October 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

MAGMA XYMon Web GUI Admin Now Available!
by sanderson＠CORNETSER.com 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

Henrik and Fellow Xymoners, Just for you I have pushed off any real work for today just to get you all a first release of MAGMA the XYMon Web GUI Admin. MAGMA is an add-on web GUI for managing Host, Groups and Alarms on a XYmon 4.3 or newer system. You can find MAGMA at http://www.squidworks.net/magma/ There you will find the description, screen shots and features of MAGMA along with the link to download the source package. It requires MySQL and PHP5 and is very simple to install. All supporting information is included in the tarball. How does it work? --------------------------- It stores all alarm and host/group configs in the SQL database and rewrites the Host.cfg, Analysis.cfg and Alarms.cfg files causing the XYmon system to update its tests and pages based on the changes in these files. It will overwrite the files each time a host is added or edited making the process of updating automatic. To get the full benefit of MAGMA you should place all hosts in "central" mode, although this is not required, without it your management is somewhat restrictive (external test management only). In Central mode you get full management features for all tests. If you have any questions or need some help just send me a email @ sanderson @ squidworks.net Cubert 8-) Aka Shannon Anderson

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Xymon and Oracle ASM?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

Anyone got any good scripts for xymon and Oracle ASM?

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logstash output for xymon
by indymichaelb＠gmail.com 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Would love to see this added as an output to logstash On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Wilfrid Beauchaine <wbeauchaine at katei.net>wrote: > Hello > > i use http://www.logstash.net and xymon so i adapted the logstash output > zabbix for xymon: > > http://pastebin.com/UQBJF7m7 > > Actually i have not contacted logstash team to add this output. > So if you want use this you need to copy this code to > logstash/outputs/xymon.rb. > Execute jar -uf logstash-1.1.0.1-monolithic.jar logstash/outputs/xymon.rb > to add this on jar file > > i have only test this on linux > > if you have any question please contact me by email > > Regards, > Wilfrid > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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local mode client
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

One of my co-workers has installed xymon 4.3.7, and wants to use local mode for configuration. The display server is not receiving anything from his machine if things run normally, but when run by hand, xymon can send data from his server (Solaris) to the display server. I enabled xymond_client --debug in xymonclient.sh: if test "$LOCALMODE" = "yes"; then echo "@@" >> $MSGTMPFILE $XYMONHOME/bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=$XYMONHOME/etc/localclient .cfg <$MSGTMPFILE And now I'm getting this: + ../bin/xymond_client --debug --local --config=../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 1, startpos 0, fillpos 0, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=528383 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Got 161874 bytes 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 ../bin/xymond_client: Got message 1 @client#1|0|127.0.0.1|neptune.lib.iastate.edu|sunos 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Opening file ../etc/localclient.cfg 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Compiling regex ^/zones.*/ 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Client report from host neptune.lib.iastate.edu 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 neptune.lib.iastate.edu: Duplicate client message at time 0, seq 1, lastseq 0 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 Want msg 2, startpos 161874, fillpos 161874, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=366509 11655 2012-02-14 16:20:29 get_xymond_message: Returning NULL due to EOF + rm -f ../tmp/msg.neptune.lib.iastate.edu.txt I'm not sure where to go from here. Does local mode still work for most people? -Tracy

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The Big Brother / Xymon summit
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Sep '14

25 Sep '14

Hi, Sean McGuire - the inventor of Big Brother - and myself managed to get together at "Sparkys Roadside Barbecue" in Miami last month. We had a very nice evening discussing Big Brother, Xymon, the foibles of our various corporate overlords, and generally covering a wide range of topics. In other words, I had a great evening - and I think Sean did too. Thanks to the Xymon users who donated "beer money" for the event, although Sean insisted to save those for another occasion. So if you've ever wondered what Sean or myself really look like, here's a couple of photos. It's Sean in the "barbecue-colored" shirt (his words, not mine). Regards, Henrik

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canceling acknowledgements
by lebarber＠gmail.com 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Is there some way to cancel an 'ack' after it has been issued? Thanks, Larry Barber

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how integrate xymonpdf into new xymon-menue
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Hi ! I need an hint how to integrate the xymonpdf http://www.trantor.org/xymonton/doku.php/reports:xymonpdf or other entries into the new xymon-menue .. ... > * Edit '$BBHOME/server/www/menu/menu_items.js' and add two lines in > 'Reports' section like those ones (I put my scripts into $BBHOME/server/www/pdf) : > > ['Analysis PDF', '/xymon/pdf/analysis.php'], > ['Reports PDF', '/xymon/pdf/pdf.php'] didn't work ... because the menue_items.js is missing :-) i've added an entry in xymonmenu.cfg <a class="inner" href="$BBSERVERWWWURL/pdf/pdf.php">PDF Report</a> but without success :-( thanks & cheers Martin

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Problem with NOTICE rule in alerts.cfg
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 24 May '13

