October 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Plagued by purple
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

All - Am fairly new to Xymon and apologize if this is documented somewhere and I missed it. I have inherited a Xymon server (4.3.3 on Solaris 10) which shows itself as having about half its tests as "purple", the other half as green. As far as I can tell, everything's running just fine. It seems to be a simple data refresh problem of some sort, but haven't been able prove my hunch. The problem started after a reboot of the server. Everything came up OK, except for the following list of "missing" tests: Purple Tests: iostat iostat2 mem2 meta nfs prtdiag raid sar tm zones Green Tests: bbd conn cpu disk http info memory msgs ntp ports procs ssh trends I've restarted the server: ("$xymon_home/xymon.sh restart") and tried to find something in the logs, but am not making ground on this fast enough. Help? Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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Using the "link@" value in hosts.cfg
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi folks. I was studying the xymon.com pages and examples of the hosts.cfg settings. In the hosts.cfg file there, I saw this host line with a "link at 90.184.110.202" as below: page services Services group-compress <font size="+1">Network</font> 147.29.31.155 adsl.hswn.dk # NET:home noconn testip link at 90.184.110.202 It seems as though this creates another column for "link" in the xymon webpages. Does anyone know what or how the "link@" value works and how to configure, or where the doc is to explain it? Thanks, Don K

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Convert old hobbit to xymon
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Dear all, I used to run hobbit on a HP-Unix box. I think it was like 4.2 . In the beginning of 2009 I got ill stayed in hospital a couple of months. In the same time my HP-UX box crashed. Now I want to start again with Xymon on Ubuntu. I think I have all the old configfiles on a tarfile in Windows. But I think a lot has happened with the configfiles. I remember that the should be some script to conver old files. Could someone please help me with this. -- 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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Very long message despite FORMAT=SMS
by Johan.Sjoberg＠deltamanagement.se 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi. There seems to be some problem with the FORMAT=SMS parameter in alerts.cfg on 4.3.10. We are getting very long text messages, despite using FORMAT=SMS in the alerts config file. The alert was regarding the msgs test for one server, and the message was over 4000 characters. This is the line that generates the alert: PAGE=DM,Network COLOR=red SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsms.sh $DELTA_JOSJ DURATION>7 FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=15 Regards, Johan Sjöberg

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Time Correction
by ray.reuter＠gmail.com 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Just a quick question, if the time is off by a few minutes in our xymon server, will correcting the time have an adverse effect on the rrd graphs other than a missing time period?

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New xymon Feature
by jef.jagers＠thomsonreuters.com 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Hi, I have a request for a change for future xymon releases. First a little more info about our situation and the reason for the request. We currently still are using xymon version 4.2.3. This because we successfully made some adjustments to the source code of that version to allow two new columns to show for linux based servers (For windows machines this is already implemented). It concerns the Timediff and uptime columns, that we split from the cpu column. The reason we made these adjustments (uptime) is because our virtual machines boot really fast and the conn test often doesn't detect any downtime. We then can capture this with the uptime column. (if uptime < 30min => alert) The reason we wanted the timediff column separately is because some machines require correct times and seen that it is combined with the cpu column this could create confusion and doesn't provide an easy overview that we are used from xymon. (Each individual peace of info = separate column) We are eager to upgrade to the latest xymon release but are unable to make the same adjustments because some functions changed within the source code. (We did try though) We currently also don't have anybody employed who has the necessary indebt knowledge to make these kind of adjustments within the code. I can provide some more info on the changes that we performed on version 4.2.3 if required. Please let me know your thoughts. Regards, Jef Jagers

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monitoring /var/log/messages for new occurence of a string
by nskyrca＠syr.edu 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi, The answer to this is probably in the archives already, but I didn't find it. I'm running Xymon 4.2.3 server on RHEL, and running Big Brother on the clients. I setup the bb-msgstab file on a Linux client to alert for a specific string in /var/log/messages. What I'm seeing is that anytime /var/log/messages is updated, we get an alert for the string we are testing for, even if that string occurred hours ago. Is there a way to parse the file to only send an alert if it is a new occurrence of the string? We only rotate this file once a week, so we might get an alert on something that's a day old. Thanks! Nicole Beck

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strange problem with one client
by r.tagliaferri＠tosnet.it 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

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How to launch Xymon client on Ubuntu 12.04
by kamador＠shopzilla.com 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

The problem is in the dh_install calls in the rules. I was able to fix this by applying this patch: diff --unified xymon-4.3.10/debian/changelog xymon-4.3.10-sz/debian/changelog --- xymon-4.3.10/debian/changelog 2012-08-04 05:13:20.000000000 -0700 +++ xymon-4.3.10-sz/debian/changelog 2012-10-10 18:42:25.662517487 -0700 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +xymon (4.3.10-sz) unstable; urgency=low + + * Fixed Debian/Ubuntu build to put init and logrotate scripts in the right packages. + + -- Kraig Amador <kamador at shopzilla.com> Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:42:00 -0800 + xymon (4.3.10) unstable; urgency=low * rev 7164 diff --unified xymon-4.3.10/debian/rules xymon-4.3.10-sz/debian/rules --- xymon-4.3.10/debian/rules 2011-03-08 09:20:28.000000000 -0800 +++ xymon-4.3.10-sz/debian/rules 2012-10-10 18:50:14.663024230 -0700 @@ -137,9 +137,9 @@ rmdir $S/usr/share/man/man7 dh_installdebconf -a # use the old file names for now - dh_installlogrotate --name=xymon-client -a - dh_installinit --name=xymon -p'xymon' -- defaults 98 02 - dh_installinit --name=xymon-client -p'xymon-client' -- defaults 98 02 + dh_installdebconf -a + dh_installlogrotate -a + dh_installinit -a -- defaults 98 02 dh_installman -a dh_link -a dh_strip -a -- Kraig Amador

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web acks sometimes don't work
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

We have had intermittent issues with web acks working on version 4.3.7 also. I have not determined a pattern. .....Bruce From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Igor Berman Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:48 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] web acks sometimes don't work Hi, We are experiencing problems with ack-ing failures. Our devops acking problems and sometimes(without clear pattern) the ack isn't working and the alert mail is still sent(we are seeing V in web interface). Sometimes it do work. Xymon version is 4.3.7 Any ideas would be appreciated. Maybe this is a known problem? Thanks in advance, Igor 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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