December 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Troubleshooting
by Nick＠Pettefar.com 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

We are not getting alerts for the word "error" appearing in /var/adm/messages. How would we go about troubleshooting this? Regards, Nick

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bbwin .13 cpu utilization always shows as high
by MatthewHarris＠air-watch.com 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

I have just set up a new xymon server, and all the windows clients are showing the cpu utilization as high when they are at 5%, do you know of any fix for this, btw xymon is great, I really like it, just gotta try and work through a couple bugs to get it into prod. Thanks in advance!!! Matthew Harris Datacenter Ops O | +1 404.902.xxxx C | +1 404.xxx.xxxx F | +1 404.902.xxxx MatthewHarris at air-watch.com<mailto:MatthewHarris at air-watch.com> www.air-watch.com<http://www.air-watch.com/> [Description: Description: Description: cid:3420106421_29290231] This communication is confidential and is intended to be privileged pursuant to applicable law. If you are not a designated recipient of this message, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this message or its attachments. Notify the sender by replying to this message and delete or destroy all copies of this message and attachments in all media. Thank you.

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holiday as planned downtime
by Jurgen.Claessens＠cegeka.be 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hey all, I'm running xymon 4.3.7 and I have been trying to find a way so that the holidays are being showed as what would be the same for the alerting. For me this would mean that if it's a holiday they would show as planned downtime and not show up in the allnongreen window. The alerting itself works without problems, but I cannot find a way for the planned downtime act the same way. Can anyone point me in the right direction? This e-mail and all files transmitted as attachment(s) thereto are confidential and solely intended for the individual to whom or the organization to which they are addressed. If you received this e-mail by mistake, please notify Cegeka's Service Desk at cegeka.support at cegeka.be or call +32 (0)11 240 363. We thank you in advance. Cegeka hereby confirms that this message has been swept by Sophos for the presence of viruses.

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A couple of migration questions
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Going to upgrade from 4.2.3 to 4.3.10 next week and I want to answer just a quick couple of questions (I'll outline my setups briefly so you can warn me if you see a caveat). I have one server running two Solaris zones, one with a somewhat internal view of our network, one with a somewhat external view -- both have a xymonnet and xymonnetagain running. I also have another server running xymongen, clientdata, alert, etc. that hosts what I'd have formerly called the BBDISPLAY. What is going to be happening is I'm moving the latter pieces on the "display" server to a different server and upgrading to 4.3.10. At the same time, I'm going to upgrade the xymonnet machines to 4.3.10 and point them at the new server. I've really already done all of this, but on an alternate port for the two xymonnet machines. I plan to change back to the standard port when I go live with it, and to copy any data to the new live machine that has changed in the interim. My questions are: 1) Do the xymonnet machines listen on the Xymon port? They seem to, but I can't see any reason why they should. If they didn't, I'd configure the xymonnet machines to use the standard port 1984 to give me less to do when going live. 2) When I am ready to switch over to the new "display" server which is the one that has all of the history data and RRD files and all of that, do I just need to sync the hostdata directory to be sure that the historical information is not lost, or are there other things as well (as well as are there things in hostdata I should NOT copy over)? The RRD files from the old host work on the new host, and I currently have a running copy of 4.3.10 that was created from upgrading a copy of the 4.2.3 software on the original machine. 3) I see that xymonproxy cannot share a machine with xymond as they both use the same port. I assume depending on the answer to question 1, it can share a machine with xymonnet, right? 4) A couple of events (including the recent hurricane we had over here) have raised the need for a second Xymon server in cases where a campus will be unavailable for some time. Is using xymonproxy to distribute this information the way to go in a master/slave situation? Defining multiple XYMSRV's? Something else? Thanks for any insights anyone is willing to give. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |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/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDA+LcACgkQmb+gadEcsb4A+QCeLAANykvfRHvM3SaQUtSGveKR 6iAAn22wknww/9f00y2D51vjhBmXfPbR =Xiu3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Yellow n Red alerts
by maheshy04＠gmail.com 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hi All, I could not see the history of red and yellow alerts ,I am able to view green. When I click on red/yellow alerts..it throws below error.Please help to sort this issue.Tried removing and and re-installing hobbit rpm but no luck. Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, you at yourhost.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.41 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 Regards, Mahesh

