November 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Measuring rndc stats
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Does anyone do this with Xymon? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

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Disk utilization/free warning
by Mike.Burger＠FreedomMortgage.com 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Ok, so I'm reading the man page for the analysis.cfg file, and in the disk section, it reads: If the utilization of "filesystem" is reported to exceed "warnlevel" or "paniclevel", the "disk" status will go yellow or red, respectively. "warnlevel" and "paniclevel" are either the percentage used, or the space available as reported by the local "df" command on the host. For the latter type of check, the "warnlevel" must be followed by the letter "U", e.g. "1024U". I'm fine with all of this except: What will the "U" number represent? Is it megabytes, gigabytes? I'm assuming megabytes, but would like to be sure. Thanks. -- Mike Burger AIX Administrator <http://freedomhome.fhmc.local/intranet/main.jsp> Phone (317) 537-3680, Fax (317) 537-4680, Cell (317) 797-2040 E-mail: Mike.Burger at FreedomMortgage.com <mailto:Anthony.House at freedommortgage.com> "Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time." --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including all attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, alteration or distribution is strictly prohibited and may violate state or federal law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail, delete this email and destroy all copies of the message.

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how to override default graph
by olivier＠audry.fr 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hello Thx for the tip but I will hack info the xymon code. I already add the disk cpu and memory for my vmware script i thé same way than ckeckbdd.pl. But my hack ils dirty and don't manage threshold for now. oau Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> a écrit : >On 16 November 2012 20:51, Olivier AUDRY <olivier at audry.fr> wrote: > >> hello >> >> I would like to show a different graph (in %) into the cpu probe for a >> kind of device (network windows and vmware). Is it possible ? If yes how ? >> > >You might be able to do something like this: > >1) Create a new cpu graph in graphs.cfg as required. The default is >"[la]", so you could start with that if you wanted to. Let's say you call >it "[la-new]" > >2) In the hosts.cfg file, where required, add something like: > > 10.1.2.3 name.of.host # ssh testip dns TRENDS:*,la:la-new > >I think this means that whenever a "la" graph is required on the trends >page, the "la-new" graph will be used. This probably won't replace the >graph on the "cpu" page but might be good enough for you. > >J

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how to override default graph
by olivier＠audry.fr 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

hello I would like to show a different graph (in %) into the cpu probe for a kind of device (network windows and vmware). Is it possible ? If yes how ? thx for helping oau

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How to view history of status changes from CLI
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Hello - Is there a way to generate the output from the "eventlog.sh" report from the CLI? I need to manipulate the data via scripts and would prefer not cutting / pasting... ? Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman

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Splitting up HTTP into separate individual tests - best practice?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

I have a high-visibility request to change all of our server http tests so that they appear as separate tests per URL, with the ability to alert separately, sign out separately, etc. As most of our web servers are application servers in one form or another, the various URL's test very different functionality. I can sort of do this with the "cont=" flag but that has two problems: -have to specify a return regexp for each tested URL instead of using the default -test STILL appears under the server's http check It's becoming a serious issue that we have http tests that show a mixture of red and green tests. And to make it worse, on some servers sometimes http just turns *yellow* when only one URL out of three or four is down, even though all four are critical.. What are other people doing? Am I missing an easier way to do this? thanks Betsy

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Splitting up HTTP into separate individual tests - best practice?
by tom＠it-eckert.de 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

