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xymon 4.3.10 compile on centos 6.3 : error on pcre_free
by epoinsignon＠temenos.com 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Hello, I am trying to compile xymon (client) 4.3.10 on my Linux Centos 6.3 newly installed in full 64 bits (no 32bits whatever), following process: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html#commonrhel6 I installed all needed pcre-devel and other *-devel packages. But I got stucked at the make command : root at lxtest:/tools/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10 > make CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-pointer-sign -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -DLOCALCLIENT=1 -I" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DLINUX" RPATHOPT="-Wl,--rpath," PCREINCDIR="-I" ZLIBINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="" LIBRTDEF="-lrt" XYMONTOPDIR="/tools/xymon/4.3.10" XYMONLOGDIR="" XYMONHOSTNAME="" XYMONHOSTIP="10.20.51.61" XYMONHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="yes" make -C lib client make[1]: Entering directory `/nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -Wno-pointer-sign -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I/tools/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -DLOCALCLIENT=1 -I -I../include -I -c -o matching.o matching.c /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start': (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main' /tmp/cc3Djvrt.o: In function `freeregex': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:66: undefined reference to `pcre_free' /tmp/cc3Djvrt.o: In function `matchregex': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:58: undefined reference to `pcre_exec' /tmp/cc3Djvrt.o: In function `pickdata': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:165: undefined reference to `pcre_exec' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:172: undefined reference to `pcre_copy_substring' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:183: undefined reference to `dbgprintf' /tmp/cc3Djvrt.o: In function `compileregex_opts': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:31: undefined reference to `dbgprintf' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:32: undefined reference to `pcre_compile' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:34: undefined reference to `errprintf' /tmp/cc3Djvrt.o: In function `compile_exprs': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:145: undefined reference to `errprintf' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:146: undefined reference to `pcre_free' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:147: undefined reference to `xfreenullstr' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:147: undefined reference to `errprintf' /tmp/cc3Djvrt.o: In function `timematch': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib/matching.c:198: undefined reference to `within_sla' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [matching.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.10/tempo/xymon-4.3.10/lib' make: *** [lib-client] Error 2 I also tried on 2 other boxes with same os version but got the same error. I cannot find what is wrong, can you please help ? BTW, I also tried on same machine to compile xymon 4.3.3 and got another "regex" error : ... make[1]: Entering directory `/nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.3/tempo/xymon-4.3.3/xymond' gcc -o ../client/xymond_client -Wl,--rpath,/usr/lib64 xymond_client.o xymond_worker.o xymond_buffer.o client_config.o ../lib/xymonclient.a - L/usr/lib64 -lpcre xymond_client.o: In function `handle_irix_client': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.3/tempo/xymon-4.3.3/xymond/client/irix.c:80: undefined reference to `compileregex' xymond_worker.o: In function `net_worker_heartbeat': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.3/tempo/xymon-4.3.3/xymond/xymond_worker.c:80: undefined reference to `locator_serverup' xymond_worker.o: In function `net_worker_run': /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.3/tempo/xymon-4.3.3/xymond/xymond_worker.c:292: undefined reference to `locator_init' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.3/tempo/xymon-4.3.3/xymond/xymond_worker.c:298: undefined reference to `locator_register_server' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.3/tempo/xymon-4.3.3/xymond/xymond_worker.c:317: undefined reference to `locator_serverdown' /nas/tools/RedHat/EL_6/xymon/4.3.3/tempo/xymon-4.3.3/xymond/xymond_worker.c:312: undefined reference to `locator_serverdown' ... Thanks in advance for your support and for the nice xymon tool. Best regards. Eric The information in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee or addressees. Any use or disclosure of the contents of this e-mail/attachments by a not intended recipient is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of TEMENOS. We recommend that you check this e-mail and any attachments against viruses. TEMENOS accepts no liability for any damage caused by any malicious code or virus transmitted by this e-mail.

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Generate page with specific graphs for all hosts?
by thomas.eckert＠IT-Eckert.de 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

I hacked up something like this for the network traffic graphs -- adjusting to any other graph should be easy. No bells and whistles, just a static filter for the hosts of interest . IIRC I used 'xymonpage.cgi' to wrap up generated links to 'showgraph.cgi'. I'll check if I can bring it in shape for sharing if desired. Thomas Michael Burger <Mike.Burger at FreedomMortgage.com> schrieb: >_______________________________________________ >Xymon mailing list >Xymon at xymon.com >http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg
by a.chervonets＠cominder.eu 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Try to assign hosts to variables like: $GROUP_PROD=host1,host2, host5 $GROUP_TEST=host3,host6.... $GROUP_ALL=$GROUP_PROD,$GROUP_TEST etc. and then define rules using such variables instead of real hostnames or reg.expressions This is working for alerts, may be it is working for analysis as well. Not checked yet. Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ---------------------- CoMinder Ltd. http://www.cominder.eu/ On 22.12.2012 13:00, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote: > Re: Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

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Custom step and heartbeats. The rrddefinitions.cfg
by cornmaster＠gmail.com 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '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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netapp.pl system clock error
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 23 Dec '12

23 Dec '12

Hi, I'm facing to a new issue with the netapp.pl : "System clock is 28944022 seconds off (max 20)" I updated my filer time & date but I keep have the errors, any ideas how I could fix it ? Thanks !