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MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension
by cami＠hack.co.za 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Morsiani, Massimo < massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com> wrote: > Hi all,**** > > ** ** > > I have followed Cami’s suggestion (strip away TABS) and something is > changed that is I can see MAPE’ view in Firefox 17 now, but I cannot see it > in IE 9. > I have taken your data.php (that you mailed me offlist) and the tree is showing correctly in all browsers (IE9 / Chrome / FF / etc) when all the TABS are replaced. Regards, Cami

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MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension
by massimo.morsiani＠gilbarco.com 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hi Cami, I have just installed MAPE on our Xymon installation and I have found that: 1) I can see MAPE view using Safari ONLY (!). Using IE 9 or Firefox 17 I can see only black screen (?) 2) I don't know what MAPE version I'm using but I have no hover info for red/yellow hosts. What about adding a version info inside the package? 3) What about launching parse-config.pl using Xymon's tasks.cfg instead of using xymoncmd in crontab? 4) In the tree view I can see hosts configured in my hosts.cfg but in some cases also the "group-only" tag text (see attached screen shot) [cid:image001.png at 01CDD315.E8583040] Thanks for your great work! Regards. Massimo Morsiani Information Technology Dept. ------ Gilbarco S.r.l. via de' Cattani, 220/G 50145 Firenze, Italy tel: +39-055-30941 fax: +39-055-318603 email: massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com<mailto:massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com> web: http://www.gilbarco.it ü Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: mercoledì 28 novembre 2012 18:42 To: Cami Sardinha; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension Another thing...the tree view appears to ignore NAME directives in the hosts.cfg file and displays the "actual" host rather than the value displayed in the "NAME" field. From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:39 PM To: Cami Sardinha; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension Only one other note...If the "organization" is set to something "long", only around 9 characters show up. From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:57 AM To: Cami Sardinha; xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension Very nice, Cami. I'm wondering about the roadmap...I see that step 1.4 will generate hovering info for red/yellow hosts...will there also be an option to click on the host, in question, to get directly to the alarms? For that matter, will there be an option to click on green hosts to go to their info? Thanks again...this is a great looking tool. From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Cami Sardinha Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:28 AM To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] MAPÉ - Monitoring App Page Extension Hi all, Just a quick mail to say there is a download link posted with installation instructions listed on the site ( http://mape.hack.co.za ). Feel free to provide comments or ideas either off or on list. Cheers, Cami 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. 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. 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. Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and delete this message. The sender disclaims that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any agreement; provided that the foregoing does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment.

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TS - Maintenance Mode for a group of hosts?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

I have a request to take an entire area of hosts and place setup a maintenance window starting at a certain time and for say 3 hours. Is there a script that I can send it a list and have it place all of the devices in maintenance mode? All corporate servers will require a window of 3 hours at 6pm tonight. Also, is there any option on the HOST line that will not show up (like an actual comment not the COMMENT: entry) that can be used to select them from. e.g. the word 'CORP' in the options like that will normally be ignored by Xymon? I am running Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2. Also, is there a way to show the COMMENT or DESCRIPTION on the line like it does in the non-green view under this release? Thanks, Tom Schmitt Senior IT Staff Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Phone (801) 594-3030 \\\\||//// \ ~ ~ / | @ @ | --oOo---(_)---oOo-- Have A Nice Day ! It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -- W. Edwards Deming

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RRD Tool, values with leading zeros
by Michael.Beatty＠sherwin.com 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

I have a custom graph that displays a response time in seconds, the value is often under 1 second so it is padded with leading zeros, ie. 0.0123. When there are leading 0's the rrd is written as "NaN". How can I get rrd to grab leading 0's?

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migrate server
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/14/2012 06:58 AM, Betsy Schwartz wrote: > The "reconfigure client" thing bit me a couple times - xymon > hardcodes the host IP into the binaries. I cloned a dev server and > it fired up and started happily sending data to the primary before > I rebuilt xymon. I have never experienced a problem with this. Which "host IP" is included in the binaries, and in which package? I reuse the same compile of client packages for all machines of the same architecture, just doing a make install. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |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/ iEYEARECAAYFAlC/f0QACgkQmb+gadEcsb7sdgCfXMW51IY+HpJjcKoyptpgBhYN aiEAoMMEdVWsdQlOFgqS7rZrzF4IjWTq =DfTi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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