24 May '13

I noticed that the xymon_alerts docs show there is a NOTICE keyword which is described as: NOTICE Rule matches if the message is a "notify" message. This type of message is sent when a host or test is disabled or enabled. I wanted to be alerted via a custom SMS script of any test as soon as it is enabled or disabled. So in the alerts.cfg file I had initially set up a line that I thought would trigger whenever a test was enabled or disabled like so: HOST=* SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS NOTICE As I was testing enabling and disabling, it appeared that I had gotten the syntax correct and I was off to the next thing. However, when a normal test went yellow, I received two SMS alerts for it. My logs shows that the CFID environment variable was showing that my new alert listed above was triggering the SMS as well as the PAGE=%firewalls/* alert that was supposed to trigger it. I then tried NOTICE SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS as well as NOTICE=* SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS and finally HOST=* NOTICE SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS But it seems that ANY status change including normal green, yellow, red, purple triggers this alert as well as any other correctly matching alert. I did some additional testing with all three above configurations using: xymond_alert --test fw.example.com testname And each of them showed (in order): *** Match with 'HOST=*' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS NOTICE' *** *** Match with 'NOTICE' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS' *** *** Match with 'NOTICE=*' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS' *** *** Match with 'HOST=* NOTICE' *** *** Match with 'SCRIPT $xymon-sms-alert $waaphone TIME=$smsalerthours FORMAT=SMS' *** Would love to get this working correctly and appreciate any help! -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/

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Duplicate email Recipients in Info page
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 10 May '13

10 May '13

Does that mean it will stay green for a half hour before going red if the service has stopped ? Thanks! On 6/6/12 12:35 PM, "Betsy Schwartz" <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Don Kuhlman <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com> >wrote: > >> I've been working on the email issue and now seem to have another >>issue. I >> shut down the bbwin service on two windows computers that xymon was >> monitoring and it's not alerting that the service and/or process has >> stopped. > >Default purple interval , aka "status lifetime" is half an hour... I >think it's hardcoded on the server side. > >Individual alerts can also set their lifetimes. We do that with some >of our custom tests, run them every half hour with a lifetime of a >couple of hours. >

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xymon e-mail alerts show up as attachments instead of e-mail
by icepickjazz＠gmail.com 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Not a wild thought. Yes you are correct. I was getting ready to post my findings. We recently moved our xymon server from fedora core 3 to SLES 11. Fedora used mail and SLES 11 mail is linked to mailx. The windows clients are sending carriage returns in the status ^M (carriage return). The problem occured on SuSe server but not on redhat server, because mailx expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines separated by *newline*(^J, \n) characters only. Non-Unix text files that use *carriage return* (^M, \r) characters in addition will be treated as binary data. Hence the reason we get notifications that show up as attachments. Also explains why AIX servers don't have the problem and the windows servers do. Thanks On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Scott Pfister <icepickjazz at gmail.com>wrote: > Not a wild thought. Yes you are correct. I was getting ready to post my > findings. We recently moved our xymon server from fedora core 3 to SLES > 11. Fedora used mail and SLES 11 mail is linked to mailx. The windows > clients are sending carriage returns in the status ^M (carriage return). > The problem occured on SuSe server but not on redhat server, because mailx > expects input text to be in Unix format, with lines separated by *newline*(^J, \n) characters only. Non-Unix text files that use > *carriage return* (^M, \r) characters in addition will be treated as > binary data. Hence the reason we get notifications that show up as > attachments. Also explains why AIX servers don't have the problem and the > windows servers do. > > Thanks > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Wild thought - could the Windows reports be turned into attachments in >> your email server and/or client because the line-ends are <cr><lf> instead >> of just <lf> ?? >> >> Ralph Mitchell >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Scott Pfister <icepickjazz at gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Good day, >>> >>> We are running xymon 4.2.3 and are experiencing some particularities with >>> e-mail alerts showing up as attachments like att00001.bin instead of the >>> normal message. The problem is sporadic. For example windows server throws >>> CPU alter. E-mail sent shows up as an attachment in the recipient e-mail. >>> AIX servers throw cpu alerts don't experience this problem. Client >>> shouldn't matter. Any tips for troubleshooting this issue? If we open the >>> attachment in the editor it shows what should be in the body of the email. >>> Hobbit server is running postfix. >>> >>> red Mon Sep 19 15:07:50 EDT 2011 [indyctx8.companyname.com] up: 10:12, 1 >>> users, 224 procs, load=100%, PhysicalMem: 3072MB(74%) >>> >>> >>> >>> Memory Statistics >>> Total Physical memory: 3220598784 bytes (3.00GB) >>> Available Physical memory: 850558976 bytes (812.00MB) >>> Total PageFile size: 4294967295 bytes (4.00GB) >>> Available PageFile size: 4294967295 bytes (4.00GB) >>> Total Virtual memory size: 2147352576 bytes (2.00GB) >>> Available Virtual memory size: 2106589184 bytes (1.96GB) >>> >>> Most active processes >>> 96.23% oexplore (0x26a4 [9892]) >>> 00.60% svchost (0xbf0 [3056]) >>> 00.32% lsass (0x23c [572]) >>> 00.26% oexplore (0x29c8 [10696]) >>> 00.25% oexplore (0x255c [9564]) >>> 00.21% Smc (0x3c4 [964]) >>> 00.20% SmcGui (0x3230 [12848]) >>> 00.19% oexplore (0x20dc [8412]) >>> 00.16% oexplore (0x14d0 [5328]) >>> 00.13% XTE (0xfc4 [4036]) >>> >>> See >>> http://hobbit.companyname.docm/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=indyctx8&SERVI… >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xymon mailing list >>> Xymon at xymon.com >>> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >>> >>> >> >

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