December 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

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

20 Dec '12

I have been adding hosts to a custom file bb-zenor for monitoring. I noticed that when checking my ghost list it was displaying the following error Failed to retrieve ghostlist from server I then did some research and read that restarting xymon would help but when i try to restart it i get the following 2012-12-19 11:17:13 Loading hostnames 2012-12-19 11:17:13 Loading saved state 2012-12-19 11:17:13 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2012-12-19 11:17:13 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2012-12-19 11:17:13 Task xymond terminated, status 1 Also for the machines monitored if i try to click onto one of the links i get the following error. Cannot load host configuration I checked and we are not using bb-proxy or any proxy's at all. Any ideas on why this would be happening -- Keith Ferguson Cell:631*882*4409 Systems Administrator

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Email Alert for xymon
by ashwingrwl＠gmail.com 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

Hi Team, We have xymon installed on Linux server. I want to configure our email id when anything wrong goes with the monitoring (like CPU stops reporting,etc.) Could you please tell where we need to configure the email ids so that we can get those alerts. Please let me know if you need any more information from my end. Thanks for your help. Ashwin.

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Monitoring HTTPS sites
by jewel.brueggeman-makda＠washburn.edu 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

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

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Windows Mount Points not graphing
by ray.reuter＠gmail.com 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

I have a few new machines that have mount points that are not graphing, but show up as broken images on the bottom of the page. Any ideas?No other machine has this issue when graphing, all of the Linux machines show their mount points. [image: Inline image 1]

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quick questions - ignores in client-local.cfg?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

Can I say for example [linux] log:/var/log/messages:102400 ignore nslcd ignore MARK ignore %.*be2net.* or do those all have to be one regexp? (and can I say "ignore nslcd" or does it have to be "ignore %.*nslcd.* " ?

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Behavior of RECOVERED in alerts.cfg
by raylee88＠gmail.com 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

I have a question about the RECOVERED flag in alerts.cfg. Here's an example: PAGE=somepage COLOR=red MAIL somebody at somewhere.com DURATION>7 RECOVERED REPEAT=1h The behavior I'm seeing is that if a test on PAGE=somepage turns red for less than 7 minutes and then turns green again, we'll get an email for the recovery but not the initial red state. Is this the expected behavior of the RECOVERED flag? Is it possible to configure Xymon to send a recovered notification *only* if there was a corresponding notification that was sent for the initial red state? Thanks, Ray

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xymon graphs are not visible
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Please keep replies on the mailing list. The installation docs are inside the distribution file, and I'm pretty sure can be accessed from the Help menu in the sample site, xymon.com. From: Ashwin Agarwal [mailto:ashwingrwl at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:39 AM To: Novosielski, Ryan Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon graphs are not visible Could you please give me the installation documentation link for Linux which you are following. I just want to cross check that we are following the same and not missing anything. Thanks for your help on this. Ashwin. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Novosielski, Ryan <novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>> wrote: All of the files are included, and should be installed when someone runs the "make install" portion of the process. If you are missing anything, the process is incomplete and you should look to have it done again correctly. The installation documentation is pretty clear (I followed it myself recently). From: Ashwin Agarwal [mailto:ashwingrwl at gmail.com<mailto:ashwingrwl at gmail.com>] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:30 AM To: Novosielski, Ryan Cc: cleaver at terabithia.org<mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org> <cleaver at terabithia.org<mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org>>; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon graphs are not visible I am sorry about that ryan. Actually i didn't installed xymon. The team who installed xymon for us i already sent those questions to them and awaiting for their response. I guess they installed xymon using tarball. That's all i know. Thanks, Ashwin. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Novosielski, Ryan <novosirj at umdnj.edu<mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>> wrote: My advice to you is that if you want help, you should answer the questions that people ask you. From: Ashwin Agarwal [mailto:ashwingrwl at gmail.com<mailto:ashwingrwl at gmail.com>] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 07:15 PM To: cleaver at terabithia.org<mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org> <cleaver at terabithia.org<mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org>> Cc: Novosielski, Ryan; Xymon Email List <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon graphs are not visible Thank you for the showgraph.sh file. I will also need showgraph.cgi file. Can anybody please provide me that file in a zipped format. Ashwin. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:53 PM, <cleaver at terabithia.org<mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org>> wrote: > > How did you install Xymon? > > On 12/17/2012 05:23 PM, Ashwin Agarwal wrote: >> Actually i checked that /xymon-cgi directory. Found that >> "showgraph.sh " is missing there. Can anybody please give me what >> is mentioned in that script. I will copy it and see if it works. >> >> Thank you, Ashwin. >> Yeah, sounds like there may have been an issue on install. FWIW, showgraph.sh is just a wrapper for showgraph.cgi. On my system it looks like this, but adjust your paths as needed: === begin ==== #!/bin/sh # This is the Xymon CGI script interface to showgraph.cgi # # Install this script in your webservers' cgi-bin directory . /usr/share/xymon/server/etc/cgioptions.cfg exec /usr/share/xymon/server/bin/showgraph.cgi $CGI_SHOWGRAPH_OPTS === end ==== HTH, -jc

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Monitor host not shown on Xymon Display?
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way to monitor a host and not have it show up on the display machine? I'm fine with having it accessible via a direct URL, and I do need to send alerts for the "conn" test but I don't want it to show on the main display instance at all. I suppose an alernate pageset is an option, but are there any better? Thanks. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/EI-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDQ0dgACgkQmb+gadEcsb4pAgCg14pPsVdZANoKLEUgU4R4Vjlm Dn8AniGh+/DINby65IhOSWxvISFrU/g4 =e+dp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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FW: RRD Graph stopped graphing
by tm＠freedom.com 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Looks like I forget to reply all, so this did not hit the group. ________________________________________ From: Tim McCloskey Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:18 AM To: Michael Beatty Subject: RE: [Xymon] RRD Graph stopped graphing You probably need to recreate the rrd files based on your new interval. One easy way would be to stop the client, move the current 'testname.rrd' file to a backup location, then restart the client. You can later use rrdtool --dump (or whatever the syntax is, I don't recall) to look at the internals of the old and new files if you are interested. Regards, Tim ________________________________________ From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Michael Beatty [Michael.Beatty at sherwin.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:42 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] RRD Graph stopped graphing I had two custom RRD graphs setup and running fine on client systems. The script that collects the data was running every minute. After I finished testing, I changed the frequency of the scripts on the clients to 1 hour in the clientlaunch.cfg file. When I did, the RRD graph stopped displaying data. It ran like this for a couple days. I changed clientlaunch.cfg back to 1 minute... and the graphs immediately started graphing again. Is there a minimum time frame that is needed, or something else that must be done? What am I missing? -- Michael Beatty _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon

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Generate page with specific graphs for all hosts?
by Mike.Burger＠FreedomMortgage.com 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

I would like to have a page generated that shows the current (48 hours) view for the "vmstat" graphs for either a batch/group of servers or all servers. Basically, like the trends page for a particular server, but rather than have all of the disks, memory, io etc, just the current vmstat/cpu utilization view, with the same drill down options as are presented on the trends page. Is there a simple way to do this using xymongen/xymonweb? 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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