September 2011 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Process monitoring on Xymon 4.3.4
by paul.jacobs2＠produban.co.uk 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

Hi, I am setting up Xymon to monitor process running on a host but when I modify the analysis.cfg file its taking ages to change colour on the main page? PROC "conf/log4j/log4j_AggregationCommonIn.xml" 6 6 So we I can change this from 6 to 7 it should go RED but its taking ages. How do I increase the monitoring period as I need to know quicker when processes have failed? I did the change well over 5 minutes ago and my page is still green. Any help greatly appreciated Paul Emails aren't always secure, and they may be intercepted or changed after they've been sent. Produban doesn't accept liability if this happens. If you think someone may have interfered with this email, please get in touch with the sender another way. This message and any documents attached to it do not create or change any contract unless otherwise specifically stated. Any views or opinions contained in this message are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Produban, unless otherwise specifically stated and the sender is authorised to do so. Produban doesn't accept responsibility for damage caused by any viruses contained in this email or its attachments. Emails may be monitored. If you've received this email by mistake, please let the sender know at once that it's gone to the wrong person and then destroy it without copying, using, or telling anyone about its contents. Produban Servicios Informaticos Generales, S.L. (UK Branch). Registered office: Shenley Wood House, Chalkdell Drive, Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes MK5 6LA. Branch registration number BR 008486. Ref:[PDB#014]

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Solved - Cannot load file configuration
by jewel.brueggeman-makda＠washburn.edu 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

It's working now. I restarted the xymon.sh service. Not sure what happened. When I click to view a report on my xymon installation I get "Cannot load host configuration". I am not sure what I messed up. I can see the main page just fine it's just when I click on a smiley face. In my apache logs I see 'Could not connect to Xymon deamon at 127.0.0.1:1984 (Connection refused); 'xymonboard fields=hostname,testname,disabletime,dismsg' All I did was reboot the server. --

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Cannot load file configuration
by jewel.brueggeman-makda＠washburn.edu 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

When I click to view a report on my xymon installation I get "Cannot load host configuration". I am not sure what I messed up. I can see the main page just fine it's just when I click on a smiley face. In my apache logs I see 'Could not connect to Xymon deamon at 127.0.0.1:1984 (Connection refused); 'xymonboard fields=hostname,testname,disabletime,dismsg' All I did was reboot the server. --

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Xymon 4.3.5 released
by henrik＠hswn.dk 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi, I have uploaded Xymon 4.3.5 to Sourceforge a few minutes ago, and it will start mirroring out soon. Source-file is available, and Debian packages for amd64 and i386 architectures. New stuff in this release: * the new "delayred"/ "delayyellow" options in hosts.cfg which will replease the "badTEST" settings that only worked for network tests; * the enhancements to the Critical Systems view so you can also see the eventlog for the hosts Performance-wise this release changes a couple of CGI-scripts so they don't have to load the entire hosts.cfg file, which can be quite heavy if you have a large hosts.cfg which may even be split out over lots of included files. And there are some nasty bugs squashed that could trigger crashes in both xymond and some of the webpage tools. The changes in this release: * Fix crash in CGI generating the "info" status column. * Fix broken handling of IGNORE for log-file analysis. * Fix broken clean-up of obsolete cookies (no user impact). * Devmon RRD handler: Fix missing initialisation, which might cause crashes of the RRD handler. * Fix crashes in xymond caused by faulty new library for storing cookies and host-information. * Fix memory corruption/crash in xymond caused by logging of multi-source statuses. * New "delayred" and "delayyellow" definitions for a host can be used to delay change to a yellow/red status for any status column (replaces the network-specific "badFOO" definitions). * analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg: New DISPLAYGROUP setting to select hosts by the group/group-only/group-except text. * New HOSTDOCURL setting in xymonserver.cfg. Replaces the xymongen "--docurl" and "--doccgi" options, and is used by all tools. * xymond_history option to control location of PID file. * Critical Systems view: Optionally show eventlog for the hosts present on the CS view. * Critical Systems view: Multiple --config options can now be used, to display critical systems from multiple configurations on one page. * Detailed status display: Speedup by no longer having to load the hosts.cfg file. * xymongen and xymonnet: Optionally load the hosts.cfg from xymond instead of having to read the file. The bug relating to DNS tests not timing out - see this thread: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2011-August/032306.html - has not been fixed in this release. I need to do some more digging into why the C-ARES library doesn't timeout the way it should, and what can be done to work around / fix it. Regards, Henrik

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no-alerts.pl & kerberos
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi ! Could somebody give me an hint, how i can use this script in my enviroment (kerberos authentification at my xymon-server) ? If i execute the script as usual or as cron-job, i've got no information of course :-( Thanks & Cheers Martin

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deadcat gone ?
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 09 Sep '11

09 Sep '11

Hi ! Did somebody know when and why www.deadcat.net is gone :-( cheers, Martin

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SNMP Polling Support
by rrdansmith＠gmail.com 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Is SNMP polling really supported/available in xymon? I recompiled 4.3.4 this morning and successfully created the xymon-snmpcollect binary, but I couldn't find any information in the docs or archives on how to use it. Does anyone have any pointers? I currently use devmon for all of my SNMP polling, but I was interested in seeing what was built into xymon. -dan

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Not able to add any hosts to xymon
by jewel.brueggeman-makda＠washburn.edu 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

I finally got the web interface working on my server. Now I am trying to install BBWin on a Windows server and see it appear on my server. I did do a test and it can communicate with my hobbit server. I am adding the IP and hostname to my hosts.cfg file on the server, restarting the xymon.sh service and apache2 service and none of the changes I make to the hosts.cfg is appearing. I do have information in two locations when I was struggling to install it under two different users. Since I am not sure which location to change I did edit both. /home/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg /home/xymonuser/server/etc/hosts.cfg --

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deadcat gone ?
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: martin.flemming at desy.de > Sent: 09/08/11 10:32 AM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] deadcat gone ? > > Hi ! > > Did somebody know when and why www.deadcat.net is gone :-( Looks like they've replaced it with a forum. The files still appear to be there. Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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bb-omsa-raid.sh and omsa 6.5
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hi ! Got anybody a working bb-omsa-raid.sh-version for omsa-6.5 ? thanks & cheers Martin

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