October 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Uptime in Central Mode
by sanderson＠CORNETSER.com 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hey fellow Xymoners, I am switching over all servers from local to central mode and somewhere I must have miss read how to test for uptime. The page looks like ::: Wed Oct 24 17:03:48 2012 NOT ok [yellow] Machine has been up more than 0 days 17 days 16 hours 28 minutes 33 seconds In analysis.cfg I have the monitor set to "UP 15m 365d yellow" Which in my understanding should denote that alarm yellow if system is less than 15 minutes after a reboot and alarm again if uptime is over 365 days. Is this not correct? Shannon Anderson, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE Support Centre Systems Engineer Corporate Network Services "Count on Us" 20010 Fisher Ave, Suite E Poolesville, MD 20837 direct: 240-425-4904 | main: 301.948.8077 | fax: 301.349.2518 http://www.cornetser.com<http://www.cornetser.com/> [Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Facebook]Join CNS on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/#!/CorporateNetworkServices?ref=ts> AWE Best Place to Work 2006-2012; Eco-Leader 2009-2012; Health and Wellness Trailblazer 2010-2012 ...ask me how you can feel happier about IT support with [Description: Description: Description: Description: untitled] P Please consider the environment before printing this email

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Flat cpu graph for hostgraphs.sh
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

All - Hi! Have a situation where several of my hosts are graphing "CPU utilization (multi)" under the "Metrics" report - running hostgraphs.sh with the "testname=la1" parameter - at 100%, constantly. Other CPU graph reports ("cpu", "sar") for the same hosts show a normal, reality-based CPU usage pattern. If I've understood correctly, the data for this graph is located under $XYMONRRDS/<hostname>. When I list out files in that directory, I don't see a file containing the name "la1". Is this the problem, or ... ? ls $XYMONRRDS/cwg605 total 2930 drwxr-xr-x 2 hobbit monitor 23 Oct 24 00:31 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1787 hobbit monitor 1.7K Oct 24 09:53 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:23 clock.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:23 disk,etc,svc,volatile.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:22 disk,export2.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:23 disk,root.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:27 disk,tmp.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:32 ifstat.aggr1.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:23 ifstat.aggr2.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:23 ifstat.igb0.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 38K Oct 24 13:23 ifstat.nxge3.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:23 la.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 75K Oct 24 13:23 mem2.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:23 memory.real.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:32 memory.swap.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 297K Oct 24 13:23 netstat.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:23 procs.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 75K Oct 24 13:23 sar.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:26 tcp.conn.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:23 tcp.ssh.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:32 tm.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 19K Oct 24 13:23 users.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 297K Oct 24 13:23 vmstat.rrd Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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Devmon
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

I use 0.3.1-beta1 with Xymon 4.3.7. I don't think there have been updates. Maybe Buchan will respond? ....Bruce From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Root, Paul Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:39 PM To: 'Galen Johnson'; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Devmon I'm using it with 4.3.9. Haven't seen it change in a long time. Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Galen Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:22 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Devmon Does anyone happen to know if Devmon is still active (current version is 0.3.1 beta 1 at SF)? If so, does it still work with 4.3? If not, did Henrik ever get around to adding the SNMP pieces to Xymon directly? thanks =G= 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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Devmon
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Does anyone happen to know if Devmon is still active (current version is 0.3.1 beta 1 at SF)? If so, does it still work with 4.3? If not, did Henrik ever get around to adding the SNMP pieces to Xymon directly? thanks =G=

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RRD - Aberrant Behavior Detection with Holt-Winters Forecasting
by nicolas＠lienard.name 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hello When devices are too overloaded; we got lot of gap in the graph and it is not very nice. To avoid that, i would like to implement the abberrant behavior detection provided by RRDTOOL. Following http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcreate.en.html, i defined a new RRA in ~xymon/server/etc/rrddefinitions.cfg [test_rrd] RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:576 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:576 # RRA:HWPREDICT:<array length>:<alpha>:<beta>:<period> # enable RRAs for aberrant detection, 1 day seasonal store for 5 day RRA:HWPREDICT:1440:0.1:0.0035:288 <------ new entry i got a simple test script running every 5 mn: sh-3.00$ cat test_rrd.sh #!/bin/sh HOSTNAME="test_device" value=42 $BB $BBDISP "status+200d $HOSTNAME.test_rrd green `date` test: $value" i got ncv conf in xymonserver.cfg, the graph is working fine with this basic definition: [test_rrd] TITLE test RRD YAXIS value DEF:a=test_rrd.rrd:test:AVERAGE LINE2:a#00CC00:test value GPRINT:a:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:a:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:a:MIN: \: %3.1lf (min) GPRINT:a:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n now, if i add the def: DEF:b=test_rrd.rrd:test:HWPREDICT the graph is not showing anymore [even if i didn t use the new DEF on a LINE] :( if i dump the rrd i can see the RRA : sh-3.00$ rrdtool dump /opt/xymon/data/rrd/test_device/test_rrd.rrd |grep HW <cf> HWPREDICT </cf> any idea is welcome. Thanks. regards Nico