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Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg
by cornmaster＠gmail.com 22 Dec '12

22 Dec '12

We have 50 or 60 servers configured across a number of pages in our xymon instance. Instead of having 60 host=hostname entries with generic entries across all of the servers, I want to set up some groups/tags/etc... that can be applied to a host. So, I figured out I could do: PAGE=DELTS/*/* #Defaults for all DELTS Servers PROC crond 1 -1 red "TEXT=crond : Task Scheduler" PROC ntpd 1 -1 yellow "TEXT=ntpd : Network Time Client" To go across all of our servers on our subpages to apply these two proc checks. What I would like to do is get a bit more specific. We have a mix of physical machines, virtual machines, and linux machines, windows machines, and production machines and development machines. I'd like to be able to tag hosts somehow so I can do something like this: Host 1 = Linux, Production, VM Host 2 = Linux, Physical, Dev Linux: PROC - ntp, cron Production: PROC - backup client VM: PROC - vmwaretools Physical: nothing additional. Dev: nothing additional So for Host1 it will do the following PROC tests: ntp, cron, backup client, vmwaretools Whereas Host2 will only do: ntp, cron I understand that if I had hosts configured into like groups, or subpages then I could target the whole works that way, but I currently have my hosts configured in a way that this is not practical. Essentially I have all hosts divided into 3 major groups, and then a number of subgroups, and then the hosts are listed here based on application cluster or function. Basing it on groups or pages would also require me to create a bunch of additional rules to account for each of the situations above, whereas something like a tag that a host could have multiple of would simplify things. Can anyone provide any insight as to how I can achieve these goals? Thanks, Thomas

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Xymon web interface missing?
by Elliott.Barrere＠mywedding.com 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

You need to start Xymon so it creates bb.html and a soft link index.html Ah, thanks Josh, so the Xymon process creates the index.html. I did _try_ to start the service. It said "Starting Xymon: Xymon started", but maybe something went wrong. Looking in the logs, I see a few things that might be a problem, knowing now that Xymon creates the index file: $ tail /var/log/xymon/xymongen.log 2012-12-20 08:55:30 -> Recipient '<IP>', timeout 15 2012-12-20 08:55:30 -> 1st line: 'xymondboard fields=hostname,testname,color,flags,lastchange,logtime,validtime,acktime,disabletime,sender,cookie,line1,acklist' 2012-12-20 08:55:30 xymond status-board not available, code 7 2012-12-20 08:55:30 Failed to load current Xymon status, aborting page-update 2012-12-20 08:56:32 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout) So it sounds like maybe I need to get some host checks working before it will create the web interface? Any thoughts on why the IP of the server itself would timeout during checks? I've verified that fping <IP> reports the host is alive, but beyond that I'm not sure where to look. I've also just tried disabling the firewall and restarting Xymon, with no luck. Thanks! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373

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Unable to start client
by keith＠zenofon.com 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

I am trying to run the client on a few boxes and im getting the following error. cannot write to the xymon-4.3.10/client/logs directory In the clients directory there is no logs directory and im getting this on a few boxes. Any ideas ? -- Keith Ferguson Office:212-822-3460 x 123 Cell:631-882-4409 Systems Administrator

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Monitoring HTTPS sites
by Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Never leave the mailing list. Always reply all. Yes, that is different. We're talking Linux here. You don't specify, so we on the list are forced to guess. The openssl Linux package is just the executable. You need header files, etc. to be able to compile things to use it. -----Original Message----- From: Jewel Makda [mailto:jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:12 PM To: Root, Paul Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites I do have OpenSSL version 1.0.1 installed. Is this different? Jewel On 12/19/2012 11:59 AM, Root, Paul wrote: > You need openssl-devel installed. You may need to recompile or reinstall Xymon after you add it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jewel Makda > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:24 AM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites > > I am running version 4.3.5 > When I run xymonnet --version I don't get any SSL libraries - just my version. > I would like to be able to monitor some https sites but when I add the urls to the hosts.cfg file it fails. I am running the web console for my Xymon server over https. I am a newbie to linux so responses could be dummied down it would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > -- Jewel > _______________________________________________ > 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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Xymon web interface missing?
by Elliott.Barrere＠mywedding.com 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Hi all, I have a fresh install of Xymon on CentOS 5, following the instructions here: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/install.html There were no errors during configure or install, but now when trying to access the URL, I see a directory listing (folders called gifs, help, html, menu, etc) rather than the Xymon web interface. Sorry to pose this question here, but I have no idea how this is supposed to work. Should there be an index.php/index.html that is missing or somehow didn't get installed? An Alias to the correct file in the Apache config (xymon.conf)? Thanks for any help!

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