channel processors. How does the standard Xymon client send the file $XYMONHOME/tmp/xymon_vmstat.hostname.12558 to the server? I'm using Henrik's simple shell script and the --processor option on the rrd channels xymon 8312 8291 0 Jun14 ? 00:00:31 xymond_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-data.log xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh xymon 8566 8312 0 Jun14 ? 00:02:50 xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh xymon 10987 5997 0 14:36 pts/2 00:00:00 grep rrd xymon 28358 8291 0 Jun17 ? 00:03:20 xymond_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/xymon/rrd-status.log xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh xymon 28359 28358 0 Jun17 ? 00:11:16 xymond_rrd --rrddir=/apps/xymon/data/rrd --processor=/apps/xymon/server/ext/rrdfeeder.sh If I use the bottom feeder scripts, vmstat gets written to my output file. Thanks and regards Greg Shea EMC Corporation

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Who has an example of monitoring LDAP
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Others have come up with good suggestions that depend on what you are running. We have a cluster of LDAP servers that replicate across each other so we ended up creating our own script that writes a known value in to the root server (date/time for example), waits 30 seconds and then reads the value from all the consumers. If the values match then it's all working fine. It's simple but it tests the LDAP system thoroughly. |\/| From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Eenkhoorn, (Klaas) Sent: 26 May 2011 10:50 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Who has an example of monitoring LDAP All, Who has an config example for monitoring LDAP ? Met vriendelijke groet, Klaas D. Eenkhoorn Senior Beheerder UNIX ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vts Politie Nederland VG - Noord Oost Hanzelaan 95, gebouw 45, 8017 JE Zwolle Doorkiesnummer: 038-4976326 Mobiel: 06-27035452 Helpen Nederland veiliger te maken (c) [2008] vts Politie Nederland, all rights reserved. -------------------------Disclaimer------------------------------- De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde(n) en zij die van de geadresseerde(n) toestemming kregen dit bericht te lezen. Gebruik door anderen dan geadresseerde(n) is verboden. De informatie in dit e-mailbericht (en bijlagen) kan vertrouwelijk van aard zijn en kan binnen het bereik vallen van een geheimhoudingsplicht en een verschoningsrecht. ------------------------------------------------------------------- [Colt Disclaimer] The message is intended for the named addressee only and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone else, nor may it be copied in any way. The contents of this message and its attachments are confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the named addressee and/or have received this message in error, please advise us by e-mailing abuse at colt.net and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Internet communications are not secure and Colt does not accept responsibility for this message, its contents nor responsibility for any viruses. No contracts can be created or varied on behalf of Colt Technology Services, its subsidiaries, group companies or affiliates ("Colt") and any other party by email communications unless expressly agreed in writing with such other party. Please note that incoming emails will be automatically scanned to eliminate potential viruses and unsolicited promotional emails. For more information refer to www.colt.net or contact us on +44(0)20 7390 3900

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Issue with the hardware monitoring.
by Srinivas.Katragadda＠in.unisys.com 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

We are monitoring about Windows 2003, 340+ servers using the Xymon. We have various models like of IBM,HP and DELL. We have installed the respective client packages like IBM Director, HP Insight and DELL Open Manage agents on the client side. We have configured appropriate community strings. Out of which very few of them we are able to get the status. Majority of the servers were not able to do the hardware monitoring. Checked the SNMP configuration at the client side several times, did not find any issue with it. We have opened all the required ports for this one. Can any of you help to get the light of this issue? Thanks and Regards, Srinivas | UGSI | Enterprise Computing Group | EXT:7573087 -> Desk --> +91-80-40323087 e-mail: srinivas.katragadda at in.unisys.com No Defeat is final, Untill you stop trying.

