January 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Poll/Test time
by kconnell＠ryerson.ca 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Was wondering....any one using a smaller time to poll (do tests) than the default 5min ? I have my new Xymon server currently @ 3min....sometimes 5 min just seems to long when your waiting for the next poll and hoping a yellow or red event is going to clear... Other than a little more traffic and devices using a little more cpu cycles I don't see a draw back.... Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709

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BUG: History button on "trends" page if column name changed
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hi all, I have found a real bug. If you set the xymonserver.cfg variable to change the name of the column for the "trends" column, the web page generation process adds a "HISTORY" button at the top of the new "trends" page under the new name. This bug exists since at least 4.3.0-0_beta2 and is still present in 4.3.7. If clicked, the button leads to nothing. .......Bruce Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc.

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Multiplicated Background-gif after update to 4.3.5
by hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

After upgrading from 4.3.0b2 to 4.3.5 the background-gif on the service pages gets multiplicated across the page (see attached screenshot). The overview pages are ok. Any hints?

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xymond_distribute - distribute acknowledgements too?
by keenha＠googlemail.com 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hi, I'm loving the new xymond_distribute module, it saves us loads of faffing about :) But would it be beneficial (or possible) for the xymond_distribute process to distribute acknowledgements to slave servers as well as enable/disable/drop/rename? Cheers, Heather

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export usage reports for management
by sholmes42＠mac.com 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

I know this isn't really what Xymon is designed to do, but I've been asked to produce data for a text based report of usage (cpu, memory, and disk weekly averages (which I've yet to convince them might not make sense)) from Xymon history or rrd data for management. The requester will put the data I provide into a spreadsheet. Before I go re-inventing the wheel I'm wondering if anyone has done something like this already. I was unable to find anything on the list archive and the only thing I found on xymonton.org was a pdf report generator which from the description doesn't look like it will work for what I want. I've tested some rrdtool queries (fetch, xport, etc.), but I'm having some difficulty seeing how the data I get corresponds to what I'm seeing on the Xymon page. Any pointers welcome. Thanks, Steve Holmes Purdue University -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. -Juan Ramon Jimenez, poet, Nobel Prize in literature (1881-1958) Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

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Make problem 4.3.7
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hi all, Not sure what I did the first run through, I might have been at the wrong directory or it could be the locator.o fix, but after running a make clean, removing the highest level Makefile, leaving the locator.o reference in place and starting over, it now builds. Sorry for the spam, Bruce Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of White, Bruce Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:54 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Make problem 4.3.7 Hello all, I'm having an issue with doing the initial make using the 4.3.7 distribution bon a RedHat 5.2 AS server. I get the following error messages: cc -o setup-newfiles setup-newfiles.c ../lib/xymonclient.a cc: ../lib/xymonclient.a: No such file or directory setup-newfiles.c:11:22: error: libxymon.h: No such file or directory setup-newfiles.c: In function â€˜mainâ€™: setup-newfiles.c:48: error: â€˜digestctx_tâ€™ undeclared (first use in this function) setup-newfiles.c:48: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once setup-newfiles.c:48: error: for each function it appears in.) setup-newfiles.c:48: error: â€˜ctxâ€™ undeclared (first use in this function) setup-newfiles.c:63: warning: passing argument 2 of â€˜strcpyâ€™ makes pointer from integer without a cast setup-newfiles.c:76: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make: *** [setup-newfiles] Error 1 I am much more of a sys admin than a C developer, so I really nee some help. I searched the archive and see a couple of references to similar issues, but none seem to match mine. In particular I found an email about compile errors with 4.3.3 dated 7/26/2011 (or 26/7/2011 for those from Europe) which said: Add “locator.o” to CLIENTLIBOBJS in lib/Makefile, And even after applying that fix, it still failed. ......Bruce Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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US Weather/Disaster alert data ?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Has anyone here ever hooked xymon into any sort of public alert system , such as EMWIN? Are there internet-accessible feeds of this data? Been searching around for a while, I keep finding commercial services. thanks Betsy (thinking of all the things that could trigger alerts at our company, this is one of the few that isn't in xymon)

