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IPv6
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

A question came up in a meeting this morning. Another group is going to be turning up some new machines that are going to have IPv6 on them. And actually doing work over IPv6. Does Xymon support IPv6? I'm assuming that there will be an IPv4 stack still on the machine, so we could most likely monitor that, but it would be nice if Xymon was keeping track of v6 as well. Paul Root - Engineer III - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink This communication is the property of CenturyLink 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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How to forward xymonserver os data to 2nd xymonserver?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hi, How do I forward the data (disk/cpu/etc) from one xymonserver to another in a HA-setup where both are active? /melgaard

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xymon disable bug or missing feature?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hi I'm posting this seperately now: But I found a curiosity when trying to disable things (both on a 4.3.4 and an old 4.4.0-beta): ./xymon localhost "disable host.conn 86028s Disabled by: blah @ 10.10.10.10 Reason: blah blah" Doesn't put the host in maintenance for 86028 seconds (almost 24 hrs) - instead it uses minutes (59 days instead) - is there a bug with the "s"-suffix that I don't know about - or am I using xymon disable wrong? The man-pages clealy indicates that you can use seconds, as a parameter: disable HOSTNAME.TESTNAME DURATION <additional text> Disables a specific test for DURATION minutes. This will cause the status of this test to be listed as "blue" on the Xymon server, and no alerts for this host/test will be generated. If DURATION is given as a number followed by s/m/h/d, it is interpreted as being in seconds/minutes/hours/days respectively. To disable a test until it becomes OK, use "-1" as the DURATION. To disable all tests for a host, use an asterisk "*" for TESTNAME. /melgaard

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Do i really ....
by klaas.eenkhoorn＠vtspn.nl 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

All, Do i really have to restart xymon server to read the new analysis.cfg file ? Kl@@s -------------------------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. -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Xymon Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi Gautam, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gautam Balothia > Sent: 08/10/11 11:18 AM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] Xymon Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9 > > I am facing issue with netstat on windows 2008 box. I have insatlled BBWin 0.12 in central mode. It started giving the netstat status after sometime it went to purple. I checked not net not much is given except some changes in xymonserver.cfg file. My parameters in file are listed below. Can somebody suggest me how to recover or make the netstat working on windows box. >   > MAXMSG_STATUS="15728640"MAXMSG_DATA="15728640"MAXMSG_CLIENT="15728640" Netstat only works in local mode. It's BBWin specific - not part of Xymon. Regards, Malcolm

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Synchronize disabled servers from one xymon installation to another?
by Carl.Melgaard＠STAB.RM.DK 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi, Is there an easy way to synchronize xymon disabled status (servers put in maintenance) from 1 xymon server to another (a standby server)? /melgaard

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Xymon Digest, Vol 7, Issue 9
by balothia＠rediffmail.com 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi All,   I am facing issue with netstat on windows 2008 box. I have insatlled BBWin 0.12 in central mode. It started giving the netstat status after sometime it went to purple. I checked not net not much is given except some changes in xymonserver.cfg file. My parameters in file are listed below. Can somebody suggest me how to recover or make the netstat working on windows box.   MAXMSG_STATUS="15728640"MAXMSG_DATA="15728640"MAXMSG_CLIENT="15728640" Thanks, Gautam

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httpstatus inconsistency
by troy＠athabascau.ca 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Henrik> I assume the both monitor3 and monitor5 are running the network tests Henrik> (the [xymonnet] task), and they are the same version? Yes to both questions: [xymon at monitor5 ~]$ server/bin/xymoncmd xymonnet --version 2011-08-09 10:28:49 Using default environment file /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg xymonnet version 4.3.2 SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8e-rhel5 01 Jul 2008 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20343 [xymon at monitor5 ~]$ [xymon at monitor3 ~]$ server/bin/xymoncmd xymonnet --version 2011-08-09 10:27:51 Using default environment file /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg xymonnet version 4.3.2 SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8e-rhel5 01 Jul 2008 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20343 [xymon at monitor3 ~]$ Henrik> Could you provide the output from running Henrik> Henrik> xymoncmd xymonnet --no-update --debug camilla Henrik> Henrik> on the two Xymon servers when it fails ? Yes, I set up a test host (tesla) to simulate the problem (delay + bad HTTP status) that I had with the production host (camilla) and ran: [xymon at monitor3 ~]$ server/bin/xymoncmd xymonnet --no-update --debug tesla ...on both monitoring servers and attached the results and the '/home/xymon/data/hist/tesla' contents. The hosts.cfg entries are: 192.168.0.2 tesla # ssh http://tesla httpstatus=dbB;http://tesla/cgi/dbB.pl;200; httpstatus=dbC;http://tesla/cgi/dbC.pl;200; The only difference that I know of between the monitoring servers is that monitor5 has an 'analysis.cfg' with: HOST=tesla DS http %.*http.*:sec >0.660 COLOR=yellow TEXT="Time exceeds &U at &V seconds." With the above monitor5:analysis.cfg directive; the status is reported as yellow; without it is reported as red. It looks like the analysis.cfg entry causes Xymon to mask the red with the yellow. Any help understanding this would be appreciated. - Troy

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Cloud
by koobos＠gmail.com 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Does anyone know if there is an image for Xymon so that I can run on AWS or the like? I only have shared access on my server and pretty sure I need root to install. Thanks!

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httpstatus inconsistency
by henrik＠hswn.dk 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

On 27-06-2011 20:03, Troy Adams wrote: > 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 I assume the both monitor3 and monitor5 are running the network tests (the [xymonnet] task), and they are the same version? Could you provide the output from running xymoncmd xymonnet --no-update --debug camilla on the two Xymon servers when it fails ? Regards, Henrik

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