November 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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

01 Nov '12

Hi! I need a hand here: when I run xymon <server> xymondboard" /usr/bin/awk -F\| '$3 !~ /green/ {print $1, $2, $3}' I get a huge list of non-green hosts. Even filtering out "clear", "blue" and "purple", I get well over 140 hosts listed. However, the current number of hosts on our "Non-green" report page is only around 20! Can anyone help me start tracking down the discrepancy? Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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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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