February 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Xymond and xymonnet quirks
by poppy.ben＠marshfieldclinic.org 02 May '12

02 May '12

After getting the latest Xymon 4.3.4 finally working on CentOS 6 64-bit, I'm seeing a few quirks that I'd appreciate some input on. First, under Xymonnet tests, it's alerting Yellow because the time spent is too long (over 300). The culprit is DNS tests executed taking over 340 itself.. Can anyone shed some light on this? I know I saw some other threads about putting in a --no-ares but I wanted to see if there was something else I might be missing before I change the functionality of the tests.. Next, under Xymond, I'm getting a ton of multiple statuses reports for CONN tests. I can't seem to find a clear archive of what would cause that other than having both IP's listed when you have 2 display servers.. Both servers reference each other as a client and in xymonserver.cfg.. Thanks for any help, -Ben ______________________________________________________________________ The contents of this message may contain private, protected and/or privileged information. If you received this message in error, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained within. Please contact the sender and advise of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail or telephone. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Forbidden : You don't have permission to access /xymon/index.html on this server.
by jayantak007＠gmail.com 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hi, I install xymon collector server and agent in the same machine. Apache server is running in the same server. Now I start collector server and agent both. After that I am trying to open web page with: http://19x.xxx.xxx.xxx/xymon/index.html I am getting following error: *Forbidden* You don't have permission to access /xymon/index.html on this server. ------------------------------ *Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at 19x.xxx.xxx.xxx Port 80* Kindly let me know how can I resolved this problem? With Regards, Jayanta.

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Xymon Internal Server Error
by kapildev.khemraj.1＠bc.edu 06 Apr '12

06 Apr '12

Greetings all, I have Xymon 4.3.5 running on redhat 5. It has been working fine for quite some time. Around 3am this morning, the webpages display "internal Server error". I looked at the apache logs and Xymon logs and do not see anything that is wrong or that could be causing this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kapildev Khemraj

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xymon blank alert emails
by nc.sonal＠gmail.com 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi Team. I am writing to regarding an facing issue which we are facing after configuring xymon XYMON is working fine and alerts are getting displayed , but the same are being sent in email but subject, body is blank as given in end of email I have given alerts.cfg as below. * * *HOST=* SERVICE=ssh,disk,msg,sap_r3,oratns COLOR=red DURATION>2m* *SCRIPT /home/sapxymon/server/etc/custom_alert.sh REPEAT=1m* . Wheres the custom_alerts.sh give below syntax error. #----------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh BBALPHAMSG=`echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | /home/sapxymon/server/ext/custom_grep.pl`;export BBALPHAMSG if [ $RECOVERED -eq 1 ] then RECOVERED="recovered" else RECOVERED="" fi #echo "${BBALPHAMSG:0:9999}" > /tmp/manalerts.txt echo "${BBALPHAMSG:0:9999}" | mail -s "$BBHOSTNAME $BBSVCNAME - $BBCOLORLEVEL $ACKCODE $RECOVERED $DOWNSECSMSG"nc.sonal at gmail.com #----------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl # searching for lines which has "&red" while (<>) { @matches=/&red .*\s/ig; foreach $_ (@matches) { s/<.*?>//ig; # removing all the html tags print "$_ "; } } #----------------------------------------------------- Could you please suggest what could be the issue? *---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SAP-XY-MON <sapxymon at sasapmon.sasrv.biz> Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:00 PM Subject: - To: nc.sonal at gmail.com * -- Thanks & Regards Sonal kumar N C

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List of graphs of a devmon test is too long
by Wim.Nelis＠nlr.nl 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

