February 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

checkwin
by bacaselo＠gmail.com 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Hey there, I just want to let you know that i've modified the checkwin agent in the Xymonton Monitors tab: http://xymonton.org/ Now this script works with the more powerfull check_nrpe nagios binary instead of the check_nt one. This script uses the nagios agent "NSClient++" that must be installed on the windows servers. Reason why I can't use BBWin: I needed a mechanism that allows Xymon to pull data from a windows machine and not a push mechanism like BBWin does. I've added the following features: cpu, disk, memory, uptime, services, procs, files, bbwin external script support. Todo in the near future: - event log check. - task scheduler check. best regards, B-Art

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BBWin 0.13
by ian.burrowes＠gmail.com 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Thanks Malcom, Your work (and Henrik's) is very much appreciated! Kind Regards, Ian

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BBWin 0.13
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi, By request, I've uploaded version 0.13 of the BBWin MSI to SourceForge. This is compiled from the current Subversion trunk (revision 238) - we've not tagged it yet. I just wanted to release it to the public - I know there are still unresolved issues, but the latest version does have some important fixes. Please use the bug reporting on SourceForge to raise any issues. Thanks, Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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File Monitor in Central Mode on WinXP
by paul＠shadowsoft.com 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Folks, I am using the filemonitor in bbwin in central mode. It finds the file if it is there but the NOEXIST does not work. I have the following in client-local: [nas] file:c:/publicdata/logs/shouldnotbehere.txt and I have the following in hobbit-clients: HOST=nas FILE "C:/Publicdata/Logs/shouldnotbehere.txt" NOEXIST color=red If the file exists it reports the file but nothing else. Please advise. Paul

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Odd behaviour with FILE test
by john.r.rothlisberger＠accenture.com 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Has anyone seen this happen before - First, my Xymon server is running on Ubuntu 10.04. Xymon version 4.3.0. I have 2 Windows 2003 SP2 servers in which I check a files modified time. On one of those servers the file checked returns a green indication as the file has been modified within the last 5 minutes. On the other it says it has not been updated in over 21,600+ seconds (just over the 6 hour mark). If I look at the data returned from both tests the time in seconds in virtually the same - both are actually off by about 6 hours. The time and time zone are set the same on both servers. The times are all consistent with the Xymon server. The files on both servers are no older then 5 minutes. So, why does one file test say it is off by 6 hours (UTC vs. CST)? Thanks, John _____________________________________________________________________ John Rothlisberger IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform TGP for Business Process Outsourcing Accenture 312.693.3136 office _____________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ Subject to local law, communications with Accenture and its affiliates including telephone calls and emails (including content), may be monitored by our systems for the purposes of security and the assessment of internal compliance with Accenture policy. ______________________________________________________________________________________ www.accenture.com

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Solaris memory
by lebarber＠gmail.com 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

I'm seeing results like this from some of my Solaris boxes: [image: green] Physical 4294914121M 1024M 4294962104% [image: red] Swap 896M 1023M 87% Has anybody run into this before, is there any way to fix it? Thanks, Larry Barber

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XyMon msg metric - how to check log entries only since last check?
by a.chervonets＠cominder.eu 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Is it possible to setup xymon to check log-file (msg metric) only for new entries since last check (or 5 min)? For now I see it is only possible to specify how much data in log-file xymon will parse. But, depending on activities it can be big or small - so the same bad entry can be reported for 2 or more check intervals and some (when quite much activities in log-file) can be missed. Really I do not realise how it can be implemented w/o writing timestamp tags to that log-file, but may be You know some secret? -- Best regards, Andrey Chervonets ------------------------- SIA CoMinder www:http://www.cominder.eu/

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Hobbit Server Summary Report
by yefee.liang＠gmail.com 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi, How do you go about getting a summary report of clients that a Hobbit server is monitoring and being reported. For example, 1. how many full clients are there (or how many is a hobbit server receiving data)? 2. how many client-less clients are there (no clients, only pings)? My ad-hoc/convoluted approach: # FULL clients are those sending data and updating netstat.rrd files: cd $HOME/data/rrd ls -t */netstat.rrd > file newer_files file TODAY > full_client_list # client-less are those with up-to-date tcp.conn.rrd files ls -t */tcp.conn.rrd > file newer_files file TODAY > all_active (full + client_less) client_less_list = all_active - full_client_list Thank you, Ye-fee

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