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client problems
by SKreien＠la-z-boy.com 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Anyone? Bueller? Scot Kreienkamp From: Scot Kreienkamp Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 2:07 PM To: 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: client problems Hi everyone, Due to some frustrations with the existing clients I have decided to have a go at rolling my own. In the process I have run into some strange behavior with the server side data collector/processor that I've been struggling with for over a week now that I could really use some help with. I've been searching the man pages and the email archives and haven't been able to find anything like what I've run into. My first try with sending reports was with the CPU column. After figuring out that the server was crashing because my lines were too long, I am able to send in a complete report as verified by the client data screen. However, the data collector isn't processing it correctly for reasons that I am unable to determine. First, once it gets past the last line of the cpu section on the web page there are a few processes that repeat. Second, the first line of text containing the up/load/procs message isn't bold like in other hosts. Third, the CPU load number is never added to the RRD. I have run several tcpdumps on other clients to capture their submissions and I was able to fix some problems by comparing mine to those, but now mine looks identical from what I can tell. Here is what the top and bottom of the pages look like: The last 6 lines are duplicates of the lines above. That is not included in the data that was sent though, so how is it getting it? Also, why isn't the value being picked up for the RRD? Here's my client data report: [collector:] client corpdskreien,na,lzb,hq.bbwin win32 [date] Mon June 27 13:37:05 2011 [osversion] Microsoft Windows 7 X64 Service Pack 0 Build 7600 [cpu] up: 2 days, 1 users, 73 procs, load=1% CPU PID Image Name Memory Owner 0% 4 System 56280K 0% 332 smss.exe 1324K SYSTEM 0% 420 csrss.exe 4924K SYSTEM 0% 524 wininit.exe 4628K SYSTEM 0% 564 services.exe 11432K SYSTEM 0% 584 lsass.exe 18472K SYSTEM 0% 592 lsm.exe 6528K SYSTEM 0% 708 svchost.exe 10092K SYSTEM 0% 840 svchost.exe 9776K NETWORK SERVICE 0% 944 svchost.exe 20036K LOCAL SERVICE 0% 988 svchost.exe 137268K SYSTEM 0% 1016 svchost.exe 41676K SYSTEM 0% 424 audiodg.exe 17672K LOCAL SERVICE 0% 1084 svchost.exe 16328K LOCAL SERVICE 0% 1180 Smc.exe 9316K SYSTEM 0% 1240 svchost.exe 29444K NETWORK SERVICE 0% 1304 ccSvcHst.exe 2696K SYSTEM 0% 1524 spoolsv.exe 17628K SYSTEM 0% 1560 svchost.exe 14452K LOCAL SERVICE 0% 1684 atashost.exe 3624K SYSTEM 0% 1716 BESClient.exe 7108K SYSTEM 0% 1748 svchost.exe 10344K LOCAL SERVICE 0% 1788 mdm.exe 5724K SYSTEM 0% 1840 MotoHelper.exe 23804K SYSTEM 0% 432 Rtvscan.exe 808K SYSTEM 0% 1940 wsnm.exe 5904K SYSTEM 0% 2792 svchost.exe 5952K NETWORK SERVICE 0% 2584 SearchIndexer.exe 39820K SYSTEM 0% 2724 csrss.exe 30080K SYSTEM 0% 2020 winlogon.exe 6244K SYSTEM 0% 1520 taskhost.exe 10488K skreien 0% 684 dwm.exe 5964K skreien 0% 1952 explorer.exe 66160K skreien 0% 3332 Spark.exe 80640K skreien 0% 3388 BTTray.exe 9564K skreien 0% 3396 SnagIt32.exe 22072K skreien 0% 3420 openvpn-gui-1.0.3.exe 4948K skreien 0% 3432 jusched.exe 6896K skreien 0% 3440 ccApp.exe 748K skreien 0% 3552 AdobeARM.exe 10792K skreien 0% 3564 concentr.exe 6188K skreien 0% 3576 SmcGui.exe 7032K skreien 0% 3680 qttask.exe 3900K skreien 0% 3724 wfcrun32.exe 9064K skreien 0% 3760 TscHelp.exe 3656K skreien 0% 3768 SnagPriv.exe 4124K skreien 0% 3792 ProtectionUtilSurrogate.exe 13808K skreien 0% 4348 jucheck.exe 10004K skreien 0% 3308 OUTLOOK.EXE 157256K skreien 0% 4212 OSPPSVC.EXE 13144K NETWORK SERVICE 0% 2628 vRD70.exe 127780K skreien 0% 4216 putty.exe 8896K skreien 0% 3672 iexplore.exe 43748K skreien 0% 2332 iexplore.exe 53600K skreien 0% 1928 BESClientUI.exe 1172K skreien 0% 3992 wireshark.exe 90848K skreien 0% 3480 iexplore.exe 54908K skreien 0% 2964 iexplore.exe 156008K skreien 0% 2640 PresentationFontCache.exe 23012K LOCAL SERVICE 0% 3112 taskmgr.exe 11796K skreien 0% 5500 dumpcap.exe 7172K skreien 0% 4048 conhost.exe 3464K skreien 0% 5440 iexplore.exe 118652K skreien 0% 5884 SciTE.exe 15576K skreien 0% 4648 WmiPrvSE.exe 22620K SYSTEM 0% 5408 AutoIt3Help.exe 20852K skreien 0% 5592 SearchProtocolHost.exe 16488K skreien 0% 6080 SearchFilterHost.exe 5888K SYSTEM 0% 1872 AutoIt3Wrapper.exe 10552K skreien 0% 2388 AutoIt3_x64.exe 24936K skreien 0% 908 AutoIt3Wrapper.exe 8548K skreien 0% 1704 WmiPrvSE.exe 7456K NETWORK SERVICE [clock] epoch: 1309181827 local: Mon June 27 13:37:05 2011 I can send them in as client side reports and all is well, but it doesn't work when using the data collector/client message. Oh... also, how do I pull the client side config from the xymon server? Thanks for the help. Scot Kreienkamp This message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential information which is exempt from disclosure under applicable laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that you are strictly prohibited from disseminating or distributing this information (other than to the intended recipient) or copying this information. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail or by telephone at the above number. Thank you.