(2nd try correcting from-address) Wouldn't using the 'httpstatus'-test solve the problem of separate status columns and alerting? P probably i didn't get the hardcase correctly but the following example gives 2 columns (h_app1 and 2) and allows separate alerting. In addition xymon " feeds" the data to the http- column - so all checks are aggregated there. hosts.cfg: 1.2.3.4 appsrv.example.com # httpstatus=h_app1;http://appsrv.example.com:80/;200;3..|4..|5..|999 httpstatus=h_app2;http://appsrv.example.com:81/;200;3..|4..|5..|999 alerts.cfg: SERVICE=h_app1 MAIL admin at example.com SERVICE=h_app2 MAIL admin2 at example.com Thomas henrik at hswn.dk schrieb: >On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 22:23:28 -0500, Betsy Schwartz ><betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a high-visibility request to change all of our server http >> tests so that they appear as separate tests per URL, with the ability >> to alert separately, sign out separately, etc. >> As most of our web servers are application servers in one form or >> another, the various URL's test very different functionality. > >I have been thinking about making this configurable, so you could do > > http=App1;http://myserver/App1 http=App2;http://myserver/App2 > >and have "App1" and "App2" appears as separate columns. > > >Haven't done any code yet, though, since this would happen "automagically" >with the new network tester I have underway for Xymon 5.0. So putting it >into 4.x would be somewhat of a wasted effort. > >But I have the same issue myself, so perhaps I should look at how much >effort it would take. > > >Regards, >Henrik > >_______________________________________________ >Xymon mailing list >Xymon at xymon.com >http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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disable requests not staying in place
by Paul.Root＠centurylink.com 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

We've been noticing that last week or two that requests for disabling alerts for a set time do not stay blue. If we set it to 'until ok' they will stay blue. Before the last few weeks, it had been fine. Our setup is a proxy updating the main system, due to firewall issues. I have installed 'bluesync.sh', that will send disable/enable alerts down to the proxy. The machines are CentOS 5.8 virtual machines on VMWare ESXi 4.1 servers. I'm running xymon 4.3.4. Any ideas. Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

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Splitting up HTTP into separate individual tests - best practice?
by tom＠it-eckert.de 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Wouldn't using the 'httpstatus'-test solve the problem of separate status columns and alerting? P probably i didn't get the hardcase correctly but the following example gives 2 columns (h_app1 and 2) and allows separate alerting. In addition xymon " feeds" the data to the http- column - so all checks are aggregated there. hosts.cfg: 1.2.3.4 appsrv.example.com # httpstatus=h_app1;http://appsrv.example.com:80/;200;3..|4..|5..|999 httpstatus=h_app2;http://appsrv.example.com:81/;200;3..|4..|5..|999 alerts.cfg: SERVICE=h_app1 MAIL admin at example.com SERVICE=h_app2 MAIL admin2 at example.com Thomas henrik at hswn.dk schrieb: >On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 22:23:28 -0500, Betsy Schwartz ><betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a high-visibility request to change all of our server http >> tests so that they appear as separate tests per URL, with the ability >> to alert separately, sign out separately, etc. >> As most of our web servers are application servers in one form or >> another, the various URL's test very different functionality. > >I have been thinking about making this configurable, so you could do > > http=App1;http://myserver/App1 http=App2;http://myserver/App2 > >and have "App1" and "App2" appears as separate columns. > > >Haven't done any code yet, though, since this would happen "automagically" >with the new network tester I have underway for Xymon 5.0. So putting it >into 4.x would be somewhat of a wasted effort. > >But I have the same issue myself, so perhaps I should look at how much >effort it would take. > > >Regards, >Henrik > >_______________________________________________ >Xymon mailing list >Xymon at xymon.com >http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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no vmstat data for 8 hours on weekdays?
by Mike.Burger＠FreedomMortgage.com 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

Hello, all. I've got something odd going on...I have one AIX 5.3 system for which the CPU Utilization (vmstat) graph is blank from 9AM to 5PM, only on weekdays. None of my other AIX systems (5.3 or 6.1) are displaying the same behavior. I've installed the same Hobbit client on all of my AIX instances. The vmstat processes are running as they should, and all of the other graphs in the trends area get data all day long. I've already looked and I have no "TIME" options set for this specific for this server in either the localclient.cfg file on the server nor the analysis.cfg on the Xymon server...in fact, other than this system's entry in the hosts.cfg, there is no mention of this system in any config file EXCEPT hosts.cfg. Any thoughts would be appreciated. -- Mike Burger AIX Administrator <http://freedomhome.fhmc.local/intranet/main.jsp> Phone (317) 537-3680, Fax (317) 537-4680, Cell (317) 797-2040 E-mail: Mike.Burger at FreedomMortgage.com <mailto:Anthony.House at freedommortgage.com> "Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time." --Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including all attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, alteration or distribution is strictly prohibited and may violate state or federal law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail, delete this email and destroy all copies of the message.

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