June 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Case sensitive DISK file systems
by stuffle＠us.ibm.com 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

I have machines with 2 separate file systems: /opt/IBM and /opt/ibm. Xymon is getting confused when it updates the disk rrd graphs. It appears to be thinking upper case and lower case IBM are the same thing. It creates both rrd files, but tries to update the same rrd file twice, once for each file system. Is something that can be done to make Xymon case sensitive when it goes to update the disk rrds? David

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xymon/bbwin and windows disk check
by indymichaelb＠gmail.com 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Been using xymon for years, just added bbwin for windows clients. Have the windows clients in central mode Getting alerts for a windows disk filling up, tried to ignore it like I do for linux clients in hobbit-clients.cfg HOST=name DISK D 101 101 But that is not working. It's behaving as if it were in local mode, or similar. Suggestions/advice?

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html_mail.pl help
by willowbrookmagic＠hotmail.com 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

That worked for me and i added it into production. Thanks for the great work! Nick > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:58:47 +1000 > From: david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au > To: willowbrookmagic at hotmail.com > CC: kk1051 at att.com; David.Baldwin at ausport.gov.au > Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help > > Nick and Kevin, > > This isn't tested, but may do the trick. Let me know how it goes. > Forward me a copy of the message it generates. I have lifted the CSS > from SVN for Xymon, so should be OK. > > The subject line tag is trying to be tricky to choose between Hobbit and > Xymon. Feel free to hard code to suit... > > David. > > -- > David Baldwin - IT Unit > Australian Sports Commission www.ausport.gov.au > Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 > david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit http://www.ausport.gov.au > > This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Bad xymonclient-runtime.cfg perms on 4.3.3 client
by hobbit＠epperson.homelinux.net 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

This may help someone, or it may already be a FAQ that I didn't find. I have a 4.3.3 client prototype running on a RHEL 5.6 platform hardened to about 90% of the Center for Internet Security RHEL5 benchmark (customer standard). In /etc/default/xymon-client, XYMONSERVERS was correctly set, but the client kept trying to connect to 127.0.0.1. After much head-banging, I realized that clientlaunch.log was griping about not being unable to READ /var/run/xymonclient-runtime.cfg, which after all was being correctly updated with the XYMSRV setting from XYMONSERVERS at every launch. Found that it was root:adm with 640 perms, apparently root startup could write it but xymon child daemon could not read. chowned to root:xymon and all is well even after multiple restarts. CIS umask setting for root is 0077, so it looks like whatever creates this explicitly sets the perms. I installed via rpm built from current Sourceforge 4.3.3 tarball using Francois Herbert's March instructions for fixing the broken spec file, in case that has any bearing. I don't see anything in the spec or init files setting perms on the file.

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Http through proxy server on Xymon 4.3.2
by willowbrookmagic＠hotmail.com 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

I had this in 4.3.0 beta2 * I changed the information to protect the innocent 0.0.0.0 test.test.com # noconn http://10.10.10.10:8080/http://test.test.com/ in Xymon 4.3.2 I get: Wed Jun 8 16:10:31 2011: Bad Request http://10.10.10.10:8080/http://test.test.com/ - Bad Request HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Proxy-Connection: close Connection: close Content-Length: 4592 Seconds: 0.01 not sure why this is not working

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html_mail.pl help
by david.baldwin＠ausport.gov.au 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