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Make problem 4.3.7
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hello all, I'm having an issue with doing the initial make using the 4.3.7 distribution bon a RedHat 5.2 AS server. I get the following error messages: cc -o setup-newfiles setup-newfiles.c ../lib/xymonclient.a cc: ../lib/xymonclient.a: No such file or directory setup-newfiles.c:11:22: error: libxymon.h: No such file or directory setup-newfiles.c: In function â€˜mainâ€™: setup-newfiles.c:48: error: â€˜digestctx_tâ€™ undeclared (first use in this function) setup-newfiles.c:48: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once setup-newfiles.c:48: error: for each function it appears in.) setup-newfiles.c:48: error: â€˜ctxâ€™ undeclared (first use in this function) setup-newfiles.c:63: warning: passing argument 2 of â€˜strcpyâ€™ makes pointer from integer without a cast setup-newfiles.c:76: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make: *** [setup-newfiles] Error 1 I am much more of a sys admin than a C developer, so I really nee some help. I searched the archive and see a couple of references to similar issues, but none seem to match mine. In particular I found an email about compile errors with 4.3.3 dated 7/26/2011 (or 26/7/2011 for those from Europe) which said: Add “locator.o” to CLIENTLIBOBJS in lib/Makefile, And even after applying that fix, it still failed. ......Bruce Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc.

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File Monitoring
by jamison＠newasterisk.com 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Ah, thanks so much for the clarification. Jamison Maxwell ________________________________ From: Larry Barber [lebarber at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:34 PM To: Jamison Maxwell Subject: Re: [Xymon] File Monitoring No, you can have a per-machine specification in addition to the platform specification: The file is divided into sections, delimited by "[name]" lines. A section name can be either an operating system identifier - linux, solaris, hp-ux, aix, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, darwin - or a hostname. When deciding which section to send to a client, Xymon will first look for a section named after the hostname of the client; if such a section does not exist, it will look for a section named by the operating system of the client. So you can configure special configurations for individual hosts, and have a default configuration for all other hosts of a certain type. Thanks, Larry Barber On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jamison Maxwell <jamison at newasterisk.com<mailto:jamison at newasterisk.com>> wrote: Oops, mis-typed, and if I only wanted it for one host? Or is the only option to have all machines of that platform send that data despite it only existing on one system? I was under the impression that both types of specification, hosts and platforms were available in client-local.cfg. Jamison Maxwell p. 770 605 6653<tel:770%20605%206653> jamison at newasterisk.com<mailto:jamison at newasterisk.com> ________________________________ From: Root, Paul [Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:08 PM To: Jamison Maxwell; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: RE: [Xymon] File Monitoring Well it should be client-local.cfg not client.local.cfg. and it isn’t a per machine definition, it’s a platform definition. You’d want something like: [linux] File:/mnt/fs/test Paul Root - Engineer III Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Jamison Maxwell Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:31 PM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] File Monitoring I am trying to monitor a file, this file is located at /mnt/fs/test, however, when I configure it in client-local.cfg and analysis.cfg I still get the "No Files Checked" message with a clear status. Is there something I'm missing here? analysis.cfg: HOST=hostname.domain.com<http://hostname.domain.com> FILE /mnt/fs/test SIZE>1 COLOR=red client.local.cfg: HOST=hostname.domain.com<http://hostname.domain.com> file:/mnt/fs/test I have other entries, such as LOG configured under this host, and they work fine, but just this file test. Any help is appreciated, Jamison Maxwell ________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com<mailto:Xymon at xymon.com> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Delayed FILE NOEXIST Status Change?
by james.lose＠twcable.com 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

I want to generate an alarm when an error file is detected, but only if the file is detected for two or more consecutive polling cycles. My current configuration for monitoring and analyzing the results are as follows: client-local.cfg ------------------ file:/tmp/error analysis.cfg ------------- FILE /tmp/error NOEXIST This configuration generates an alarm (e.g. changes the file test status to red) as soon as the error file is detected. Can the FILE NOEXIST rule be modified to include an MTIME>600 check to insure that the status change does not occur for short-lived problems? Thanks, Bob ________________________________ This E-mail and any of its attachments may contain Time Warner Cable proprietary information, which is privileged, confidential, or subject to copyright belonging to Time Warner Cable. This E-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this E-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this E-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this E-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copy of this E-mail and any printout.

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