November 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Custom script working as the builtin http test
by heine.andersen＠gmail.com 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, I'm trying to write a server side script to monitor MQ put/get status and times, the script output looks like this : Tue Nov 6 09:08:38 CET 2012 MQ1 - OK put : 21 get : 20 MQ2 - OK put : 20 get : 20 The script works well, but i can't figure out how to do the graphs the same way as the built in http, that is with multiple test showing up in the same graph, is that possible ?

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Troubleshooting Purple CONN and HTTP Tests in Xymon 4.3.10
by Don.Kuhlman＠schawk.com 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Hi folks. We've been running xymon for about 10 months now. It's been fine all this time. However last week around Wednesday we started getting purple storms on the CONN and HTTP tests for all our hosts. I stop Xymon and restart it, or reboot the server (Linux 5.x) and then it comes back ok. This also happened Thursday, and then again Saturday around 2PM cst. Anyone have a link or source for which logs to look in on the server or xymon to see what may be causing the CONN and HTTP tests to randomly start failing like this or where to start troubleshooting? Can I use xymonlaunch —debug like this to see what is happening? /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/xymonlaunch --debug --config=/usr/lib64/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg --env=/usr/lib64/etc/xymonserver.cfg While searching the xymon forum and message boards, I saw some things that say it may be disk space or inodes, but it seems like we are ok there - df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda2 3899392 204731 3694661 6% / tmpfs 490139 6 490133 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 32768 51 32717 1% /boot df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 61312028 5748784 52448700 10% / tmpfs 1960556 188 1960368 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 516040 87716 402112 18% /boot DNS also seems fine. Thanks Don K

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problems with Xymon SSL
by leszek.geba＠gmail.com 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hi, I am trying to install Xymon version 4.3.10 on CentOS CentOS Linux 6.3 Linux 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 on x86_64 there is a problem with SSL installation. I am running ./configure.server script When do it comes to SSL section it says: ..... Checking for OpenSSL ... Compiling with SSL library works OK Linking with SSL library works OK Checking if your SSL library has SSLv2 enabled Will support SSLv2 when testing SSL-enabled network services Xymon can use the OpenSSL library to test SSL-enabled services like https-encrypted websites, POP3S, IMAPS, NNTPS and TELNETS. If you have the OpenSSL library installed, I recommend that you enable this. Do you want to be able to test SSL-enabled services (y) ? y ... All installation process runs without problem, however after starting Xymon it cannot do any SSL based test. Like for example: Sat Nov 3 16:00:46 2012: Server timeout https://mail.bussq.com.au/ - Server timeout When I am checking /home/xymon/server/bin/xymonnet --version xymonnet version 4.3.10 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20423 and no information about SSL, which means it is installed without SSL support. (is it correct?) OpenSSL package is installed and I can execute commands related to it. Can anyone point me out what I am doing wrong? Or what else I need to check? Thank you -- regards Leszek G Geba

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MAGMA XYMon Web GUI Admin Now Available!
by lebarber＠gmail.com 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

I've tried to install this on my test box and am not having much luck. 1. There is nothing in the www directory in the tarball, so I copied all the .php files in the top directory to my xymon directory. That does not work. I get a 404 whenever I try to access one of the pages, the message has an untranslated $XYMONSERVERWWWURL in the URL it says it can't find. 2. You missed a couple of explicit references to /var/www in MAGMA.php, these are referring to a .pl script that doesn't exist on my system. 3. You should probably warn people that copying over the contents of the /etc/ directory will wipe out any changes they have made to xymonmenu.cfg. 4. Minor issue, you have a repeated "the" in managealerts line 65 and managehosts line 223. Thanks, Larry Barber On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote: > Wow. That looks amazing. Very well done! > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Shannon Anderson <sanderson at cornetser.com > > wrote: > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Xymon mailing list >> Xymon at xymon.com >> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon > >

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MAGMA XYMon Web GUI Admin Now Available!
by henrik＠hswn.dk 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi Cubert, > 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. this looks very interesting, I'll definitely give it a try! Thanks for sharing it. Regards, Henrik

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EXT :Re: Non-green page listing not complete?
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Thanks so much, Betsy! I poked around (even read through source code!) and finally found the issue: all the "missing" hosts from the NonGreen report had the "nobb2" tag in the hosts.cfg file. Turns out "nobb2" is the old way of saying "NONONGREEN" (see http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/xymon-xmh.5.html) Thanks for the push in the right direction! david -----Original Message----- From: Betsy Schwartz [mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:04 PM To: Mills, David (IS) Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: EXT :Re: [Xymon] Non-green page listing not complete? My lists also match. So part of the question is, why is your non-green report page missing data? And another part is, is anyone else experiencing this, or is it just you? What version of xymon are you running for the server, and for the clients, and on what OS? Can you find any sort of pattern that distinguishes what is missing from what appears?

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Disk Messages being misparsed
by vachon＠sessionm.com 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

I'm not sure to stop this, but it is becoming an epidemic for all of our hosts. The message is clearly being mis-parsed, restarting the client send a clean disk message. I have a very large message size allowed and I'm not getting warnings about messages over the limit. Th] Nov 1 13:08:04 UTC 2012 - Filesystems NOT ok 54% / (4535836% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 1% /lib/init/rw (873004% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 1% /dev (867876% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 0% /dev/shm (873012% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) 1% /mnt (331757456% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Filesyst m ] ]1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 10321208 5261084 4535836 54% / tmpfs 873012 8 873004 1% /lib/init/rw udev 868012 136 867876 1% /dev tmpfs 873012 0 873012 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 350891748 1310012 331757456 1% /mnt -- Thomas Vachon Principal Operations Architect *session M*

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Custom step and heartbeats. The rrddefinitions.cfg
by cornmaster＠gmail.com 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

I created a test that reports back some file sizes from a Windows server. The files don't change much, so I set the test to run every 15 minutes. My rrd file has all NaN, even though I confirmed the data is reported using the lastupdate command in rrdtool. I understand that this is because the default step/heartbeat are configured for a 5 minute window of checks, and my 15 minute checkins fall outside of this range, and therefore aren't added to the file. These are my assumptions thus far, and if they are wrong, please correct me. So what I did was use rrdtool tune command to change the heartbeat of my 5 data types to 1000 seconds. Which should allow my 15 minute updates to get logged correctly. Not sure if that has worked yet, hasn't been 15 minutes. But I wanted to ask about the rrddefinitions.cfg file. I understand that I can change the step/heartbeat settings on RRD file creation using this file. But I can't understand part of the config. Here is the contents of that file: # 576 datapoints w/ 5 minute interval = 48 hours @ 5 min avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:576 # 576 datapoints w/ 6*5 minute averaged = 12 days @ 30 min avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:576 # 576 datapoints w/ 24*5 minute averaged = 48 days @ 2 hour avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:576 # 576 datapoints w/ 288*5 minute averaged = 576 days @ 1 day avg. RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:576 I won't say I understand it all, but this is what I have deduced so far: - RRA:AVERAGE: - needs to be there. - 0.5: - Don't know what this is for. I assume it have something to do with the span of the step/heartbeat. - 1: or 6: or 24: etc... - The number of datapoints collected per graph interval. - 576 - The total datapoints saved. Can anyone provide some insight into this file? Thanks, Thomas

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