On 6/06/11 9:24 PM, KING, KEVIN (ATTSI) wrote: > > David, > > > > I do not see the new version on Xymonton site. > My apologies. I've uploaded the version I'm currently using in prod. It includes a link to the test page at the top of the message. Didn't get to finish testing a version using CSS for background info. Let me know if you still have a problem with background images using this version. David. > > > > -Kevin > > > > *From:*David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au] > *Sent:* Monday, May 30, 2011 3:23 AM > *To:* KING, KEVIN (ATTSI) > *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com > *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help > > > > Kevin, > > > > I am clear on the Xymon-mailack. The text issue is resolved by the > changing to text for the response. I am testing the delay feature. I > sent a sample of the mail to you off list. > > All good! > > IS there a way to stop the repeating background color band? It should > only have the one on the left side. Is that something outlook is doing > or the output from the html_mail.pl? > > Sorry, I didn't realise the repeating background was still a problem. > I misunderstood when you said you'd got it working... > > The repeating background image is odd. I haven't seen that before. > What version of Outlook do you use? > > I just checked the HTML in the message, and the background images I am > using (which I'm pretty sure are the default set) actually have an > image width of 1800 pixels, so any repeat (which is actually default > behaviour) should be way off to the right out of sight. > > The script should be fixed to use CSS body properties rather than > various properties of the BODY tag, in which case the image could > possibly be made less wide, although then the background colour would > have to be black rather than the status colour. Unlikely that would > cause much problem in this day and age though? > > Oh and anything on the mail message length? The full message is not > sent. No link to the test page in the message. > > I've just gone back and checked what html_mail.pl code I am using in > prod vs Xymonton version - I'd added a link at the top in my current > prod version, but will use CSS to do backgrounds and make background > explicitly not repeat in 'x' direction... > > I will create a new html_mail.pl v 1.3 tomorrow when I get time to > clean it up. It would be easier if xymonton had some kind of version > control then keeping it up to date would be a bit easier. > > David. > > > > -Kevin > > > > *From:*David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:01 PM > *To:* KING, KEVIN (ATTSI) > *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> > *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help > > > > Kevin, > > Thanks David, > > > > I have it running now. I am finding that when using the email ack > function these messages are not getting parsed correctly. It is not > seeing the delay or and comment text. > > > > I have never used or tested the email ack function, so not sure what > it is expecting. > > > > Quite likely xymon-mailack doesn't handle MIME messages ("This is a > multi-part message" would indicate this), since there would be too > many options to have to cater for. > > It is possibly a side effect in your MUA (Outlook?) of receiving an > html formatted alert e-mail that by default an HTML reply will be > generated - can you configure your mail client to do a plain text > e-mail reply? Thunderbird has this feature in the address book > selectable per user. > > Did it work before you tried html_mail.pl ? > > I don't think it is a limitation of html_mail.pl as such, unless some > extra headers could assist in hinting to a MUA to reply in plaintext only. > > David. > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au] > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:58 PM > > > To: KING, KEVIN (ATTSI) > > > Cc: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> > > > Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help > > > > > > On 26/05/11 2:26 AM, KING, KEVIN (ATTSI) wrote: > > > > David, > > > > > > > > Where can I dl this? I goggled for it. But the hits I got were in the > > > > message archives and those are blocked to be at work. > > > > > > > http://xymonton.org/doku.php/alerts > > > > > > David. > > > > -Kevin > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > > >> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> > [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On > > > >> Behalf Of David Baldwin > > > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:51 PM > > > >> To: Joe Rindfleisch > > > >> Cc: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> > > > >> Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help > > > >> > > > >> Joe, > > > >>> I got your name from the html_mail.pl script. I recently updated > > > to > > > >>> xymon 4.3.2 and tried to go live in production. > > > >>> > > > >>> On all alerts it seems to send out alerts to this one email > > > address. > > > >>> it seems to send out to all that are intended to receive the emails > > > >>> but the one email has only two hosts that it monitors and gets > > > > alerts > > > >>> from. now it gets emails on the entire environment. > > > >>> > > > >> I can't follow what the problem is. > > > >> > > > >> The script gets called from the alerts.cfg file via the SCRIPT > > > > keyword. > > > >> The hosts it applies to will be determined by the alerts.cfg file > > > >> rules. > > > >> The recipient for e-mails is specified by the RCPT environment > > > > variable > > > >> when the script is called. > > > >> > > > >> Without the old and new config to compare, I can't help any further. > > > >>> I see a lot of references to BB, has this script been updated? > > > >>> > > > >> The environment variable names have not changed that I know of, but > > > I > > > >> haven't used it with 4.3.x myself yet. > > > >>> # Version Author Details > > > >>> # ------- ------ ------- > > > >>> # 1.0 Martin Ward Initial version. See code for > > > >> details. > > > >>> # 1.1 David Baldwin Clean up, remove hard-coded paths. > > > >>> # 1.2 David Baldwin format message as alternative parts > > > >>> for plaintext and HTML views > > > >>> > > > >>> thanks for your help > > > >> I've CCed to the xymon list which is a better place to get general > > > >> help. > > > >> > > > >> David. > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> David Baldwin - IT Unit > > > >> Australian Sports Commission www.ausport.gov.au > <http://www.ausport.gov.au> > > > >> Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 > > > >> david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au > <mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT > > > 2617 > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > >> -------------- > > > >> Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit > > > >> http://www.ausport.gov.au > > > >> > > > >> This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain > > > >> confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended > > > >> recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use > > > of > > > >> this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited > > > and > > > >> may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete > > > > it > > > >> and notify the sender. > > > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > >> -------------- > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Xymon mailing list > > > >> Xymon at xymon.com <mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> > > > >> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > > > > > > > > > -- > > > David Baldwin - IT Unit > > > Australian Sports Commission www.ausport.gov.au > <http://www.ausport.gov.au> > > > Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 > > > david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au > <mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce > ACT 2617 > > > > > > > > -- > David Baldwin - IT Unit > Australian Sports Commission www.ausport.gov.au <http://www.ausport.gov.au> > Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 > david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au <mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 > > > > > -- > David Baldwin - IT Unit > Australian Sports Commission www.ausport.gov.au <http://www.ausport.gov.au> > Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 > david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au <mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617 -- David Baldwin - IT Unit Australian Sports Commission www.ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617

