August 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Spikes in activity.
by Neil.Simmonds＠express-gifts.co.uk 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Hi all, I've looked through the documentation for Xymon and I can't seem to find any way to only have an icon colour change if a threshold has been passed for x number of consecutive tests. I'm aware that alerts allow this kind of thing but would really like the dashboard not to change colour if we just get a spike in disk, cpu or memory usage (amongst other things). Is there any way to do this? Regards, Neil Simmonds Operations Analyst Operations Support Group Express Gifts Ltd. neil.simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk Tel :- 01254 303092 Fax :- 01254 303100 Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority ------------ NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030

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Looking for "page too old" script
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

I have a tsch script that does some things, manipulates and image and such and posts it on a web site. Occasionally, I have found a bug or two where the image stops updating. I don't know this until it is too late. Is there any sort of technique or custom script that will poll a website and see if something is to old? I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to correctly indicate a problem and hoping there is something I can start from already. Thanks in advance! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

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use of aberrant behavior detection
by Mario.Contreras＠tigo.com.co 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Hi We are using xymon/devmon pair and we want to use for some tests the "aberrant behavior detection" of RRDTOOL. Could someone please tell me what changes are necessary in XYMON configuration files to do so? I saw a similar question in the mail list back in 2005 but with no answer. Best regards Mario Contreras mario.contreras at tigo.com.co <mailto:mario.contreras at tigo.com.co> Este mensaje (incluyendo cualquier anexo) contiene informaci�n confidencial que se encuentra protegida por la ley. La informaci�n que contiene s�lo puede ser utilizada por la persona o la compa��a a la cual est� dirigido. Si usted no es un receptor autorizado, o por error recibe el mensaje, omita su contenido y elim�nelo inmediatamente. Cualquier retenci�n, difusi�n, distribuci�n y/o copia as� como la ejecuci�n de cualquier acci�n basado en el contenido del mismo, se encuentra estrictamente prohibido, y esta amparado por la ley. -------------- This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intented for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intented recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited.

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Xymon version 4.3.4 available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Hi, I have just uploaded version 4.3.4 of Xymon to Sourceforge, and it should be available from all of the mirror-sites shortly. This version fixes some rather nasty bugs, which could lead to data corruption of client messages (typically this would trigger wrong data for various statuses and spurious creation of disk RRD files) - I would like to thank Greg Shea for working with me to diagnose and fix this problem. Another important bugfix resolves the issue of acknowledgment cookies not being recognised after a while. Several other bugs that could cause various crashes, lockup and other nastiness were also fixed - see the full list below - so I strongly recommend that you upgrade to this version. Regards, Henrik Changes from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4: * Fix crashes and data corruption in Xymon worker modules (xymond_client, xymond_rrd etc) after handling large messages. * Fix xymond lock-up when renaming/deleting hosts * Fix xymond cookie lookup mechanism * Webpages: Add new HOSTPOPUP setting to control what values from hosts.cfg are displayed as a "comment" to the hostname (either in pop-up's or next to the hostname). * Fix xymond_client crash if analysis.cfg contains invalid configuration entries, e.g. expressions that do not compile. * Fix showgraph CGI crash when legends contain colon. * xymonnet: Include hostname when reporting erroneous test-spec * CGI utils: Multiple potential security fixes involving buffer- overruns when generating responses. * CGI utils: Fix crash when invoked with HTTP "HEAD" * CGI utils: Fix crashes on 64-bit platforms due to missing prototype of "basename()" function. * svcstatus CGI: Dont crash if history log is not a file. * Critical systems view CGI: Cross-site scripting fix * Fix recovery-messages for alerts sent to a GROUP * RRD "memory" status handler now recognizes the output from the bb-xsnmp.pl module (for Cisco routers). * Web templates modified so the menu CSS can override the default body CSS. * Acknowledge web page now allows selecting minutes/hours/days * Enable/Disable webpage enhanced, so when selecting multiple hosts the "Tests" column only lists the tests those hosts have.

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Apache tag not working, not playing nice with http tag.
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I've been trying to get apache results and am getting nothing, no results, no errors, as if it the tag wasn't there. UNLESS, and this is the weird part - *IF* I disable http for a given server I get *stats* under apache on the trends page, but still no apache column on the server page. Disabling http is not an option, as we've got nonstandard ports getting tested. With any http test enabled, just get blank "nan" values for apache. And no matter what, we don't get an apache column. Xymon server is xymon 4.3.2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux; most of the clients are running the latest apache and Solaris 10 u9. servers have ExtendedStatus On curl on the xymon server returns the expected stats with "curl http://myserver.example.com/server-status?auto" have tested using just a plain "apache" tag in hosts.cfg and apache=http://myserver.example.com/server-status?auto

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Specifying port for BBDISP
by olivier＠audry.fr 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

hello how can I specify a different port for BBDISP in hobbitserver.cfg ? thx for your help oau

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xymon 4.3.4 trends column location
by icepickjazz＠gmail.com 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

I been testing xymond 4.3.4. The location of the trends column move from far left (first column) to the far right last column on the display pages. Is there a way to move it back to the old location? thanks

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timediff
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Cami > Sent: 08/02/11 02:57 PM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: Re: [Xymon] timediff > > BBWin builds the data file as it performs the tests, so it will always depend on how long it takes to do all of the tests. I'll raise a bug report to put the [clock] section at the end of the file. > > Much appreciated, this would save me (and i'm sure a lot others) a world > of headaches. Fixed for the next release. Malcolm

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two tests showing purple and clear
by Paul.A.Gallegos＠wellsfargo.com 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Ok, I'm stumped. I'm running Xymon 4.3.2 on a group of 10 RedHat 5.4 x64 servers, 4 of which are DB servers. 3 out of the four DB servers are showing green, the fourth shows clear for msgs (it says "no data reported") and purple for processes (over 20 days since something was reported). However, a ps command shows that the processes it should be checking for exist, and I can tail the log to see things scrolling through. I reinstalled the client on that server and it still won't go green. The configuration for all four DB servers is the same, outside of one script in ext/ directory. What could possibly be the problem?

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AIX memory checks
by mailinglist0＠skurfer.com 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Henrik Størner wrote: > What does the "[realmem]" section look like ? This is what it currently looks like (still red and reporting invalid numbers). The client is version 4.3.3, by the way. Server is 4.2.2-RC1 if it matters. [realmem] realmem 16777216 Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes False [freemem] 0 0 1051672 5471551 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 577 525 1 3 96 0 0.03 6.7 [swap] Total Paging Space Percent Used 4096MB 1% > All of this is in the "client data" linked to from the detailed status page. It would be nice to have an example both when it is green and when it is red. It’s generally red, but here’s the same data from a nearly identical system that’s green. This one has more memory, but the configuration should be the same. [realmem] realmem 33554432 Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes False [freemem] 9 3 9838132 4694881 0 0 0 909 947 0 2836 50135 29272 50 11 38 1 2.90 96.7 [swap] Total Paging Space Percent Used 4096MB 3% Thanks. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>

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