Hello, we are using xymon 4.3.7 and devmon 0.3.1-beta1, r233. Some of the devmon tests on interfaces of switches and routers use the rrd collector of xymon. Those tests contain thus both a table and additionally one graph per interface. However, for *each* test using the devmon rrd collector there are three additional pointers to non-existing graphs. The number of additional non-existing graphs is thus independent of the number of interfaces being monitored. The following is the page source of a test to check for packet drops on 3 interfaces of a router: <TR><TD ALIGN=LEFT><H3> Thu 2012.02.23 10:58:22</H3> <PRE> <b>Interface discards:</b> Input discard load alert thresholds: yellow=5.0%, red=10.0% Output discard load alert thresholds: yellow=5.0%, red=10.0% <table border=1 cellpadding=5> <tr><th>If name</th><th>Packet rate in</th> ... </tr> <tr><td>eth0</td><td>10.55</td> ... </tr> <tr><td>eth1</td><td>18.05</td> ... </tr> <tr><td>eth2</td><td>0.00</td> ... </tr> <tr><td>wlan0</td><td>4.37</td> ... </tr> </table>  Note: Discard rate: Number of discards per second Discard load: Number of discards per packet Devmon version 0.3.1-beta1-r233 running on sodn164u </PRE> </TD></TR></TABLE> <br><br> <table align="center" border=0 summary="Status report info"> <tr><td align="center"><font COLOR="#87a9e5" SIZE="-1">Status unchanged in 6 days,21 hours, 2 minutes<br> Status message received from 137.17.28.26<br> </font></td></tr> </table>  <table summary="devmon:if_dsc Graph"><tr><td><A HREF="/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=1&count=1 ... <view-source:http://xymon.nlr.nl/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=1&count=1&disp=AChinook%2dnet&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1329818379&graph_end=1329991179&action=menu></table> <table summary="devmon:if_dsc Graph"><tr><td><A HREF="/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=2&count=1 ... <view-source:http://xymon.nlr.nl/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=2&count=1&disp=AChinook%2dnet&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1329818379&graph_end=1329991179&action=menu></table> <table summary="devmon:if_dsc Graph"><tr><td><A HREF="/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=3&count=1 ... </table> <view-source:http://xymon.nlr.nl/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=3&count=1&disp=AChinook%2dnet&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1329818379&graph_end=1329991179&action=menu> <table summary="devmon:if_dsc Graph"><tr><td><A HREF="/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=4&count=1 ... <view-source:http://xymon.nlr.nl/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=4&count=1&disp=AChinook%2dnet&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1329818379&graph_end=1329991179&action=menu></table> <table summary="devmon:if_dsc Graph"><tr><td><A HREF="/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=5&count=1 ... <view-source:http://xymon.nlr.nl/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=5&count=1&disp=AChinook%2dnet&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1329818379&graph_end=1329991179&action=menu></table> <table summary="devmon:if_dsc Graph"><tr><td><A HREF="/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=6&count=1 ... </table> <view-source:http://xymon.nlr.nl/xymon-cgi/showgraph.sh?host=nlrcve02-lan&service=devmon:if_dsc&graph_width=576&graph_height=120&first=6&count=1&disp=AChinook%2dnet&nostale&color=green&graph_start=1329818379&graph_end=1329991179&action=menu> The (very) long lines have been truncated, at the "...", to enhance the readability. In subdirectory ~xymon/data/rrd/nlrcve02-lan there are 3 RRDs, not 6. How xymon does determine the linecount, 6 in the example above, is not clear to me. However, it is the number of lines in the HTML comment section containing the RRD data, which is always 3 more than the number of interfaces. How can I configure xymon in such a way that the number of graphs matches the number of interfaces? Kind regards, Wim Nelis. ****************************************************************************************************************** The NLR disclaimer is valid for NLR e-mail messages. This message is only meant for providing information. Nothing in this e-mail message amounts to a contractual or legal commitment on the part of the sender. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. 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[hobbit] Help: No graphs in xymon
by t.koerfer＠gevasys.de 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

For me it looks like a bug (typo) in hobbitgraph.cgi I changed the "nostale" to "noscale" (because I saw it some where else) and it works. But it works also if you remove the "nostale" parameter ... b.r. T.K.