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[hobbit] ephemeral tests - TheState
by didier.bringer＠orange-ftgroup.com 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Hello We are using here BB and TheState, we will move to xymon really soon and we are going to port TheState to Xymon unless someone has already done the job If you have information about this nice extension I will be pleased to read from you. If not we will provide you with a nice patch and a daemon, the idea of TheState is very "elegant" and we will try to do as elegant as possible. PS : I have a parc of 3000 servers -- Didier Bringer Responsable ingénieurs système Sophia-Antipolis France Telecom OF/DMGP/Portail/DOP/Hébex Tel 04 97 12 87 23 (redirigé vers le mobile en permanence) mob. 06 42 27 90 66 ******************************************************************************** IMPORTANT.Les informations contenues dans ce message electronique y compris les fichiers attaches sont strictement confidentielles et peuvent etre protegees par la loi. Ce message electronique est destine exclusivement au(x) destinataire(s) mentionne(s) ci-dessus. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur ou s il ne vous est pas destine, veuillez immediatement le signaler a l expediteur et effacer ce message et tous les fichiers eventuellement attaches. Toute lecture, exploitation ou transmission des informations contenues dans ce message est interdite. Tout message electronique est susceptible d alteration. A ce titre, le Groupe France Telecom decline toute responsabilite notamment s il a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. De meme, il appartient au destinataire de s assurer de l absence de tout virus. IMPORTANT.This e-mail message and any attachments are strictly confidential and may be protected by law. This message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. If you have received this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message. Any unauthorized view, usage or disclosure ofthis message is prohibited. Since e-mail messages may not be reliable, France Telecom Group shall not be liable for any message if modified, changed or falsified. Additionally the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. ********************************************************************************

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Proxying
by Paul.Root＠qwest.com 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi all, Due to the way our networks are setup over the long haul, I'm setting up a second xymon proxy server on another network. So I will now have a main server on our corporate network, it will handle all machines. Then I have 1 proxy on a private network. It is monitoring all 3 of our private networks and forwarding up to the main server, to itself (on port 1985) and to a test server (my 4.3.0 machine, that I need to upgrade). The second proxy will also monitor all 3 of the private networks, it is on one of the other private networks, and has its own route to the main server. The theory is that if we lose the MPLS between the networks, we still can get the info we need to the main. So my question is, is there any problem with 2 proxy servers sending the same info to the main? I have the first proxy set to monitor the main, and if the main goes down, it takes over alerting. I plan on having the 2nd proxy just monitor the 1st proxy (and the main) and if they are both down, it will send an alert for the oncall to manually have that machine start alerting. Paul. Paul Root Lead Internet Systems Eng CenturyLink This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.

