February 2012 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

SQL Server monitoring scripts
by Venkatesh_S04＠infosys.com 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hi All , Can you please share with me some simple custom scripts to monitor SQL Server ? Thanks for your help, Venky **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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some data isn't stored in RRDs unless --debug option used for rrd-data, rrd-status workers
by tomg＠mcclatchyinteractive.com 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Not sure if this is a bug or just something weird in our environment, but I've run into a situation where some bits of data aren't being stored in their RRD files, causing small & big gaps in the trend charts. However, if I add the --debug switch to the rrd-data and rrd-status workers in the tasks.cfg file, the problem seems goes away. Has anyone else observed this? I'm running xymon 4.37, rrdtool-1.2.27, and the OS is centos 5.7 with kernel 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5PAE. I'll be glad to provide more details, back traces, etc. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Tom

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[Xymon-developer] PATCH: RRD Graph Colours
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk > Sent: 02/15/12 01:43 PM > To: Malcolm Hunter > Subject: Re: [Xymon-developer] PATCH: RRD Graph Colours > > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:35:46 +0100, <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > > So how about this patch instead ? Untested, but it compiles and should > be > > simple enough to "just work". You can either put the rrd_graph() options > in > > RRDGRAPHOPTS in xymonserver.cfg, or provide an OPTIONS line in the > > graphs.cfg file for each graph. The per-graph setting takes precedence. > > Small correction: It's "GRAPHOPTIONS" in graphs.cfg. And I tested it now, > it works. Excellent! This is a much better way of doing it. Thanks, Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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Integrating tools with Xymon
by Sunita_Singh＠infosys.com 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hi Team, Can you help us on how we can integrate below tools with xymon: 1. Plancap - Have been able to add it to the xymon menu. But would like to include it in the Main View as well. 2. Ora_explain - How to integrate it under Menu or on the Main View since it requires X Window. Thanks in advance. Thanks and Regards, Sunita Singh Infosys Australia & New Zealand Phn : +613 9860 2279 Mob: +614 2939 5569 **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS***

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bbhostgrep --no-down and dialup hosts
by sjcarr＠gmail.com 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hi list, Not sure if this has been asked before but I couldn't find anything in the archives and there is nothing in the MAN page... We're running 4.2.3 so I'll be speaking in old hobbit filenames. We have a number of development servers that we want to monitor when they are online, but it is not essential that they are always online, so they are flagged with the "dialup" flag in bb-hosts. We have some external scripts which use bbhostgrep to poll bb-hosts to determine which hosts to run the tests on. This is fine when they are online, but when a dialup host goes offline it's status goes "clear". "bbhostgrep --no-down" seems to include "clear" conn hosts in the list of hosts to test so the test still get attempted against a host which is now no longer online. Without having to code in extra ping checks into our scripts am I missing something? or is this a bug. I would have expected "bbhostgrep --no-down" to return only non-RED conn hosts. Thanks Steve

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Clients fail to show up in monitor
by sanderson＠CORNETSER.com 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Has anyone seen this before? Client does not move from Ghost Client to normal views and no data is recorded Background INFO: XYMON Ver 4.3.5 Client XP, BBWin_0.12 I have a systems not showing any data, all test show up as "-" . I do see the client in Ghost Clients and it shows beside it in the "Candidate" side the system I placed in the host.cfg file so it does look to be matching but it never locks on. Just remains in GhostClients. No data is collected in the /data areas and I am not seeing any logs in hostd.log that may say why it is not latching on to the client. Here is the different views and corresponding data. As you can see the name is correctly spelled for both client and host.cfg, Ghost view: lindenpark.finesarealestategroup.com 68.33.39.211 lindenpark.finesarealestategroup.com 1:15 Host.cfg: 68.33.39.211 lindenpark.finesarealestategroup.com # noconn COMMENT:"Backoffice XP at Linden Park" Web Page: lindenpark.finesarealestategroup.com - - - - - - - - - - -

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PATCH: RRD Graph Colours
by malcolm.hunter＠gmx.com 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi, Attached is a patch that allows users to customise the colour of the RRD graphs (default is black on white). To change colours (e.g. to white on black), add the following to xymonserver.cfg: RRDFONTCOLOR="#FFFFFF" RRDBACKCOLOR="#000000" Regards, Malcolm -- BBWin Development - The Windows client for Big Brother and Xymon http://bbwin.sourceforge.net http://xymon.sourceforge.net

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Xymon client only reports once
by mark＠carnildo.com 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

I've installed Xymon on my home network as testing for a possible installation at work. It's working fine on three out of the four systems, but on the fourth, the client only reports its status to the server once, immediately after being started. The problem computer is a Pentium MMX with 48MB RAM, running Gentoo Linux. It looks as if the client is getting hung in the process of sending the second report: "ps aux" shows a sleeping "xymonlaunch" process, and the XYMONTMP directory contains a "xymon_vmstat" file with a timestamp five minutes after the successful update. I could probably work around this with cron job to restart the client every five minutes, but I'd rather fix it properly. Any suggestions on what might be going wrong, or other things I could look at? Thanks, Mark Wagner

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Broken custom graphs in trends
by jlaidman＠rebel-it.com.au 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi all I'm getting some broken "extra" graphs in my trends page and not sure if I've done something wrong or if it's a bug. I'm running v4.3.3 of Xymon on Linux. I've successfully implemented a collector for BIND DNS statistics that injects the data into Xymon using a "TRENDS" message, as detailed in the last section of http://xymon.com/xymon/help/howtograph.html. I have the RRD files being created with valid data, one with multiple DSes, others with a single DS named "lambda". My graphs.cfg file has valid descriptions for things like [bindstats-mismatch] (showing responses with mismatched query IDs). I've deliberately avoided using the existing name "bind". As per the documentation, I appended ",bindstats" to the end of the "GRAPHS and TEST2RRD" values in xymonserver.cfg. I also added "TRENDS:*,bindstats:bindstats|bindstats-breakdown|bindstats-mismatch" in hosts.cfg, so that I get all 3 graphs in the trends page. All three are defined in graphs.cfg, with two using "FNPATTERN" and the other explicitly naming the files. My trends page shows the three graphs I've defined. But it also shows three more broken graphs after each functioning one. The IMG URI for all four appears identical except for the "first=" value. The first graph has in its URL "first=1", the second shows "first=4", the third shows "first=7" and the last shows "first=10". All of them have "count=3" in the URI. It seems like this is designed to show a multi-graph with many data sets, split into several groups of 3. But as there's only one data set, there's nothing to show for "first=4" (and subsequent graphs) and so rrgraph bails. Can anyone suggest something I've missed or a way to get this to only show one of each graph on the trends page? Cheers Jeremy

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dispinclude and 4.3.7
by lebarber＠gmail.com 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

I recently started using 4.3.7 and have discovered that the dispinclude directive in hosts.cfg doesn't appear to be working. I had to change all the dispinclude's to plain include's before any of my custom page sets would show up. Thanks, Larry Barber

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