February 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Multiple host alerts grouped in one email ?
by kconnell＠ryerson.ca 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Can I group multiple alerts that happen at the same time for different hosts into one email ? Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709

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client compile error on 4.3.7
by info＠martenvijn.nl 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi! regarding http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2011-July/032087.html both: - export LIBRTDEF=-lrt - locator.o in lib/Makefile Seem not being fixed in 4.3.7 or is fixed in another version? With those fixes I can build the client. kind regards, Marten

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Logged events
by indymichaelb＠gmail.com 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

I've done something and now xymon always reports no events logged on the "all none green" page , even though tests are failing and recovering as recently as a few minute ago. This might have started on the day I ran my first trimhistory command, but can't be sure about that. I can still see the history of events in /var/lib/xymon/histlogs Any suggestions on how I might troubleshoot this issue?

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Displaying thresholds for a group of hosts
by greg.shea＠emc.com 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi all, I'm looking for ideas on a more detailed view of a hosts thresholds other than from confreport.cgi. I'm being asked to provide threshold information for each host on a given page and right now it's all manual. I don't think I'm missing anything in the man pages. Anyone doing something similar? Thanks Greg Shea EMC Corporation For example: PAGE=%^Leporp.* UP 30m 365d CLASS=win32 LOAD 25.0 30.0 DISK "%^/apps/.*|^/usr.*|^/oracle.*|^/sap.*" 102 102 MEMSWAP 97 98 MEMACT 98 99 ... ... # default Windows uptime running in central mode. CLASS=win32 UP 30m 90d LOAD 95 99 DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 30m LOAD 8.0 10.0 DISK "%^/mnt.*|^/cdrom.*|^/old.*|^/new.*|^/xcpy.*|^/ISO.*|^/tmpapp.*|^/ew03.*|^/ew04.*|^/old_app.*" 102 102 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 101 102 MEMSWAP 95 97 MEMACT 96 98 Sample of a single host from configreport.cgi Local tests Service Critical C/Y/R limits Configuration (NB: Thresholds on client may differ) cpu No -/-/- UNIX - Yellow: Load average > 1.5, Red: Load average > 3.0 Windows - Yellow: CPU utilisation > 80%, Red: CPU utilisation > 95% disk No -/-/- Default limits: Yellow 90% full, Red 95% full /D /V /E /S /C /W memory No -/-/- Yellow: swap/pagefile use > 80%, Red: swap/pagefile use > 90% msgs No -/-/- netstat No -/-/- procs No -/-/- No processes monitored svcs No -/-/-

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Yellow->red escalation, bug or feature?
by betsy.schwartz＠gmail.com 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

I think this is a bug, but maybe it's a feature I haven't figured out yet: Many of our alerts are set to email on yellow and page with escalation on red: alert1 after 10 minutes (repeat every 10), alert2 after 20 minutes , alert3 after 40 minutes, alert4 after an hour. When an alert is yellow, it sometimes sits around for a while. When an alert goes red, the alert1 person acks or fixes the alert and the alert4 person should never be woken up. However, when an alert has been yellow for over an hour and *then* turns red, we are seeing that the entire escalation group is paged, as though the alert has been red for over an hour. I think this is a bug - when the alert first goes red it should be treated as a NEW alert and not go waking up everyone. Thoughts? Am I missing something? Our tier4 person is getting rather annoyed at being woken up for things that the tier1 person can handle. thanks Betsy