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Barracuda Spam Appliance
by nicolas＠lienard.name 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi, I need to monitore a Barracuda appliance but at first, i'd like to know is somebody already did the external scripts. Otherwise, i see there is a nagios pluggin; http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Network-Gear/Barracuda Thanks. Cheers, Nicolas Lienard PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us <mailto:xymon%40xymon.com?Subject=Re%3A%20Barracuda%20Spam%20Appliance&In-Re ply-To=%3C3AB168498CFD3145A5D7EB4FE9365A6A53D81B%40geezil.somerville.ma.us%3 E> Thu Nov 16 14:18:14 CET 2006 * Previous message: Commercial support for Hobbit <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-November/010684.html> * Next message: hobbit-alerts TIME <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-November/010686.html> * Messages sorted by: [ date ] <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-November/date.html#10685> [ thread ] <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-November/thread.html#10685> [ subject ] <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-November/subject.html#10685> [ author ] <http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2006-November/author.html#10685> Hey All, Has anyone written an external application to monitor/graph the amount of email that a Barracuda Spam Appliance handles? Preferably, the XML page parsing, not SNMP, but if you got it, I can hack at it to make it work :) Thanks! --Pat

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Windows PS client svcs data missing
by SKreien＠la-z-boy.com 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

This is what I have so far: function XymonSvcsNET2 { $result = [reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.ServiceProcess") $Services = [System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController]::GetServices() $COLUMNNAME="Name" $COLUMNSTATUS="Status" $COLUMNDESCRIPTION="Description" #[Reflection.Assembly]::Load(‘System.ServiceProcess, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’) #get all the services installed on the local machine $serviceController = [System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController]::GetServices() "[svcs]" "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" "{0,-50} {1,-20} {2,-20}" -f ` $COLUMNNAME, $COLUMNSTATUS, $COLUMNDESCRIPTION "--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" foreach ($svc in $serviceController) { "{0,-50} {1,-20} {2,-20}" -f ` $svc.Name, $svc.Status, $svc.DisplayName } } I did get the formatting figured out finally after about 6 hours. The only piece that I cannot figure out is the service startup type, if I can get some help on that I think this is workable. I'm a complete newbie at powershell, so comments/help appreciated. Scot Kreienkamp Senior Systems Engineer skreien at la-z-boy.com From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Storer, Raymond Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:38 AM To: David Baldwin Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing David, you can also use the “Load” method instead as follows: [Reflection.Assembly]::Load(‘System.ServiceProcess, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’) Ray From: David Baldwin [mailto:David.Baldwin at ausport.gov.au] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:39 AM To: 'Scot Kreienkamp'; Storer, Raymond Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing Ray, Thanks for the code. I’m a bit wary of using something with such a version specific path though – is that seriously a “standard” interface to a .Net DLL that can be expected to have some degree of persistence? I’m offsite this week, will try to take a look next week. Thanks, David. From: Scot Kreienkamp [mailto:SKreien at la-z-boy.com] Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2011 5:54 AM To: Storer, Raymond; David Baldwin Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing Thank you Raymond… If I knew how to implement it I would. Hopefully David or Henrik can find the time to experiment with it. I'm seeing all kinds of problems with the PS client…. If this keeps up I'll have to remove it. It pegged one of my servers at 100% for over an hour, stuck on the WMI yesterday. Scot Kreienkamp Senior Systems Engineer skreien at la-z-boy.com From: Storer, Raymond [mailto:storerr at nibco.com] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:58 PM To: David Baldwin; Scot Kreienkamp Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing Opps… I missed the “.” in the [Reflection.Assembly]. Also, you can pipe it to out-null to avoid any unwanted output. So: [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile(‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.ServiceProcess.dll’) | out-null Ray From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Storer, Raymond Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:40 AM To: David Baldwin; Scot Kreienkamp Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows PS client svcs data missing Scot and David, if you’d prefer to implement a .net pure call for services you can try the following: # your path to the file may very [ReflectionAssembly]::LoadFile(‘C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.ServiceProcess.dll’) #get all the services installed on the local machine $serviceController = [System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController]::GetServices() foreach ($svc in $serviceController) { # should indicate: Stopped, Running, or Paused … others??? write-host $svc.Status # the service name write-host $svc.Name # the service display name write-host $svc.DisplayName } Ray [snip] ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. 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