December 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

multiple content checks in one column
by t.koerfer＠gevasys.de 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Is it possible to get multiple content checks in one column? Background: - I have a IIS-Webserver with some DOT.NET WebServices - Each WebService has multiple test I want to check Example: cont=Service1;http://webserver/Service1/test1;true cont=Service1;http://webserver/Service1/test2;true cont=Service1;http://webserver/Service1/test3;true cont=Service2;http://webserver/Service2/test1;true cont=Service2;http://webserver/Service2/test2;true cont=Service2;http://webserver/Service2/test3;true If I only define the content checks, I got 6 columns but I want a combination for each Service (like in the HTTP test). My example above does not work because only one test was shown on the side... Any Suggestions? Google finds the same problem since 2006 but there seems to be no solution?!? b.r. TK

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Xymon HTTP 404 not found - Please help
by ashwingrwl＠gmail.com 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi, We installed xymon on Linux box. And when we launch the url http://servername/xymon we are getting message " HTTP 404 not found". When we run http://servername/ it is working but http://servername/xymon is not working. Could someone please help what could be the issue and how we need to fix it. Thanks for your time and help. Best Regards, Ashwin.

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Simple Network Tests not displaying
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

I'm not getting any data about my clients on any simple network tests, such as, ssh, telnet, etc. The only column that is showing up that is listed in the hosts.cfg man page is "bbd" I'm using the default protocols.cfg and tasks.cfg. xymonnet.log file is small, doesn't have any data in it since June. The xymonnet column for my server is showing data and statistics. Any help would be appreciated. -- Michael Beatty

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Xymon 4.3.10 and "multi-source status" errors
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My xymond test is often yellow, and near as I can tell, the reason is often that I have so-called "multi-source statuses." However, the "second" source is the Xymon server, and this appears to happen most often when tests are disabled (as the blue status comes from the Xymon server). Should I be ignoring this? Is there a misconfiguration somewhere that has this server not properly identifying messages from itself? Thanks for your help. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |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/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDHc6YACgkQmb+gadEcsb6IRACfTH2APBg6vkSYdAd2FPfMKmUJ aygAoL6HVCab1U2X+eIb/GSNYqZNcmCN =754I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Alerts based on rrd graphs
by kc6ovd＠gmail.com 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Anyone doing any alerting on graphed rrd data? Just looking for some sample of what you might be doing. -Kevin

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Technical questions regarding message flow
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

I have some technical questions in regard to how the actual message flow between server / clients take place. The first questions relate to network traffic. My intent is to monitor a large number of clients (getting close to 9,000) so this is going to be a question I need to fully understand before I go too far. What does the message look like and how big is it (excluding message text) ? Is it XML? How is the connection made between the client and host? Are sockets made? How does the server handle large volumes of connections. One thing I have read is that any bottle necks will be more likely with disk I/O than network traffic, is this fair? Secondly, what is the process of message flow between client and server? I understand how the xymonclient is configured to run at a defined interval (configured in clientlaunch.cfg), it gathers data from its logs and sends the data to the server. The server saves this in its /data/hist path along with any rrd data. The server uses this data to display its web pages. The next part I'm not sure I understand correctly.... The sever then sends a response to the client that contains data that instructs the client what information it wants next time (this is taken from hosts.cfg?) The client then uses this response to determine which information to collect and send the next time the client is launched. So, aside from the server's ping test, all traffic is initiated by the client? Thank you for any help. -- Michael Beatty

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Connecting the "history" file dots...
by David.Mills＠ngc.com 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Hi, All! In poking around my data directory, I see a listing like this for the "cpu" test data for one of my hosts: $ ls -rt /export/xymon/data/histlogs/pwmu002/cpu/ total 61 drwxr-xr-x 22 hobbit monitor 22 Dec 30 2010 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Feb 17 2012 Fri_Feb_17_00:30:59_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Feb 17 2012 Fri_Feb_17_01:51:10_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Feb 25 2012 Sat_Feb_25_09:41:40_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Feb 25 2012 Sat_Feb_25_12:52:12_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Jun 24 10:21 Sun_Jun_24_10:21:19_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.8K Jun 24 11:19 Sun_Jun_24_11:19:10_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.8K Jun 24 11:54 Sun_Jun_24_11:54:21_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Nov 5 12:41 Mon_Nov_5_12:40:58_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Nov 5 13:30 Mon_Nov_5_13:30:54_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Dec 2 13:37 Sun_Dec_2_13:37:24_2012 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit monitor 1.9K Dec 2 14:07 Sun_Dec_2_14:07:31_2012 Each of these files is some sort of snapshot of the data displayed when you click on the "cpu" icon for the indicated host in Xymon. Why then, is the most recent data file a couple weeks old but the data displayed for the "cpu" icon is current on the screen? Thanks! david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Mills Systems Administrator Northrop Grumman 512-595-1238 david.mills at ngc.com

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Nesting include files hosts.cfg
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

It looks like the answer is no, but I'm going to try anyway. I've tested it and it doesn't appear to work, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. I have a large number of hosts to monitor. Is there a way to nest the tags for the hosts into a list of hosts to include into the hosts.cfg file? For Example: If I have a: group-only test1|test2|test3 host1 # test1 test2 test3 host2 # test1 test2 test3 host3 # test1 test2 test3 Is there a way I could do something along the lines of: having a file - tests.dat test1 test2 test3 and including it into a file hosts.dat host1 # include tests.dat host2 # include tests.dat host3 # include tests.dat and then putting in into the hosts.cfg file group-old test1|test2|test3 include hosts.dat Thank you. -- Michael Beatty

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Alerts based on rrd graphs
by kc6ovd＠att.net 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Anyone doing any alerting on graphed rrd data? Just looking for some sample of what you might be doing. -Kevin

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hobbit-> xymon migration - devmon RRD - separator changed from comma to dot
by nicolas＠lienard.name 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Hi After migrating an existing cluster from hobbit 4.2 to Xymon 4.3.10, everything is fine except RRD from DEVMON. Previously, there were like this: -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 38624 Dec 12 10:45 if_load,Gi0_1.rrd And now, like this: -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 38624 Dec 12 12:56 if_load.Gi0_1.rrd The difference is subtil: between load and Gi0, there is a "." (dot) instead of a "," (comma). Results is graphs are stuck on the date of migration because the graphs are taken the RRD with ",". I could delete them but i 'll lost history (2 years). I m going to copy the "," files to "." files to have full history and a small hole. But at first, wanted to know if anybody experienced this kind of issue ? Thanks in advance, Cheers Nico

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