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Install xymon server
by enzo＠arroyof.com 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hello i'm new in this software, please where can i find documentation about how to install xymon? Thank you, regards. Enviado desde mi BlackBerry® de Vodafone

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xymon 4.3.3 svcstatus
by pnixon＠gmail.com 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Scott, Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm getting the error below: [Wed Jun 29 11:38:47 2011] [error] [client 10.1.1.50] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/usr/local/xymon/cgi-bin/svcstatus.sh' failed, referer: http://10.1.1.101/xymon/ On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Scott Pfister <icepickjazz at gmail.com>wrote: > Both xymon 4.2.3 and xymon 4.3.2 run on my my mac without issue. I've > been trying to get xymon 4.3.3 running, but I am having difficulties. > The xymon 4.3.3 svcstatus cgi script is throwing apache errors: Premature > end of script headers: svcstatus.sh, referer: > http://localhost/xymon/xymon.html. > I tried setting debug in the svstatus.sh by changing the script to exec > /Users/hobbit/server/bin/svcstatus.cgi $CGI_SVC_OPTS --debug 2>&1 > 1>/tmp/cgi.log. Not much shows up in the log. > > http://localhost/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=mymac&SERVICE=xymongenreturns the following: > > # more cgi.log > 52417 2011-05-21 22:32:07 CGI: Request method='GET', > data='HOST=mymac&SERVICE=xymongen' > > No core files to be found anywhere. > > Any thoughts on how to resolve the issue? I'm stumped. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > >

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AIX memory checks
by mailinglist0＠skurfer.com 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

We’re seeing garbage data on some of our AIX (7.1) clients like this: red Thu Jun 23 15:29:28 EDT 2011 - Memory CRITICAL Memory Used Total Percentage &red Physical 18446744073709551177M 4096M18446744073709551606% &green Swap 40M 4096M 0% The ones that exhibit problems have Active Memory Expansion enabled. Is there anything we can do to get valid data? Should I report it as a bug? -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>

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change xymon server ip address
by massimiliano.angei＠akhela.com 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hi, We must change IP address of the xymon server. Once you change address is enough to change the occurrences of the old ip in the *. cfg files or we need to perform some particular action (ie reinstall?) regards, Massimiliano A.

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