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BBWin Charts on XYMON
by gbegin＠csc.com 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hello, I'm using BBWin 0.12 on my Windows Servers that communicate with a XYMON 4.3.0.0 beta2 server, and generally, it's working fine. But recently, I installed BBWin on new machines . All is working fine except that I can't get CPU a Memory RRD charts. Other charts (conn and disks) are ok. - Correct data are displayed on the web window. - I checked data work flow in channel and seems to be OK. - I checked RRD files and data are put in them but in a wrong way (data are to low to be real); Exemple: vh-hobbit0.root:/project/hobbit0/bin> $RRDTOOL fetch /project/hobbit0/refer/xymon-4.3.0b2/data/rrd/LUCAIWV730/memory.real.rrd AVERAGE -s 1328517300 realmempct 1328517600: 4.8828751153e-31 1328517900: 4.8828751153e-31 1328518200: 4.8828751153e-31 1328518500: 4.8828751153e-31 1328518800: 4.8828751153e-31 1328519100: 4.8828751153e-31 1328519400: 4.8828751153e-31 1328519700: 4.8828751153e-31 1328520000: 4.8828751153e-31 1328520300: 4.8828751153e-31 1328520600: 4.8828751153e-31 1328520900: 4.8828751153e-31 1328521200: 4.8828751153e-31 1328521500: 4.8828751153e-31 1328521800: 4.8828751153e-31 1328522100: 4.8828751153e-31 1328522400: 4.8828751153e-31 1328522700: NaN 1328523000: NaN 1328523300: NaN How to diagnose and solve my issue? Cordialement, Regards,Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Gautier BEGIN Admin and Tools Team CSC Computer Sciences Luxembourg S.A. 12D Impasse Drosbach L-1882 Luxembourg Global Outsourcing Service | p:+352 24 834 276 | m:+352 621 229 172 | gbegin at csc.com | www.csc.com CSC • This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose • CSC Computer Sciences SAS • Registered Office: Immeuble Le Balzac, 10 Place des Vosges, 92072 Paris La Défense Cedex, France • Registered in France: RCS Nanterre B 315 268 664

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bbwin central mode does not generate clock.rrd
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Pfister > Sent: 02/04/12 03:44 AM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] bbwin central mode does not generate clock.rrd > > Is there a way to get the clock.rrd generated from a bbwin client (.12 or > .13) running in central mode? The client reports clock, but xymon doesn't > generate clock.rrd like it does for a linux or unix host. It would be nice > to graph the clock offset for windows hosts too. > > Clock output from bbwin in central mode: > > [clock] > epoch: 1328326750 > local: Fri Feb 03 22:39:10 2012 > UTC: Sat Feb 04 03:39:10 2012 > > Clock output linux client > > [clock] > epoch: 1328326887.763926 > local: 2012-02-03 22:41:27 EST > UTC: 2012-02-04 03:41:27 GMT This is a BBWin issue, please could you raise it as a bug on the BBWin SourceForge site? Thanks, Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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bbwin central mode does not generate clock.rrd
by icepickjazz＠gmail.com 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Is there a way to get the clock.rrd generated from a bbwin client (.12 or .13) running in central mode? The client reports clock, but xymon doesn't generate clock.rrd like it does for a linux or unix host. It would be nice to graph the clock offset for windows hosts too. Clock output from bbwin in central mode: [clock] epoch: 1328326750 local: Fri Feb 03 22:39:10 2012 UTC: Sat Feb 04 03:39:10 2012 Clock output linux client [clock] epoch: 1328326887.763926 local: 2012-02-03 22:41:27 EST UTC: 2012-02-04 03:41:27 GMT Thanks,

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testing group owner on a file
by sholmes42＠mac.com 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

[Note: still running 4.2.3] I have a file definition: FILE /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail GROUP:51 yellow for our Linux servers. However, it seems to not be working. On several hosts the file data looks like: [file:/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail] type:100000 (file) mode:2755 (-rwxr-sr-x) linkcount:1 owner:0 (root) group:25 (smmsp) size:806460 clock:1328201361 (2012/02/02-11:49:21) atime:1328201173 (2012/02/02-11:46:13) ctime:1316579762 (2011/09/21-00:36:02) mtime:1311839803 (2011/07/28-03:56:43) Which I think should throw a warning. At one point I tried GROUPID=51, but that didn't work either and failed even worse by complaining that the group owner should be "D=51", so it appears to just be looking for the keyword GROUP and then skipping the next character and using the remainder of the string for the id (numeric or symbolic). But, still, it isn't complaining about the group id being 25 when we want it to be 51. Why doesn't it work as expected? Thanks, Steve

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disable flapping host
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Hi ! Is it possible to disable flapping-alert via xymond for one special host or special test ? thanks & cheers Martin

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