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HTTP tests
by colin.coe＠gmail.com 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Hi all I've added http tests to three hosts. Two of the hosts now have an icon against the http test. The third host still just has a hyphen ('-'). I don't see anything being logged on the webserver nor do I see anything unusual on the Xymon host. Could I get some pointers on debugging this? Thanks CC -- RHCE#805007969328369

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4.3.10 fping4 and fping6 errors
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

building 4.3.10 on RHEL6 I've got fping in /usr/local/sbin/fping, and the configure.server script found it, so I assume these errors are spurious? chown root /home/xymon/server/bin/fping4 /home/xymon/server/bin/fping6 || echo "Could not make fping4/fping6 owned by root, continuing" chown: cannot access `/home/xymon/server/bin/fping4': No such file or directory chown: cannot access `/home/xymon/server/bin/fping6': No such file or directory Could not make fping4/fping6 owned by root, continuing chmod 4755 /home/xymon/server/bin/fping4 /home/xymon/server/bin/fping6 || echo "Could not make fping4/fping6 suid-root, continuing" chmod: cannot access `/home/xymon/server/bin/fping4': No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/home/xymon/server/bin/fping6': No such file or directory Could not make fping4/fping6 suid-root, continuing then xymonnet failed with Error output: Could not run the command '/usr/local/bin/fping -Ae' (exec failed) Command '/usr/local/bin/fping' failed: No such file or directory a link fixed that, but I would have expected it to be looking in the correct place

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tar.gz
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

Dear all, anyone here that have a tarball of hobbit 4.2 ? -- Med vänliga hälsningar/Regards Lars Ebeling Rentier http://leopg9.no-ip.org "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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Proving that tasks.d/ directory is working
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi all, I have a few tasks that I have designed to run on the Xymon server. I have created files in the tasks.d/ subdirectory based on the configs in the tasks.cfg file but they don't seem to be running. One example entry from a file in tasks.d is: # "replicate_ldap" runs the in-house LDAP replication checks. [ldap_replication] ENVFILE /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg CMD /opt/xymon/server/ext/ldap_check_replication LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/ldap_replication.log INTERVAL 5m It's a simple configuration and the files exist but the log file has not been updated in weeks. I cannot find any log information about the tasks.cfg file or its inclusions, it doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the Xymon log files, can someone give me a clue as to how I can debug this? |\/| [Description: Colt @ 20 email sig]<http://youtu.be/jmmcILTf88I> Martin Ward Manager, Technical Services Service Operations DDI:+44 (0) 20 7863 5218 / Fax: +44 (0)20 7863 9999 / www.colt.net<http://www.colt.net/> Colt Technology Services, Unit 12, Powergate Business Park, Volt Avenue, Park Royal, London, NW10 6PW, UK. Help reduce your carbon footprint | Think before you print. Registered in England and Wales, registered number 02452736, VAT number GB 645 4205 50 [Colt Disclaimer] This email is from an entity of the Colt group of companies. Colt Group S.A., K2 Building, Forte 1, 2a rue Albert Borschette, L-1246 Luxembourg, R.C.S. B115679. Corporate and contact information for our entities can be found at http://colt.net/uk/en/Colt-Group-of-Companies/index.htm. Internet communications are not secure and Colt does not accept responsibility for the accurate transmission of this message. Content of this email or its attachments is not legally or contractually binding unless expressly previously agreed in writing by Colt

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Process report tweak? (a request from my boss's boss...)
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

The process report shows a list of monitored processes at the top, with the missing process having a yellow dot. Is it possible in another release to list the bad process FIRST and SEPARATELY from the others? In email it gets sort of buried when there's a long list of monitored processes: red Fri Oct 12 15:50:56 EDT 2012 - Processes NOT ok &green /usr/sbin/cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) &red httpd (found 0, req. 1 or more) &green nscd (found 1, req. 1 or more) &green java (found 1, req. 1 or more) &red coldfusion8 (found 0, req. 1 or more) &green cron (found 1, req. 1 or more).... If people think this is a good idea, that is thanks Betsy

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