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fetch error - dbcheck.pl
by marco.avvisano＠regione.toscana.it 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Hi, I'm migrating to redhat Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago) (64). The query is done correctly (tablespace) but the values continues to fetch until it finds an empty table. On the new server i get this message: fbh 6: 'maxsize' NULLable, type -5, 20, dsize 19, p0 s18965564 out: ftype 1, indp 0, bufl 81, rlen 81 <- prepare= ( DBI::st=HASH(0xba2c30) ) [1 items] at Hobbit_fd_lib.pm line 1089 via at dbcheck.pl line 1356 -> execute for DBD::DB2::st (DBI::st=HASH(0xba2c30)~0x107fd20) <- execute= ( -1 ) [1 items] at Hobbit_fd_lib.pm line 1093 via at Hobbit_fd_lib.pm line 1090 -> fetchall_arrayref in DBD::_::st for DBD::DB2::st (DBI::st=HASH(0xba2c30)~0x107fd20 HASH(0x1080260)) 2<- FETCH= ( [ 'name' 'size' 'free' 'used' 'usedpct' 'autoextend' 'maxsize' ] ) [1 items] at DBI.pm line 2043 via at Hobbit_fd_lib.pm line 1099 dbd_st_fetch 7 fields 0: rc=0 'SYSCATSPACE' 1: rc=0 '745013248' 2: rc=0 '142999552' 3: rc=0 '602013696' 4: rc=0 '80.80' 5: rc=0 '1' 6: rc=0 '-1' (..) 2<> FETCH= ( [ 'name' 'size' 'free' 'used' 'usedpct' 'autoextend' 'maxsize' ] ) [1 items] ('NAME' from cache) at DBI.pm li ne 2043 via at Hobbit_fd_lib.pm line 1099 !! info: '' '[IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/AIX64] SQL0100W No row was found for FETCH, UPDATE or DELETE; or the result of a quer y is an empty table. SQLSTATE=02000 ' (err#0) --------------- Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux uname='linux my.server 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 smp mon jun 20 14:15:38 edt 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-de -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/opt/perl5' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat 4.4.5-6)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/../lib64 /usr/lib/../lib64 /lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64 libs=-lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.12.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.12' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF Built under linux Compiled at Sep 15 2011 10:39:35 @INC: /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.12.4/x86_64-linux /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.12.4 /opt/perl5/lib/5.12.4/x86_64-linux /opt/perl5/lib/5.12.4 ---------------------- Program Information dbcheck.pl version 1.08 Hobbit_fd_lib.pm version 1.15 OS Information Linux my.server 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 14:15:38 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Perl version is v5.12.4 Module Information FindBin 1.50 POSIX 1.19 Text::Wrap 2009.0305 Sys::SigAction 0.15 Config::IniFiles 2.68 DBI 1.616 DBD::DB2 1.81 DBD::DBM 0.06 DBD::ExampleP 12.014310 DBD::File 0.40 DBD::Gofer 0.014282 DBD::SQLite 1.33 DBD::Sponge 12.010002 DBD::mysql 4.020 ----------------- Anyone have simular problem? Thanks for help Marco

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graphs customising
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Oliver > Sent: 02/29/12 02:58 PM > To: Malcolm Hunter > Subject: Re: [Xymon] graphs customising > > Hi Malcom, > > I use 4.3.0~beta2 version of xymon, installed by apt-get so not compiled from source. You may have to wait until it's available for Debian packages and you can upgrade then. I don't think there's any way to do what you want otherwise. Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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Setting Test status based on emails
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

And copy to the list, because replies don't by default. Ralph Mitchell ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> Date: Feb 24, 2012 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [Xymon] Setting Test status based on emails To: "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> If your xymon server can receive email, you can set up an alias that pipes through a shell script, then send status messages to it. I've done something like that, but I don't have an example on hand. Ralph Mitchell On Feb 24, 2012 7:34 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote: > Does anyone have a working example of a script which pulls emails from a > specified account and uses that data to set the status of a given test? > I have seen people talk about doing that and am looking for a little > guidance in setting that up. > > Thanks, > Bruce > > > > Bruce White > Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 1-630-671-5169 | Fax: > 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ > > > > Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged > and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this > message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible > for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this > communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the > message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon >

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graphs customising
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Oliver > Sent: 02/29/12 01:12 PM > To: xymon at xymon.com > Subject: [Xymon] graphs customising > > Hi all, > > I have been trying to modify the default look of the graphs generated by xymon without any success. I have tried to play with hobbitgraphs.cfg, changed few things but it sill does not want to generate better looking graphs. > > I have seen many nice graphs generated by RRD but can't make it work with xymon. > > Do anyone knows about any decent tutorial somewhere online? What version of Xymon are you running? Are you compiling from source? If so, there is a patch available to allow you to use RRD command-line parameters. Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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